Example sentences of "and [verb] back to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owen drew breath and plunged back to the little group , still hemmed into a few yards of the pathway . |
| 2 | Not only was she a founder of Playschool , and responsible for commissioning Postman Pat , Bertha the Big Machine and Charlie Chalk for the BBC ; but when Playschool came under threat she formed her own independent production company to make — and sell back to the BBC — a modern replacement for it : the current Playdays ( first known as Playbus ) . |
| 3 | Now , this is not an Oxford cartoon either , but it 's a looting soldier , and very much , I think , underlines what people felt about soldiers around the place , and to go back to the overcrowding , erm the great problem was that constantly not only soldiers , but a great many other people , court officials , court servants , barbers , whoever , erm all had to found accommodation , and because St Aldate 's was so near the court , a great many of them were of course connected with the court , they had some high ranking ones . |
| 4 | This central role for private property has a long history in European thought and goes back to the eighteenth-century notion of the social contract . |
| 5 | Howard escapes from the hospital and goes back to the scene of the robbery where everything is strangely familiar . |
| 6 | She turns and goes back to the house . |
| 7 | She loses interest and goes back to the television . |
| 8 | If there are no more loans to be entered , the user presses the RETURN key and goes back to the options list . |
| 9 | Return to pan , stir in the Madeira , season and bring back to the boil . |
| 10 | Cornelius slammed down the receiver and stalked back to the car . |
| 11 | She slapped a handful of cold cream on her face and tissued off the exaggerated make-up she 'd worn for the showing , pulled her hair back into a ponytail , laced on her canvas sneakers , and stalked back to the showroom where Raimondo was hovering over a glowering Nicolo . |
| 12 | Sweden is the latest country to suffer from criminals fiddling with mobile phones to re-direct bills — thousands of phones were stolen , altered and sold back to the market as ‘ no charge phones ’ : 10 people have been arrested so far for the crime , which came to light when some subscribers reported bills of $70,000 more than they were expecting ; police said that some of the men arrested were associated with the the Swedish state phone company Televerket and L M Ericsson Telefon AB , Reuter reports from Stockholm . |
| 13 | If streets are to be seized from the dominance of ‘ canned ’ humans and given back to the ‘ fresh ’ ones , a commitment to a positive policy of encouraging walking throughout the city is inescapable . |
| 14 | Sara mounted her bicycle and rode back to the cottage . |
| 15 | The leaders turned and rode back to the inferno of a village . |
| 16 | There must be adequate and timely arrangements for the operating experience on other PWR plants to be collected , analysed and passed back to the operators with any necessary retraining . |
| 17 | Halfway through cockpit checks the crew decided that the aircraft was unserviceable , so they all got out and tramped back to the Squadron offices . |
| 18 | Crack of dawn after a long night … made himself coffee and got back to the station as the car was disappearing from view . |
| 19 | Chinless looked up again and got back to the driver 's seat and headed east . |
| 20 | But by the time the police had secured the exemption and got back to the brothel , the keeper would have changed his nationality and they would have to start all over again . |
| 21 | And I started another one and I said no I wo n't be able to this and got back to the other one and did the other one . . |
| 22 | Members of the committee visited the institution in rotation and reported back to the full committee . |
| 23 | Then one afternoon Louise Raymond visited Len Seager in hospital and reported back to the rest of the team . |
| 24 | You have two options , you either accept that or you reject it , and send back to the people involved saying this is not completed . |
| 25 | So Moely turned , and swam back to the shore as quickly as he could . |
| 26 | She said nothing , but instead left the two young people by the window and moved back to the duty manager 's desk . |
| 27 | He slipped a clean fork quietly on Nicandra 's right hand and moved back to the sideboard , the rhubarb fool and the junket , in his perfect colourless way . |
| 28 | They saw him start and jump back to the shelter of the bank . |
| 29 | She should have ticked off Miss Vine 's name on her list and been ready to carry the empty plates and covers back to the van . |
| 30 | I 've had enough of the lights , so we turn round and head back to the house . |