Example sentences of "a [noun] back to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some bizarre quirk led Newman to take a route back to London past the bell tower where Sandy had died . |
| 2 | Resistance to the price rise resulted in a reduction back to 6d in 1933 ! |
| 3 | Mann , though in possession of an official permit to hold meetings on trade unionism in Hamburg , was nevertheless put on a boat back to England ; on returning six weeks later , he was again expelled and various activists served short periods in prison . |
| 4 | This was followed by a lurch back to civility and a fast-knotted signature , hard to unravel . |
| 5 | She switches between spoken word , shouting through a megaphone with a sock in it and chirruping like a sweet but overexcitable nightingale , tracing a lineage back to Delta 5 , The Raincoats and The Slits ( marvellous days I can assure you ) . |
| 6 | Mike , 55 and a veteran reporter of Vietnam , the Falklands , the Gulf and many other bloody wars , was encouraged by orphanage officials to smuggle a child back to England — and there was no way he could resist Natasha 's pleading brown eyes . |
| 7 | Claire talks herself out and an hour later Keith gets a minicab back to Finsbury Park . |
| 8 | This was because it amounted to a transfer back to X of property in the car ( because Y 's cheque had not been met ) in return for X waiving any right to enforce payment from Y. At the time of the repossession , X was unaware of Y's sale to Z and thus by repossessing the car with Y 's acquiescence , X obtained ownership of it by virtue of section 25(1) of the 1893 Act ( i.e. section 24 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 ) . |
| 9 | Sukemi applied for a transfer back to Java and was sent to Surabaya , a major port . |
| 10 | Ten stations receiving new boats in the past year had meant ten crews undergoing week-long familiarisation courses at Poole , followed by a passage back to station . |
| 11 | Though Kent has established a career path , it does not exclude a move back to service provision . |
| 12 | The Blues boss dismissed weekend speculation linking Mo Johnston with a move back to Scotland . |
| 13 | That meant a long walk and a hitch back to Capel Curig if there was any chance of making the pub before closing time . |
| 14 | There was a drift back to work . |
| 15 | We brought a smile back to Wearside . ’ |
| 16 | Emily took a cab back to Mrs Simons 's house and went directly to her room . |
| 17 | He would then work until approximately 6.00 or 6.30 , and if there was no social or literary event he felt obliged to attend , would take a taxi back to Carlyle Mansions . |
| 18 | After a photographic session near the Palace Gates I was just about at the end of my tether and was thankful to catch a taxi back to Liverpool Street Station and home . |
| 19 | In the main square in Rashid we caught a taxi back to Alexandria . |
| 20 | I would have to take a taxi back to Sligo once I had seen the sights , for there was no return bus . |
| 21 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
| 22 | There was another advantage late on a lunch-time in that there were always a few city slickers who had ventured north by north-west ( of the Barbican ) to try the Hoskin 's or the Holden 's bitter and found it had got the better of them , so needed a taxi back to civilization . |
| 23 | Let down , their elation leaking away , they had decided to give up , and taken a taxi back to Alice 's mother 's house , where Alice made them both coffee and scrambled eggs . |
| 24 | The vintage car of the title is driven by a married duo who bicker , moan and make love all the way to Brighton , then challenge a less permanent couple to a race back to London . |
| 25 | I knew it would be a race back to Stuart Street and I was pleased that it ended in an honourable draw . |
| 26 | ‘ In my room , I found new papers and a ticket back to Paris for the next day . |
| 27 | The next day he was released on police bail and given a ticket back to Glasgow . |
| 28 | As well as being profitable and actually paying a dividend back to Detroit for the first time in years , Vauxhall is an important part of the GM empire for political reasons . |
| 29 | I 'll offer them a pathway back to life . |
| 30 | But then avowed with a great deal of feeling , ‘ I sorely needed somebody 's help when , with daylight I returned to that hotel and discovered you 'd taken a train back to Mariánské Láznë ! ’ |