Example sentences of "back to [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the quality of lateral communications , which may enable subordinates to get jobs done without constant reference back to their superior ; |
| 2 | At the same time , the LRDG would be watching the road , counting traffic and signalling the intelligence back to their base . |
| 3 | The chief investigators here were E. D. Cope and O. C. Marsh , rivals in the manner of robber barons , chartering trains and suborning each other 's assistants in an effort to get the spoils back to their base first . |
| 4 | The Buccaneers flew back to their base at RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland . |
| 5 | For the first time in this long climb back to their fortune he began to feel a sort of panic . |
| 6 | Lloyds may be the only bank turning up its nose at the dollar bill , but the others are n't wild about some large-denomination European notes which often have to be shipped back to their country of origin rather than recycled through the system . |
| 7 | A short sojourn by the seaside , back to their country farm , back to the hospital , and then the end . |
| 8 | The fact is that we give exceptional leave to remain because it would be inhumane to send some people , such as the Croatian that the hon. Member mentioned , back to their country at this time , even though they may not have made a claim of persecution . |
| 9 | The trio , who all play for FK Austria in Vienna , have not been allowed to travel back to their country . |
| 10 | The trio , who all play for FK Austria in Vienna , have not been allowed to travel back to their country . |
| 11 | They darted back to their bunk and behind him was the sound of ripping paper . |
| 12 | Twenty thousand Ski Americans going back to their valley farms , after an evening infected with urban sleaze . |
| 13 | Oh , the dawn when shadows skeeter ahead of the sure fluid sunlight , back to their night . |
| 14 | Even moving from high to low cost areas can raise difficulties — employees may doubt that they will ever be able to move back to their home areas or other more expensive regions once they have committed themselves to living in a lower cost housing area . |
| 15 | The aim was that they might go back to their home territories " further equipped in mind and spirit for the tasks to which they are appointed " . |
| 16 | Alison Santos of Madryn Street , Toxteth , and her family are living with a neighbour because they are too terrified to go back to their home . |
| 17 | After Mr Kennedy had been taken back to their villa by his wife , Shelley entered the details of the case into a file , and wondered if she need take any further action . |
| 18 | When he and Johnson got back to their inn , Boswell ‘ begged permission to leave him for a little while , that I might run about and pay some short visits to several good people of Inverness ’ . |
| 19 | The two who had been talking to me went with the others back to their vehicle . |
| 20 | He nodded , and then they were both moving back to their vehicle , the Indian drifting light-footed into the back . |
| 21 | She had to cross the road again to get back to their apartment ; now that her eyes were used to the darkness it seemed as bright as day out of doors , and her blue cotton dress incandescent white . |
| 22 | Oblivious to her injuries , Thomas Duke would have carried his daughter back to their cottage in his arms , though it is conceivable that she was carried on an old door or something . |
| 23 | She gave him a lift back to their cottage in Tetbury . |
| 24 | The hunters failed to find Ralph and they returned back to their fort . |
| 25 | Using staining techniques and toxins that specifically destroy individual nerve cells , neuroscientists have been able to trace the pathway of nerves that send acetylcholine signals in the higher cortex back to their origin , a small region of the forebrain known as the nucleus basalis of Meynert . |
| 26 | In general however , women were sent back to their music and their embroidery and were told to be submissive . |
| 27 | Khaur and Danjit simply propelled her — Jezrael could hardly walk , so massive was her state of shock — out of the wintry night fields and back to their depot , leaving Ember 's body lonely in the cold . |
| 28 | Unaware that these were the last rites of disco , the aliens reported back to their Mistress ruler on the home planet . |
| 29 | The pros play in the par-three for fun , to give something back to their public in return for the millions of dollars they earn from golf . |
| 30 | But when he and his family got back to their cabin they seemed upset because we had gone to so much trouble . ’ |