Example sentences of "back to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lithe vessel left a white wake that stretched all the way back to the long iron and glass walkway of the railway terminal , a thin cord of foam linking the crowded paddle-steamer to a solid world of steam trains , corner shops , and utility furniture . |
| 2 | Lucy was also aware that Doreen 's previous anger appeared to have vanished as she carried refilled plates back to the long table , where she chatted and laughed with the men and the two guides . |
| 3 | Impact You thin from this position because you are trying to transfer all your weight back to the right side at impact . |
| 4 | They met for the first time at the weekend as their two-week-old girls were swopped and handed back to the right mothers . |
| 5 | On knitting back to the right hand side , the loops into fully formed stitches , as this is a repeated row . |
| 6 | At the present time we correct the condition by surgery — pushing the displaced organ back to the right side and tacking it there with sutures . |
| 7 | It saw itself in a paternalistic role in relation to them , seeking to persuade wrongdoers of the error of their ways and guiding them back to the right paths . |
| 8 | But he would come back to the right cues , so I could cope . ’ |
| 9 | They , they needed a , a sort of a , a set of more radical policies to , to get full mobilization and it 's out of that that the outline agrarian law comes , and then they realize the mistakes of that and there 's a , there 's a pull back to the right so it 's , it 's that kind of move to the left and then back to the right . |
| 10 | We 'd want a good description to make sure the right property goes back to the right owner . |
| 11 | From their Edwardian dominance of golf and tennis , the British slipped back to the second rank . |
| 12 | But Tottenham 's problems pale by comparison with those of last night 's opponents ; should Coventry beat Sheffield Wednesday at home tonight and win or draw here on Saturday , then County will be on their way back to the Second Division . |
| 13 | In April each of the canes seen protruding starkly from the ground in February is cut back to the second bud and stakes are planted for their support . |
| 14 | In 1895 he was promoted back to the second class , but two years later , at the age of forty-five , a medical board found him unfit for duty ‘ due to chronic rheumatism and cracked feet ’ . |
| 15 | It goes back to the second world war , really . |
| 16 | The history of the perehera goes back to the second century AD , when King Gajabuha won a great victory against his foes in southern India , the Tamils , chasing them back across the narrow strait into their homeland . |
| 17 | The instruction then operates as follows : Load A and L into internal processor registers Perform the comparison with the word at A If the comparison is successful , terminate the instruction Otherwise , decrement L and increment A If L is zero , terminate the instruction Otherwise , jump back to the second line |
| 18 | The system of Heliopolis can be traced back to the Second and Third Dynasties . |
| 19 | Finally output is switched back to the second camera which is focussed on the forest clearing . |
| 20 | Right and they did n't get a license back to the second war . |
| 21 | The move takes Totten , who will be part-time with the Methil club , back to the Second Division where he originally found the Perth club . |
| 22 | If you do n't do it , it 'll be two possibly threeish because you 're not too sure , you 've got to go back to the second appointment and he might do it but then again he may not . |
| 23 | If you go back erm or let's go back to the second half of the seventeenth century , that 's always a good time to go to erm when erm well it was just after the English revolution , just after the English civil war , the Charles the First had been executed . |
| 24 | By 1979 energy consumption was almost back to the 1973 level but this trend was abruptly curtailed by the second oil shock which contributed to the worst recession in the UK since the Second World War . |
| 25 | THE Harvest Ministers are back to the live front with two major gigs in the coming weeks . |
| 26 | In the clinical literature , the word ‘ natural ’ is left undefined ( the medical description of this kind of shock goes back to the nineteenth-century discovery of ‘ hysteria ’ and its symptoms in women ) . |
| 27 | The fine church of St Wilfrid dates back to the 12th century , although there is mention of a church in the Domesday Book . |
| 28 | Laugharne Castle dates back to the 12th century and Carmarthen Castle to 1109 , restored some 200 years later by Edward I at a cost of £169 15s. 6d ! |
| 29 | New Hall dates back to the 12th century and is reputed to be the oldest fully moated manor house in England . |
| 30 | St Margaret 's Chapel , dating back to the 12th century , is the earliest surviving structure in Edinburgh Castle . |