Example sentences of "and [vb -s] back to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Howard escapes from the hospital and goes back to the scene of the robbery where everything is strangely familiar . |
| 3 | Grand Prix racing existed long before the formation of the World Championship in 1950 , and goes back to 1906 when the first French Grand Prix was run . |
| 4 | She turns and goes back to the house . |
| 5 | He 's got very he 's very sensitive cells in his nose because , cos a dog used to be a hunting dog , and goes back to being a wolf , they used to track their prey to eat so they 've still got that ability and we have n't , but a dog has , it can smell . |
| 6 | She loses interest and goes back to the television . |
| 7 | Mrs Tamm turns on her heel and goes back to her desk . |
| 8 | If there are no more loans to be entered , the user presses the RETURN key and goes back to the options list . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Day Six : With a salute from the dawn chorus , your cruiser leaves at 6.30am and heads back to Cologne . |
| 11 | Without warning one falls out of step and drops back to his place In the crowd . |
| 12 | The recurrent nerve leaves the hypocerebral ganglion as a median or paired lateral oesophageal nerve and passes back to the hinder region of the fore gut , where it ( or each branch ) terminates in a ventricular ganglion . |
| 13 | Then he drags his victim into the bushes or the trees , kills and cuts back to the other road and the car and makes his getaway . |
| 14 | But down the road Diana gets out and travels back to London in another car . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't know what they gave Rocky but he came round within 24 hours and seems back to normal now , ’ said Mr Taylor . |
| 16 | Yet , like Sly , he can only sustain the unfamiliar medium for a few speeches , and sinks back to his true milieu . |
| 17 | D5 glows green and changes back to red when the period is up . |
| 18 | We can trace the current state of our knowledge about village origins and changes back to the 1940s . |
| 19 | They required the most sophisticated communications technology so that they could transmit their stories and pictures back to their own countries . |
| 20 | The fish snatches the free end and disappears back to the deep . |
| 21 | Then the private car rolls to a stop , and he gets off and walks back to Cartier . ’ |
| 22 | He sticks me with a pink slip and walks back to his car . |
| 23 | The house itself is , not surprisingly , a little younger and dates back to the 16th century when it was owned by the great-great-aunt of President George Washington . |
| 24 | The Harcourt family is one of the oldest in England and dates back to Normandy . |
| 25 | The term claret describes all wines from the Bordeaux area and dates back to our earliest encounters with wine . |
| 26 | If a customer places an order to buy with a price limit of 24 , and the market is 22 and rising , the smart front runner buys at 22 or 23 and sells back to his own customer at 24 . |
| 27 | At the beginning of each new shot , the tape first back-tracks over the last few seconds of the previous recording , after which it reverses and returns back to the edit-point during which the camcorder 's electronics find and lock onto the previously recorded control-pulses . |
| 28 | One classic route follows Gunnerside Gill to the dams at Blakethwaite and returns back to Gunnerside by Hard Level , Old Gang and the track over Brownsey Moor by Long Brae to Potting . |
| 29 | The JMU acts as its senses , its eyes and ears , and reports back to the committee on its findings . |
| 30 | And inside , the rat finds things out — though Christ knows how , no-one in their right mind would pass the time of day with him — and reports back to The Man . ’ |