Example sentences of "a [noun] [to-vb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Ellcock announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the age of 216 after Middlesex 's pre-season tour to Portugal , he was finally admitting defeat in a struggle to overcome back problems he has been fighting for much of his 10-year career . |
| 2 | They wandered off to the north-east a bit but not badly enough to get really lost , and after a while made a correction to drift back to north . |
| 3 | ‘ A crusade to bring back order , stability and discipline to the world . |
| 4 | If this involves going back to first principles , then however removed they may be from our present experience , we have a responsibility to go back . |
| 5 | And last , but not least , everyone in Congress has a responsibility to go back to their workplaces and communities and begin the campaign , not next year , or the year after , but next week . |
| 6 | Yes , but I would have thought that you know I M R O sh should of then I asked , I write and asked them the question , I r really would have expected a reply to come back , yes , we found this and so and so , but we then scraped a little bit further and erm . |
| 7 | It 's not a defeat to turn back and return on a better day . |
| 8 | In mitigation Duncan Smith said Stevenson and his friend had been drinking in a pub and decided to take a car to get back home . |
| 9 | What I was going to tell him , if he was to come over , take my car there when I 'd have taken this car over , I would have had a car to come back . |
| 10 | SPOT the dog is a greyhound in a million — he 's beaten cancer , and this weekend will resume his racing career in a bid to pay back some of the costs of two major operations that saved his life . |
| 11 | The mother has written to the European Court of Human Rights in a bid to win back her child . |
| 12 | That means I have n't got a key to get back in the house . |
| 13 | That means I have n't got a key to get back in the house . |
| 14 | Michael Gough , my editor , works for me in New York and he said he went to get a key to get back in after they had closed and they said why and he said because I think that I will be back later than your gate is locked . |
| 15 | One wanted to go in and break it up , a second to stay back and let them go home . |
| 16 | And of course we keep their rooms for them as long as there 's any chance at all — it 's tremendously important that they should feel they 've a home to go back to . ’ |
| 17 | But he may not have a home to go back to . |
| 18 | One of the most common patterns of establishing chains of reference in English and a number of other languages is to mention a participant explicitly in the first instance , for example by name or title , and then use a pronoun to refer back to the same participant in the immediate context . |
| 19 | A determination to get back what had been taken from them . |
| 20 | In periods of slump , for example , they may be drawn out of the labour market more quickly than other groups ( particularly unskilled and semi-skilled older workers ) ; in periods of labour shortage , the justification for retiring and becoming a ‘ non-producing consumer ’ may be questioned as part of a campaign to call back or retain people in the labour force . |
| 21 | Mr Crosbie said yesterday there are also signs that the school roll is to rise , after a campaign to win back the confidence of local parents . |
| 22 | Therefore the Australian move to make whaling more humane was in fact a move to get back to the way it had been after a serious deterioration . |
| 23 | Otherwise , the lawyers have to sort out things like what rights are retained by shareholders , access to new revisions , compensation plans , employment contracts , shared AT&T/USL patents , pension plans and whether USL employees still have a right to go back to work at AT&T , an enticement used to get them to go to USL in the first place . |
| 24 | The members of the ABI therefore expect that issues involving more than 10 per cent of issued equity share capital , or a discount greater than 5 per cent , will be placed on a basis which leaves existing shareholders with a right to claw back their pro rata share of the issue if they so wish . |
| 25 | He argued there was a need to go back to basic skills and more disciplined teaching , and announced that , within two years , schools inspection teams are to include non-educationists on each visit . |
| 26 | For them , he said , there was a need to go back to the basics of spelling , grammar , punctuation and arithmetic . |
| 27 | The advent of war was not seen by Unionists as a need to turn back to a conventional patriotism , for Unionists had never doubted the patriotism of their previous stance . |
| 28 | In practical terms , the audit process can be summarised as a sequence of stages ( Fig 13.4 ) although , like the SSM , these should be regarded as guidelines rather than prescriptive , as there may be a need to refer back to earlier activities and make adjustments as the audit progresses . |
| 29 | A barricade of flagstones prised up from the floor had been erected for a final stand and the Collector , snatching a moment to look back towards it , was dismayed to see that the other party was already behind it , thus leaving himself and his men exposed on the flank . |
| 30 | Tony Knight , who worked at BT as an electronics engineer for 23 years before opting for the academic life at Henley Management College , says that BT middle managers have attended his courses uncertain of whether they would have a job to go back to . |