Example sentences of "back [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and my hearing floats back widely to earth |
| 2 | I would have been content then to die myself , rather than take my body back eventually to encumber the continents with yet another corpse . |
| 3 | After sharing the camaraderie of the fighting services or the hardships of civilian bombing on equal terms , surely women would not go meekly back home to wife-and-motherhood ? |
| 4 | Inside the studio we were brought back sharply to reality by a studio audience , all of whom shared two characteristics . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said , adding rashly , ‘ you can come back here to lunch afterward . ’ |
| 6 | So this is the natural timescale on which to find biologically modulated climatic changes — and it is also the timescale typical of changes from Ice Age to interglacial and back again to Ice Age . |
| 7 | But had it not been to rid herself of her aura of wealth and privilege which had created her feeling that she was the darling of the gods — although the same gods knew how brutally they had treated her — that she had come to the East End to work , and to live as though she really needed to , and to survive on the pittance which she had earned , without bolting back again to luxury and comfort ? |