Example sentences of "back to [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this , Golding decided they should be driven back to Swans ' Meadow , accompanied by Finch and a lugubrious detective sergeant called Barrett . |
| 2 | Why do n't you go back to Gran 's ? |
| 3 | He turned over passages of the interview as he drove back to Regent 's Park Road , committing them to memory for later recitation . |
| 4 | But a philosophical tradition stretching back to Aristotle 's exploration of the relationship between ‘ first substance ’ and ‘ second substance ’ in The Categories has seen that there are other ways of exploring the issue . |
| 5 | Like Brooke-Rose , Jacques Derrida ( 1972b:277–8 ) and Paul Ricoeur ( 1975:19–24 ) trace the bias toward noun-based views of metaphor back to Aristotle 's classification , but neither investigates the implications of an alternative view based on a different part of speech . |
| 6 | Only a trickle of progress reports have so far found their way back to Buckinghamshire 's education department , but they confirm the trend nationally of a poor overall response and turnout confined principally to a hardcore of parents , generally stalwarts of a school parent-teacher association . |
| 7 | Well I , well er I came back to Britain er I , I was er liberated by General Patton in a , a small place called Erfurt I was flown from Erfurt into Cherbourg , and from Cherbourg into a small place called Amersham which was a reception station for prisoners of war , where we were treated er on entering the camp we were handed a telegram . |
| 8 | As he lived in the city , Mr Coary drove me up to the Noones ’ for my bag and then took me all the way back to O'Brien 's Hotel in Dublin , where I had stayed long before . |
| 9 | At Vergina , later in the fourth century , the quality of recently discovered fresco-painting suggests an established tradition which might go back to Archelaos ' time ; and continuity is also suggested by Pliny 's statement ( Natural History xxxv.62 ) that Zeuxis gave Archelaos a painting of Pan , who was to be patron deity of the third-century Macedonian king Antigonos Gonatas ( see the coin illustrated as frontispiece to W. Tarn ( 1913 ) Antigonos Gonatas ) . |
| 10 | My brain slammed into reverse — moving back to Jim 's words the other night . |
| 11 | Go back to Spain 's historic routes |
| 12 | When two hours had passed and he had n't returned , Lyn imagined him finding his way back to Bale 's and by this act leading her there in search of him . |
| 13 | His style of narration changes in the last chapter , as his narration of Ralph changes from Ralph 's point of view near the beginning , back to Golding 's extensive view of the whole island . |
| 14 | I kept trying to get back to Changez 's lugubrious face , which reclined morosely in his good hand as the guests filled the air around him with cultivated noises . |
| 15 | How in this context are they to be drawn back to Jesus ' people ? |
| 16 | Before the decisive revolt , which provoked the full-scale Roman backlash , there had been numerous abortive insurrections extending back to Jesus 's time and , indeed , well before . |
| 17 | He wondered what he would do if he could n't get into the house … well , he supposed he could go back to Joseph 's place , spend the night there and then hurry home at first light , when the servants would be up . |
| 18 | As an illustration of what we are trying to unearth , let's go back to Muriel 's situation again , and think of her in relation to this exercise . |
| 19 | if she is n't in , no , we can go to your house and then go back to Kate 's house |
| 20 | They relate back to Allport 's concept of ‘ becoming ’ which , by its very definition , is never-ending . |
| 21 | On an impulse he reversed the Jaguar and drove quickly back to Martyr 's Cottage . |
| 22 | At about 3.30 Reynolds and Richardson went back to North 's office . |
| 23 | He went back to Prince 's Lodge and managed to collect the keys of the Missile without being seen . |
| 24 | Even in the Renaissance the figure could ‘ symbolise the essential oneness of the sexes ’ ( p. 140 ) , and , with reference back to Plato 's Symposium , the recovery of an original lost unity ( itself intrinsically sexual ) . |
| 25 | A powerful urge told me to return to the station and get on the train back to Jamila 's place . |
| 26 | Well when he went back to work er they did n't let him start . |
| 27 | Another would sometimes go back to work er if their son or dau well mainly the sons went to university and they needed the extra money for that . |
| 28 | Athelstan wandered back to Philippa 's chamber but it was deserted . |
| 29 | But we had arranged already : luncheon in an inn , followed by a walk in the country , and then back to Frank 's lodgings for tea . |
| 30 | On the walk back to Daphne 's flat Becky could n't help feeling a little guilty about deserting Charlie on his first night home and began to think perhaps it had been selfish of her to accept an invitation to go to a concert with Guy that night . |