Example sentences of "back to [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I can never really be sure as to whether Binnian or Slievelamagan is my favourite top , but take endless delight in going back to them time and time again in the hope of solving this important question .
2 I got to the stage where I went back to me mum and dad .
3 the quality of lateral communications , which may enable subordinates to get jobs done without constant reference back to their superior ;
4 At the same time , the LRDG would be watching the road , counting traffic and signalling the intelligence back to their base .
5 The chief investigators here were E. D. Cope and O. C. Marsh , rivals in the manner of robber barons , chartering trains and suborning each other 's assistants in an effort to get the spoils back to their base first .
6 The Buccaneers flew back to their base at RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland .
7 For the first time in this long climb back to their fortune he began to feel a sort of panic .
8 Lloyds may be the only bank turning up its nose at the dollar bill , but the others are n't wild about some large-denomination European notes which often have to be shipped back to their country of origin rather than recycled through the system .
9 A short sojourn by the seaside , back to their country farm , back to the hospital , and then the end .
10 The fact is that we give exceptional leave to remain because it would be inhumane to send some people , such as the Croatian that the hon. Member mentioned , back to their country at this time , even though they may not have made a claim of persecution .
11 The trio , who all play for FK Austria in Vienna , have not been allowed to travel back to their country .
12 The trio , who all play for FK Austria in Vienna , have not been allowed to travel back to their country .
13 They darted back to their bunk and behind him was the sound of ripping paper .
14 Twenty thousand Ski Americans going back to their valley farms , after an evening infected with urban sleaze .
15 Oh , the dawn when shadows skeeter ahead of the sure fluid sunlight , back to their night .
16 Even moving from high to low cost areas can raise difficulties — employees may doubt that they will ever be able to move back to their home areas or other more expensive regions once they have committed themselves to living in a lower cost housing area .
17 The aim was that they might go back to their home territories " further equipped in mind and spirit for the tasks to which they are appointed " .
18 Alison Santos of Madryn Street , Toxteth , and her family are living with a neighbour because they are too terrified to go back to their home .
19 After Mr Kennedy had been taken back to their villa by his wife , Shelley entered the details of the case into a file , and wondered if she need take any further action .
20 When he and Johnson got back to their inn , Boswell ‘ begged permission to leave him for a little while , that I might run about and pay some short visits to several good people of Inverness ’ .
21 The two who had been talking to me went with the others back to their vehicle .
22 He nodded , and then they were both moving back to their vehicle , the Indian drifting light-footed into the back .
23 She had to cross the road again to get back to their apartment ; now that her eyes were used to the darkness it seemed as bright as day out of doors , and her blue cotton dress incandescent white .
24 Oblivious to her injuries , Thomas Duke would have carried his daughter back to their cottage in his arms , though it is conceivable that she was carried on an old door or something .
25 She gave him a lift back to their cottage in Tetbury .
26 The hunters failed to find Ralph and they returned back to their fort .
27 Using staining techniques and toxins that specifically destroy individual nerve cells , neuroscientists have been able to trace the pathway of nerves that send acetylcholine signals in the higher cortex back to their origin , a small region of the forebrain known as the nucleus basalis of Meynert .
28 In general however , women were sent back to their music and their embroidery and were told to be submissive .
29 Khaur and Danjit simply propelled her — Jezrael could hardly walk , so massive was her state of shock — out of the wintry night fields and back to their depot , leaving Ember 's body lonely in the cold .
30 Unaware that these were the last rites of disco , the aliens reported back to their Mistress ruler on the home planet .
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