Example sentences of "back to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herr Nordern staggered as the night air hit him and Bodo held his elbow as they lurched back to the flats . |
| 2 | When she got back to the flats , the leather jacket had gone . |
| 3 | Last year was abysmal , we conceeded so many goals because the defence could n't cope most notable occasion was Man City away where 2 of their 4 goals came from shite defending ie defenders unable to pass back to the goalie who would then pick it up . |
| 4 | The ones I 've got at the moment are having a little difficulty in working things out , one does n't realise that it 's not best to try to head the ball back to the goalie when there 's a man breathing down the back of his neck , the other has n't been able to find his brain and the oldest one of the lot is always injured . |
| 5 | I seem to remember a couple of his headers back to the goalie going astray last year ( including one in that humil iating defeat at Man City , 4–0 ) . |
| 6 | And came running back in stark terror a few minutes later as if all the hounds of hell were after him , and Preston , who thought they were , a half-length behind all the way back to the alley behind their two houses where they stopped to get their breath back before they went in . |
| 7 | For many , the scramble for enough cash to afford the free market prices inevitably leads back to the state shops , and specifically to beer . |
| 8 | In the middle of the night , the ruling party 's congress wound up its work with a resolution to hand back to the state all superfluous assets . |
| 9 | He was sentenced to two years in prison , and was ordered to pay back to the state several thousand Swiss francs which he had used illegally to arrange a place at a Swiss university for Zhivkov 's grandson [ see p. 38017 ] . |
| 10 | We have a right to ask for it to be put back to the state it was in . ’ |
| 11 | He replaced the receiver then hurried back to the water 's edge where he gathered together his tackle before returning to the cabin to pack . |
| 12 | The sooner she gets back to the water , the better . |
| 13 | Campbell now turned back to the water . |
| 14 | So to find out how much you pay for , how much actual energy has been used up , you think it , again going back to the water , if we have a big tank full of water and we 're using it up , this time in terms of power , erm if we have something that 's using up water at the rate of say six gallons a minute and someone 's going to charge you for your water . |
| 15 | It also brings Albert Finney back to the London stage in a commanding comic performance that serves as a potent reminder that we see him far too rarely these days . |
| 16 | Not only is it raining , it 's 5 o'clock , and though I 'm not defeatist by nature I do n't even bother looking for a taxi , deciding instead to walk the two miles back to the London flat . |
| 17 | Hoisted back to the London street , she saw them both reflected in the plate-glass of the shop window , superimposed in transparency above silk and fur , gilt and leather , the swaggering dummies with blind inscrutable gaze in their preposterous clothes . |
| 18 | Colin Scragg moves back to the London West branch [ formerly known as Hayes ] as service manager . |
| 19 | Her hand was wet and she gripped the receiver tightly , thinking back to the night of the February dance and how the telephone was fixed to the wall beside the door . |
| 20 | God 's claim to the firstborn goes back to the night of the Passover ( Exodus 12 ) . |
| 21 | And lead him out to the Waiting Room where he 's allowed to linger and holler for a while before we ferry him back to the night . |
| 22 | This also enables any eventual profit to be kept in the long term , avoiding the problem that if it is retained , any eventual surplus would have to go back to the borrower . |
| 23 | I do not cast directly over the swim , but several yards beyond it and draw back to the swim before the bait can settle , covering all areas of the swim and many spots out of it . |
| 24 | I cast and make sure the worm lands three or four yards further than the baited area , which allows me to pull it back to the swim and sink the line at the same time . |
| 25 | You 'd better hustle back to the stand , pronto ! |
| 26 | Bad though it is , the figure suggests that Guatemala is not yet back to the horrors of the early 1980s when death squads , organised by military presidents , murdered at will . |
| 27 | ‘ Deal with this fellow , will you , ’ said the Major , walking back to the trenches , annoyed at getting his polished boots muddy . |
| 28 | We go back to the incompetence argument again . |
| 29 | For her life 's sake Chesarynth turned reluctantly and made her way back to the tutorial room . |
| 30 | Sid Field asked whether dead ones were accepted and John Stanley sent in a Bob Dylan song , saying he was the only ‘ modern whose lyrics I coul get my hands on without going back to the Bard , and I thought that was n't what you wanted ’ . |