Example sentences of "[noun sg] back to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I see , ’ he muttered through clenched teeth , handing the photograph back to Kirov . |
| 2 | Tracing the origins of Chinese civilisation back to the Yellow River ( Huanghe ) , the ‘ cradle ’ of the nation 's culture , a basic contradiction was noted which continued to have a profound effect on the people . |
| 3 | Outside , in the concourse , the bear-leader passed the chain round the bear 's neck , made a noose of it , and led the bear back to the Underground . |
| 4 | I ca n't see much more coming back to the town now . |
| 5 | It was another neighbour , Dandelion , who had now brought the talk back to the Threarah and his indifference to Fiver 's fear . |
| 6 | Kenneth Baker , the first known Home Secretary to acquire a criminal record while in office , for illegally sending a Zairean refugee back to Zaire . |
| 7 | And when she straightened up and went to take the key from the lock his hand was there before hers , and as he handed the key back to her , he said on a laugh , ‘ I see you do n't intend to be locked in from the outside . ’ |
| 8 | so she said I , I went in and I said to Geraldine I 'm going I owe you any bloody money take the bugger out me wages , she says I ai n't having people that I like being stabbed like that by people like that , she said she ai n't worth the salt of the earth , she 's the salt of the earth she said with people like that pointing to Jenny and Jane , no way , she said and I 'm going with my mates , I turned round and the next thing Janet and Janet and Barbara in there , when we got up the pub at twelve o'clock , course we were all having sandwiches me and Pam got the , me and er Barb got there , then Pam come in then a few more come and erm then the plumber and all that come in with them and I said oh girls we never clocked out , so I said oh well I 'm gon na have to take my key back to Steve , burst out laughing , so I said oh no I said why do n't we have a key cracking competition so of course that 's what we did we all took our keys out of our bag and we went ready for she 's a jolly good ready , steady , fellow , for she 's go and we cracked these ruddy keys and shoved them up in the air |
| 9 | He walked away to the desk , collecting his key , and as he walked towards the lifts he flicked a quick glance back to the girl who 'd been brought up as his daughter . |
| 10 | She lifted the hem of her skirt back to her waist , and smiled , and touched herself briefly between the legs . |
| 11 | He wheeled his horse back to the barricade and drove the animal hard at the frightened infantrymen . |
| 12 | Doggett spurred away , followed by a reluctant Nosey , while Sharpe dismounted and led his horse back to the chestnut trees which grew at the road 's fork . |
| 13 | ‘ You take this horse back to headquarters . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Wonderful weather , Lady Deverill ! ’ the young man called to his victim as he cantered through the iron gates and reined his horse back to a walk . |
| 15 | ‘ It would be marvellous if The Committee were to win the National , ’ Scott said , ‘ for the two owners have been immensely patient and have let me get on with bringing the horse back to his best after he had been off the course for two and a half years . ’ |
| 16 | The 37-year-old former England winger vowed he would see out the remaining 18 months of his contract , saying : Coppell , 37 , dismissed reports that he is wanted by Sunderland as he prepared to take his side back to Anfield where they crashed 5-0 on Saturday . |
| 17 | Coppell , 37 , dismissed reports that he is wanted by Sunderland as he prepared to take his side back to Liverpool tonight in the Coca-Cola Cup , after losing there 5-0 in the League on Saturday . |
| 18 | The complexities of these situations are shown by the case of an applicant and his family who left what was described as an ‘ overcrowded tin or galvanised structure with no basic amenities ’ in Bangladesh and who were treated as intentionally homeless by one London borough ( who considered that it was reasonable for them to continue to occupy that accommodation ) but not intentionally homeless by a second London borough who referred the applicant back to the first . |
| 19 | On the face of it , Oi is performing a similar function to early punk — taking rock back to the basics , grafting a class accent on to the music , reviving the original rebel-delinquent cluster — the myth of Elvis-as-hub-cap-thief , a poor white loser up against the Law . |
| 20 | Moving on from the , the dredger back to when you were a stevedore you used to sort out the different work for the , for the men , where did you used to congregate first thing in the morning ? |
| 21 | When the water boiled she made more tea in the silver pot , refilled the milk jug , found clean cups and a plateful of almond biscuits , and carried the tray back to the terrace . |
| 22 | He 'd come to complain to me because our student ( teacher ) had asked him to take a tray back to the ( dinner ) hatch . |
| 23 | It is necessary to have the lace carriage back on the left before you can knit any rows , so simply slide the carriage back to the left out of the way of the knitting . |
| 24 | Once down , gently close the throttle and bring the wheel back to your chest , and with a rearing nose the aeroplane slows in a shower of spray and a surprisingly short distance . |
| 25 | This relieves the fishkeeper of the task of despatching them , and recycles the protein back to the parents . |
| 26 | The main vessels that are cut and connected to the new liver are biliary duct , the hepatic artery which supplies the liver with blood from the heart , the portal vein which drains blood from the stomach and the gut and the hepatic vein which takes the blood back to the heart . |
| 27 | Lying down increases the return of blood back to the heart and brain . |
| 28 | Veins can be identified by their faintly blue colour and they may be made to stand out by restricting the flow of blood back to the heart . |
| 29 | Finally we were allowed to shuffle in , pair by pair , with the other animals , paid our money at the one-person-only box-office , and spent the remains on hot snacks from the kiosk to bring the blood back to our frozen digits . |
| 30 | After contact with intraluminal antigens , the lymphocytes travel to mesenterial lymph nodes to mature and by way of peripheral blood back to the gut mucosa to secrete antibodies against the priming antigen . |