Example sentences of "back to [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Highlander staff wanted to get back to somewhere near where they started from ; that is , working with struggling communities in the mountains , helping them to find a voice , to articulate their problems clearly , and in realising the nature of their problems , to take positive action to solve them . |
2 | And going back to somewhere you have not been since you were a baby could be very exciting . |
3 | Which brought him back to tonight . |
4 | And now back to tonight 's top story and the news that two firemen have been killed fighting a serious fire at a poultry processing factory . |
5 | Even the mid-week football slot has been pushed back to 11.20pm from its prime slot after News at Ten . |
6 | Both these differences suggest the importance of a distinction which I shall come back to later : attitudes to the role of housewife are in principle not the same thing as feelings about housework . |
7 | It is now funded by the health authority under the normal joint finance arrangements and there have been one or two local disputes which I 'll come back to later on . |
8 | Okay so make sure we plant the seed and and we 're planting the seed to go back to later on . |
9 | Whereas for the other his faulty picture may go back to badly tangled family relationships which have left him unable to see any authority as good or loving . |
10 | Lord Rees-Mogg , past chairman of the council , argued there was a case for putting the watershed back to 10pm or later , as in France and Germany . |
11 | However this little problem does n't occur if you are investigating a new savings plan because the correction for inflation brings the value back to today 's values . |
12 | Yet , with very few exceptions , they succeed in getting back to exactly the same stretch of river where they hatched . |
13 | They live their first few months in the river , then migrate downstream to the sea ; they spend two or three years in feeding and growing out at sea , during which they cover thousands of miles ; and when mature , they migrate back to exactly the same river , and same tributary , as they were born in . |
14 | You think to yourself , when I move from there to there I say whatever , and then when I move back to here I say the following . |
15 | If they 'd been traced back to here , it would have been your responsibility . ’ |
16 | Always , when dead-heading or taking flowers as cut bloom , observe the above principle of cutting or cleaning back to just above a node . |
17 | Autumn raspberries need cutting back to just above ground level , and fruit trees should be sprayed against pests . |
18 | By 1985–6 it had brought it back to just below 50 per cent . |
19 | Bring back to just under the boil and simmer gently for 5 minutes . |
20 | I was an old London man myself , and at one time I was manager of the branch in Upper Thames Street — that 's going back to just after the war . |
21 | And indeed his stock might well go back to just such stubborn settlers , survivors after the death of this city , the offspring of time-expired legionaries and the daughters of enterprising local middlemen . |
22 | Jacques Delors had originally intended to spend the afternoon looking around the JET Fusion Project at Culham … but his visit was cut back to just over an hour after an emergency meeting with Prime Minister John Major . |
23 | I know what I 'll do , I 'll go back to just there |
24 | As you go backwards in time , to say the first minute of the universe 's life , the density is not absurdly high , it 's only a little more than that of water , but the density of radiation is much , much higher — it 's a million times higher — and the temperature is like the inside of a nuclear reactor , so one of the interesting things is that when we get back to just a minute , say , after the apparent beginning of the expansion , we 're not yet dealing with any bizarre physics , we 're dealing with conditions that we know and understand on earth . |
25 | The official parade was cut back to just under an hour and it was preceded by speeches from workers and politicians . |
26 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
27 | Prune all the stems back to within about 4in of the ground in mid to late March when the sap is rising . |
28 | Make sure that each loop is fairly large — try pulling the needle back to within approximately one centimetre of non-work position . |
29 | It is a work I have to come back to again and again . |
30 | One of Abu Khadra 's first memories — and one that he went back to again and again — was of walking with his brothers Rabah and Anwar through his father 's olive grove in Jaffa to visit the house of his uncles . |