Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] [verb] back to " in BNC.
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1 | Now that the party can no longer call on state finances , it will have to streamline its bureaucracy , and has already decided to hand back to the nation all superfluous assets , including the party 's holiday homes , hotels … and its headquarters . |
2 | Well you 've only got to go back to what we 've been discussing and Jesus |
3 | ‘ Mike and I had already decided to go back to Blend Six for Jerez if it 's still hot . ’ |
4 | But Hanger had already decided to go back to his prison at Grendon near Aylesbury . |
5 | She had not come running back to Frank . |
6 | I had always longed to get back to Abyssinia . |
7 | No , you 've still got to get back to your place |
8 | How she had ever managed to get back to the Shelbourne , she did n't know . |
9 | When Ken got up that afternoon — he had n't come home till three in the morning — Wendy said , ‘ I 've really got to go back to work ; I 'm drinking too much : this life is driving me mad . ’ |
10 | And of course you really , in order to get at the origins of history , you 've really got to go back to the , to the Greeks . |
11 | Some of us have only got to look back to what was achieved by people during the last war . |
12 | And you have never mentioned going back to Bewick — ’ |