Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] back to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't want to go back to the north . |
| 2 | Finally he lay down in the snow and determined to die , for his stamina had failed him and he had not found the Dwarves ; and he did not want to go back to the life of killing he had led . |
| 3 | I do n't want to go back to the house yet , a bit , not yet . " |
| 4 | If any Boozebuster victim decided he did n't actually want to go back to the office or home to his wife , Eddie would gently , but very publicly , take hold of him by what she called his ‘ wedding tackle ’ and lead him out of the pub . |
| 5 | for me , so , I 've arranged to go back to the dentist then . |
| 6 | We do not want to creep back to the economy that we had when Labour ran the country . |
| 7 | Three of the men agreed to come back to the captain , and we put the others in my cave . |
| 8 | Unless we want to go back to the Stone Age , zero pollution is not practical . ’ |
| 9 | After the elections I want to go back to the Institute of Forecasting . |
| 10 | And to understand that change I want to go back to the beginning and just to trace what has happened to the Chinese Communist Party since it was formed in nineteen twenty one when it had a mere I hope everybody can see that , it 's not very large today and I do n't think I can any better than that In nineteen twenty one when it was first founded , it had a mere fifty seven members and it did n't grow very much for a number of years . |
| 11 | ‘ I think I want to go back to the house for a while , ’ she said at last in a careful tone . |
| 12 | He says he 's feeling better but he has to go back to the hospice . |
| 13 | The twentieth-century preference for ‘ the colloquial ’ in poetry may well be a temporary phenomenon ; Donald Davie 's Purity of Diction in English Verse ( 1952 ) , together with his admiration for the late Augustans , represent one attempt to revive an interest in the use of a ‘ civilized ’ diction ; it is interesting that he has to go back to the age before Wordsworth . |
| 14 | For comparison , one really has to go back to the Renaissance , to someone like Giovanni Bellini , who travelled an enormous territory ; even to Giotto , the artist who Matisse said was the peak of his aspiration . |
| 15 | In the meantime he has to go back to the town on further business , but first his horse needs shoeing , his cart needs repairing and he needs food and shelter . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've only got her for five years , then she has to go back to the Foundling Hospital . ’ |
| 17 | He is n't allowed to play football and has to go back to the hospital for treatment . |
| 18 | One only has to see Back to the Future to realize what problems could arise . |
| 19 | Surely Baldwin , whatever his desire earlier in the imbroglio , can not at this stage have wished to go back to the Cabinet on the following morning and announce that a wayward King , who had already compromised his position with most opinion both at home and in the Dominions , had suddenly changed his mind , at least temporarily , and , having attracted the maximum publicity to his preference for Mrs Simpson over the Throne , was now prepared to ditch her and try to pick up again the pieces of kingship . |
| 20 | Electricity privatisation needs to go back to the drawing board . |
| 21 | They are expected to report back to the software house and tell the programming team about any bugs they find , any inconsistencies , and so forth . |
| 22 | Under George Bush , NASA was committed to go back to the moon and on to Mars , and the space station was arguably a step on that road . |
| 23 | ‘ Do you need to go back to the house to change ? ’ |
| 24 | He wants to go back to the base camp before we push on towards Finland . |
| 25 | On the following Monday she proposed to go back to the job she had taken to make it financially possible for Peter and her to buy their little home . |
| 26 | Do n't put yourself in a situation where the treasurer has to come back to the committee to argue over every last penny . |
| 27 | you 'll need to get back to the bungalow |
| 28 | In football , there was an early shock for Liverpool at Anfield as the champions tried to get back to the top of the table with Arsenal playing Leeds United at Highbury tomorrow . |
| 29 | The jeep was bouncing them about mercilessly as the Brigadier tried to get back to the village in time for the Captain and the Substitute to go back to Florence and eat . |
| 30 | He tried to get back to the drawing room unheard , but she was waiting . |