Example sentences of "[be] [verb] back to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A spokesman for the ministry confirmed that an outbreak of food poisoning in Bedworth in July had been traced back to the monastery .
2 Hoping against hope that she had not ducked out back to her own flat — not that she 'd blame her ! — Leith skirted the room until her eyes were drawn to a settee that had been pushed back to the side of the room .
3 Some of those contributions are channelled back to the Church Commissioners for distribution .
4 We 're going back to a kind of rating system with the different assessment on valuations
5 ‘ You 've found us , we 're going back to the quarry , everything 's all right , ’ he said soothingly .
6 ‘ You 're going back to the road , sir ? ’
7 ‘ We 're going back to the wireless room .
8 you 're going where ? , you 're going back to the moon , oh have you co , have you come back from the moon now ?
9 you 're going back to the moon ?
10 We 're going back to the woodblock flooring .
11 ‘ We 're going back to the boat , ’ he said tersely .
12 Oh you 're getting back to the privet hedge and suburbia are n't you ?
13 ‘ We 're moving back to the Front .
14 It 's like the twilight zone , as if you 're travelling back to the depression of the 1930s .
15 It 's like the twilight zone , as if you 're travelling back to the depression of the 1930s .
16 I 'm going to recommend to IMP that you 're sent back to the laboratory and they send us someone we know and trust !
17 In October 1944 the Leaders faced the problem of redecorating the Primary School room which had been handed back to the church after having been in use during the War as a First Aid Post for a unit of the St John 's Ambulance Brigade led by Miss Mary Lutton .
18 Four bags of toxic waste which were found abandoned on the Oxford ring road have been handed back to the company that lost them .
19 German embassy officials in Moscow said the unframed pictures , contained in a battered brown portfolio , had been handed back to the embassy by a former Red Army officer who insisted on remaining anonymous .
20 The sound waves bounce off objects in their path and are reflected back to the dolphin where they are channelled through oil-filled sinuses in the lower jaw to the inner ear .
21 But meanwhile many Japanese eyes are turning back to the root cause : policy co-ordination and America .
22 PHYSICS lecturers are going back to the nursery to teach toddlers in the water tub while admissions tutors consider the merits of palm-reading and astrology for selecting students at Newcastle Polytechnic .
23 THE enthusiastic housekeeper will no doubt be pleased to hear that the carpet retailers are going back to the twist .
24 De Klerk said his visit showed South Africa and the world that " we are moving back to the fold " .
25 For a moment , until the old men had been dragged back to the barricade , all was chaos .
26 Some are seeking independence and freedom from family or institutional repression ; some are escaping from problems or abuse whether at home , within the family , or at school ; some are running back to the family and away from care authorities .
27 More children are coming back to the library to work because teachers give the initial push by bringing them …
28 And with that slice of humour , we are brought back to the present .
29 But if that is put on one side we are brought back to the question of what kinds of determining factors Poulantzas invokes in order to explain what actually happens .
30 The answer to his first point is that it is absolutely clear that a number of people who break their bail conditions are remanded in custody when they are brought back to the court ; but that happens in only about six out of 10 cases , and in four out of 10 cases when those who break their bail conditions are brought back to the court , it seems that they are no longer remanded in custody but are again let out on bail .
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