Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] back to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that , of course , leads us back to the question : ‘ Where are they all ? ’ |
| 2 | Or you can use the Back Door to hop between two rooms — it takes you back to the room you were in last . |
| 3 | Singing carols around the Christmas tree and exploring the cobbled streets takes you back to the era of the Boston Tea Party . |
| 4 | A person who is entitled to the temporary possession of a chattel and who delivers it back to the owner for a special purpose may , after that purpose is satisfied and during the existence of his temporary right , sue the owner for conversion of it ; a fortiori he can sue anyone else . |
| 5 | Leasing is a system whereby a financial institution purchases a piece of equipment and leases it back to the company , which then has the use of equipment it has not had to purchase . |
| 6 | That mention of the desert takes us back to the territory traversed in The Waste Land , ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , and Ash-Wednesday . |
| 7 | And that takes us back to the issue of continuity/discontinuity between animality and humanity . |
| 8 | It takes us back to the past , when belief in God was a living thing . ’ |
| 9 | If we are looking for advice on a particular situation which affects us then impartiality of the second type is particularly important ; for instance , the judge who assesses the relevant facts and selects the relevant moral or legal rules must not be someone who has something to gain or lose by the outcome , although this presupposes the correctness of the rules to be applied and so takes us back to the impartiality normally associated with legislators , which is a matter of their involvement in determining rules which are not only universalisable but are actually to be universalised , at least within a given community , and to their impartiality in the third sense namely the adequacy of the consideration given to the various relevant considerations . |
| 10 | As Kee says : ‘ The religion of Constantine takes us back to the context of the Old Testament . |
| 11 | But that throws you back to the problem . |
| 12 | Is there a masochistic streak in all woodturners that sends them back to the pole lathe ? |
| 13 | Once the replacement arrives , the customer puts the non-working product into the post-paid replacement box , seals it with the tape provided by Hewlett-Packard and sends it back to the company . |
| 14 | erm only the Emir , and he has to give very erm strict reasons for it and he sends it back to the parliament to look into it again and when it comes back the second time the Emir can pass it . |
| 15 | If they do so he grabs them by the neck and hauls them back to the fold . |
| 16 | But then , about one year in six , some fortunate swirl in the currents brings them back to the island where they first fell into the water a month earlier and at a high tide in December , a horde of tiny crablets no bigger than ants suddenly emerges from the waves and marches valiantly up the beach and on inland to restock the forest . |
| 17 | The memory of Nancy brings me back to the question that occupied me so much , what was it about the Centre that could transform misery , bitterness and hatred into love and hope , and possibly even happiness , all in the space of fourteen days ? |
| 18 | Which brings me back to the sermon with which I started . |
| 19 | ‘ People have suggested to me that changes have been coming more rapidly than they would like but that brings me back to the feeling that people intrinsically do n't like change . |
| 20 | The board itself has been soaked beforehand so the wood does not absorb the dampness too quickly ; in fact it feeds it back to the clay , enabling it to stay fresh for longer . |
| 21 | The mother wasp goes out of her burrow , catches and kills a bee ( by stinging ) , and brings it back to the burrow . |
| 22 | The importance of withdrawal brings us back to the issue of women 's sexual dependency and the fact that some degree of male cooperation was necessary , if only a willingness to be pushed out of the way . |
| 23 | This scale of increasing effort brings us back to the optimisation mechanism of Eikmeyer 's network of co-operation . |
| 24 | Well that brings us back to the idea that he may be a man of style , rather than substance , in terms of differentiating himself from Mrs Thatcher . |
| 25 | This rightly brings us back to the subject of worship rather than evangelism . |
| 26 | Which brings us back to the beginning , and the need to recognise a horse 's emotions and to respond to them in a way which will not rouse the horse 's fear or anger . |
| 27 | Verse 34 brings us back to the source of authority for these and all the laws in Leviticus . |
| 28 | This brings us back to the importance of considering the functions which explanations serve in particular contexts . |
| 29 | But that brings us back to the point we were stressing a moment ago , if the goods are faulty you 're entitled to money back , a cash refund . |
| 30 | This brings us back to the refusal of the Court of Appeal to relist . |