Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] back to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As no form of updating had taken place the room was in need of considerable physical repair … much of the stock dated back to the school 's opening and was therefore unsuitable for the pupils and curriculum of today . |
| 2 | My mind cast back to the winter of last November when I stood on this same platform awaiting the arrival of a new intake . |
| 3 | Annie 's mind cast back to the number of his children who had defied Jonadab round this very table . |
| 4 | And then Boy cut back to the man on the bed , who was saying ( actually it was a different man in a different room , Boy realised ; the sofa and the quilted nylon counterpane were in a different colour in this room , though the man sitting there looked just like the last one ) , the man was saying I like your shoes , please take off your shoes ; and Boy cut backwards and forwards between this man and the politician beginning to lose his self-control and saying I would just ask people to forgive me really and to forgive my wife as well . |
| 5 | ‘ What 's he doing ? ’ she cried , agonized , as the picture cut back to the chairman . |
| 6 | The British connection dated back to the time when Jacobite refugees settled here in the eighteenth century , but it was after Wellington 's victories in the region early in the 1800s that it became serious . |
| 7 | No one noticed that Bienvida , her grandmother 's granddaughter more than her mother 's child , had at some stage gone back to the Headmaster 's Flat and changed into dungarees to keep her Oxfam dress of nylon organza from getting dirty . |