Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] back to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began to realise that life like this could not last for ever and so I asked to go back to the Cheshire Home for a holiday . |
| 2 | Next summer mum was told she would have to go back into hospital for a long time , and because I already knew the place , I agreed to go back to the Cheshire Home for this period . |
| 3 | Three of the men agreed to come back to the captain , and we put the others in my cave . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He tried to get back to the drawing room unheard , but she was waiting . |
| 8 | I talked to Mum , and she tried to think back to the day she met Elaine , and she remembered I was born in a nursing home in Birkleigh . |
| 9 | Patrick shook his head and turned to walk back to the foyer . |
| 10 | And so , feeling faintly and inexplicably troubled , he turned to head back to the yard . |
| 11 | With such dignity as I could manage I began to walk back to the village . |
| 12 | when Sir Henry left the house and began to walk back to the Hall |
| 13 | The brave man turned his back on Silver and began to walk back to the beach . |
| 14 | On May 23 , 187 political prisoners were released , while defeated or deserting government troops began to drift back to the capital . |
| 15 | The painful contractions started before I reached the ward and by the time the ward nurse had brought me 2 paracetamol , I needed to go back to the delivery suite ! |
| 16 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 17 | There was a telephone by the bed but he decided to go back to the hall , where another instrument stood on a table under the bannisters . |
| 18 | So I decided to go back to the ship again , and get some more things . |
| 19 | When the answer was a resounding ‘ Non ’ they decided to go back to the classroom . |
| 20 | I decided to go back to the block and rest for a little . |
| 21 | The men turned together and started to walk back to the hotel . |
| 22 | They started to walk back to the Mercedes . |
| 23 | While one crew got through , Jugoslavs Rodic/Kvezenic decided to retreat back to the jetty , leaving marshal John Griffiths to pacify an irate violence-threatening angler . |
| 24 | Donna shivered and decided to head back to the car , not even sure why she had come here in the first place . |
| 25 | A researcher sent to report back to the Jane Goodall Institute kept hearing of captive chimps under sentence of death unless a place was found for them . |
| 26 | He left me to become acquainted with the religious environment , and then handed me a paperback entitled Modern Buddhism in Burma , which he had edited in cooperation with Kenneth Saunders , warden of the YMCA hostel , and already a translator of the Dhamma-pada , a collection of short sayings thought to go back to the Buddha . |
| 27 | Once , landing from the submarine HMS Tigris , his fellow canoeist — a Free French soldier — lost his boat in rough water , but they managed to get back to the submarine . |
| 28 | Well I meant to say back to the house , I meant to say . |
| 29 | When Stephen 's mother was told of their intended trip , she immediately offered to move back to the Manor , to oversee the children . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , because he had had a source of comfort , the moment Ellie left to go back to the house his mournful howls increased in volume . |