Example sentences of "[noun] back to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That done , he can busy himself getting the Uruguay round 's warring parties back to the negotiating table . |
| 2 | Sir Patrick must hope this will be enough to bring the parties back to the table , to build on the broad principles agreed last time . |
| 3 | In June 1946 , a month after a popular referendum had voted down the Constituent Assembly 's proposed constitution and sent the parties back to the drawing board , de Gaulle re-entered the political fray . |
| 4 | Sir Patrick Mayhew and Irish Foreign Minister Dick Spring stressed that they would continue trying to woo the parties back to the table — but neither gave any specific basis for optimism . |
| 5 | Labour says that although it would hand the opted-out schools back to the authorities that used to control them , it would protect them against discrimination . |
| 6 | I never dared to ask , but I understand now what it is that drives addicts back to the needle time and time again whatever the cost to their health and sanity ; I understand now what the mystics lay claim to when they speak of the peace that passeth all understanding . |
| 7 | Tracing the origins of Chinese civilisation back to the Yellow River ( Huanghe ) , the ‘ cradle ’ of the nation 's culture , a basic contradiction was noted which continued to have a profound effect on the people . |
| 8 | Outside , in the concourse , the bear-leader passed the chain round the bear 's neck , made a noose of it , and led the bear back to the Underground . |
| 9 | The fire now reached his face , blackening his mouth , swelling the tongue , pushing the lips back to the gums . |
| 10 | We have to keep making trips back to the shop because we need bread or milk or something else that we 've forgotten . |
| 11 | I ca n't see much more coming back to the town now . |
| 12 | It was another neighbour , Dandelion , who had now brought the talk back to the Threarah and his indifference to Fiver 's fear . |
| 13 | ‘ If that is the case , we would wish to pass those savings back to the school . ’ |
| 14 | So why should we not pass the benefits of these savings back to the members ? |
| 15 | The court will prepare the appropriate form of reply , account for the fee and hand the made-up summonses back to the plaintiff 's solicitor for posting . |
| 16 | The convoy turns and heads back to the warehouse at Zenesa . |
| 17 | He walked away to the desk , collecting his key , and as he walked towards the lifts he flicked a quick glance back to the girl who 'd been brought up as his daughter . |
| 18 | He wheeled his horse back to the barricade and drove the animal hard at the frightened infantrymen . |
| 19 | Doggett spurred away , followed by a reluctant Nosey , while Sharpe dismounted and led his horse back to the chestnut trees which grew at the road 's fork . |
| 20 | The two men looked at each other quizzically , then Duncan handed the pictures back to the policeman and stood up . |
| 21 | Selkirk talked to the captain for a while in a language which he later explained was Erse , the tongue of the Isles , before taking Corbett back to the cabin . |
| 22 | He beckoned Corbett back to the table . |
| 23 | The complexities of these situations are shown by the case of an applicant and his family who left what was described as an ‘ overcrowded tin or galvanised structure with no basic amenities ’ in Bangladesh and who were treated as intentionally homeless by one London borough ( who considered that it was reasonable for them to continue to occupy that accommodation ) but not intentionally homeless by a second London borough who referred the applicant back to the first . |
| 24 | On the face of it , Oi is performing a similar function to early punk — taking rock back to the basics , grafting a class accent on to the music , reviving the original rebel-delinquent cluster — the myth of Elvis-as-hub-cap-thief , a poor white loser up against the Law . |
| 25 | When the water boiled she made more tea in the silver pot , refilled the milk jug , found clean cups and a plateful of almond biscuits , and carried the tray back to the terrace . |
| 26 | He 'd come to complain to me because our student ( teacher ) had asked him to take a tray back to the ( dinner ) hatch . |
| 27 | It is necessary to have the lace carriage back on the left before you can knit any rows , so simply slide the carriage back to the left out of the way of the knitting . |
| 28 | This can be achieved by making contributions in the year of change and in the following two years , in the latter case by relating premiums back to the year of change . |
| 29 | This relieves the fishkeeper of the task of despatching them , and recycles the protein back to the parents . |
| 30 | The main vessels that are cut and connected to the new liver are biliary duct , the hepatic artery which supplies the liver with blood from the heart , the portal vein which drains blood from the stomach and the gut and the hepatic vein which takes the blood back to the heart . |