Example sentences of "[vb infin] back to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first- and second-person pronouns are typical examples in that they do not refer back to a nominal expression in the text but to the speaker and hearer ( or writer and reader ) respectively . |
| 2 | ‘ I think we 'd better head back to a city , you know . |
| 3 | It did n't hark back to a mythical , puritan past but went super-realistic instead . |
| 4 | … Oakeshott 's conservatism does not appeal to any sort of metaphysical or religious beliefs for sanction or support ; nor does it hark back to a more integrated and traditional form of society . |
| 5 | We can look back to a similar situation hundreds of years ago — the taming of knights in the Middle Ages . |
| 6 | And you and I , perhaps , we can look back to a day in our life when it was our birthday , as far as that is concerned and God filled us with his Holy Spirit , we received the gift of the Holy Spirit , we were baptized in the Holy Spirit . |
| 7 | It also means that they 'll draw back to a a narrower profile does n't it . |
| 8 | With the Tories moving on to more radical positions , and the Labour Party now much more centrist , logic seemed to dictate that this kind of Alliance supporter should move back to a Social Democratic outlook identical with that of old Gaitskellites . |
| 9 | I try to babysit for different people ; sometimes I 'm so embarrassed I ca n't go back to a place . |
| 10 | Many explanations have been given for the careful measurements and statistical information so frequent in Wordsworth 's early poetry , for example : but surely even this may ultimately go back to a desire to placate the scientific and Lockean tradition . |
| 11 | Yet when he says that this change is not deliberate , he raises the fear that he might go back to a Thatcherite policy , if and when he has the chance . |
| 12 | However , as a ‘ courageous ’ cut and sewer , as well as being a past owner of a Brother Electronic with garter carriage which casts off automatically , I decided that I would never go back to a latch tool cast off and that it was a waste of time in any case if I was intending to cut the fabric ! |
| 13 | ‘ All right , ’ the adjutant said , ‘ you can go back to a vulgar free-for-all if you like . |
| 14 | I think it will be , there will now , we will go back to a subject specific report because we we 're obliged to have national curriculum details |
| 15 | Boro will go back to a 4–5–1 formation to try and hit Swindon on the counter attack . |
| 16 | But I would n't wan na go back to a thirty two A not really . |
| 17 | But it would need a sixty percent vote on the council , and once they 'd do made the switch , they could n't switch back to a system by thirds for ten years . |
| 18 | I read about 3.54 , 4.3 and 3.9 , what do they mean , which is best and will it solve the problem or should I just change back to a standard cam ? |
| 19 | In February , you must trim back to a fat bud . |
| 20 | he did n't really like it , but he had a lovely week , but at least we did n't come back to a house that 's full of |
| 21 | I 've got headphones and everything so you can come back to a certain and take it |
| 22 | For fuck 's sake Dawn you 'd come back to a fucking siege . |
| 23 | Bill , could I come back to a quotation by another former Tory Prime Minister in the nineteen sixties , erm they were ragging old Douglas Hume unmercifully , the Labour Party did , when he was made Prime Minister , and , you know , erm all 's fair in politics , and Harold Wilson , I think , made the comment that the democracy of this country had ground to a halt with the appointment of the fourteenth earl , and Douglas Hume , in his sort of very self-deprecating way and his very modest way , says ‘ well , you know , I suppose if one were to ask , he 's probably the fourteenth Mr Wilson ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ We must get back to a rigid pattern , with players in the right holes . |
| 25 | It can travel back to a time 200 million years ago , long before human beings existed . |
| 26 | Having achieved this , the camera can then pull back to a wider view and re-establish the general scene before closing in again to continue a probe of the setting and its activities . |
| 27 | He resigned himself and let the car drift back to a comfortable fifty-yard gap . |