Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] back to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Aug. 8 the British hostage John McCarthy was released in Beirut ; he was swiftly transported to the Syrian capital , Damascus , and thence flown back to the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager . |
| 3 | As I have heard from his crew , he baled out when he eventually got back to the south coast of England . |
| 4 | You 'd better hustle back to the stand , pronto ! |
| 5 | Shop manager , Jim Willcock 's been allowed home from hospital , but he 's not well enough to go back to the co-op in Cam . |
| 6 | 3 Stir in the peanut butter and gently bring back to the boil until the sauce thickens and goes glossy and smooth . |
| 7 | But he above is a representative of the general tone of the interview which constantly referred back to the suspiciously ‘ instant ’ political aspects of the band . |
| 8 | Here , we can perhaps refer back to the discussion of graduate employment presented early in the chapter . |
| 9 | The proper equipment makes the whole operation far easier and safer , and encourages instructors to practise those exercises which can so often result in a long walk back to the launch point . |
| 10 | However , the exhibition does not necessarily refer back to the previous event , and there is hardly ever a sense of continuing from where the previous exhibition left off . |
| 11 | There was no one about in the woods , so she 'd better hurry back to the town as fast as she could . |
| 12 | We have only to look back to the debates about language across the curriculum to remember the puerile arguments over whose responsibility it was to teach language skills . |
| 13 | So going back to the parallel , have you had any thoughts about it ? |
| 14 | Usually , what with shooting and swimming with the others and riding up at Biddy 's , he had only got back to the garden shed in time to flake out until morning . |
| 15 | She was soon forgetful of the time , however , her thoughts swiftly going back to the man who had put his finger on her doorbell at that hour in the morning , and kept it there . |
| 16 | We must make sure we do n't keep on disturbing the seed 's growth by constantly going back to the same people and badgering them . |
| 17 | A second application of this technique only leads back to the original solution , apart from an arbitrary complex constant . |
| 18 | After a week together , Jakki flew back to Britain in floods of tears , only to fly back to the States again three days later to interview Madonna . |
| 19 | ‘ And I 'm only coming back to the flat to get my bag , if that 's the way you feel . |
| 20 | The air was thick with smoke and he was not offered dinner afterwards , merely driven back to the organizer 's home many miles away . |
| 21 | He carried on flying , looking for a place to land and so flew back to the wireless station and decided to land in a field next to it . |
| 22 | When Leo made some small movement , she was suddenly brought back to the present and became mortifyingly aware that she had just emptied her heart to a virtual stranger . |
| 23 | Thomson 's free kick Pearce gets it clear and then won back by Hill but has only gone back to the Forest skipper . |
| 24 | A potentially confusing indefinite referring expression , a man armed with a bayonet , apparently relates back to the period before he was identified as ‘ a dissident Spanish priest ’ . |
| 25 | Right , so what we 're going to do is create a dummy variable to test that hypothesis , right , so if you press the escape key , right , and work your way back towards erm the data processing sort of environment , so go back to the post regression menu through the backtracking menu erm , when you 're in the backtracking menu , go to option six , which is the process plot edit option right , now press the return key in the data processing menu , right , and that will get you to the data processing environment when we can start messing about with our variables . |
| 26 | He has a tendency to give abstract theory in unnecessarily dense language without examples ; this is difficult to absorb , and consequently , when we reach the extended analyses in Chapter 5 , there is a temptation constantly to flick back to the earlier chapters to try to clarify the theory . |
| 27 | We 'd better go back to the burrow . |
| 28 | ‘ I suppose we 'd better go back to the car , ’ he said in a carefully neutral tone . |
| 29 | ‘ We 'd better go back to the car , ’ he announced , and , without more ado placed a hand beneath her elbow and guided her back to his car . |
| 30 | Their careers together go back to the 1960s with Alex Welsh with a later spell with with Humphrey Lyttelton and they obviously relished the chance to play together again . |