Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] back to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The director duly reported back to base camp that Douglas had rejected every concession he had made in order to get him to accept the part . |
| 2 | You may be written off as a malingerer or a neurotic or , perhaps even worse , as someone who must be gently humoured back to health . |
| 3 | The swimming section was more or less brought back to mind to me the other day when they showed the old Stoke bathing place . |
| 4 | In the summer of 1617 Best travelled back to Yorkshire to manage the family estate at Elmswell , near Driffield , which had been bought by his father in 1598 , and to supervise the upbringing of his young siblings and half-siblings . |
| 5 | Others present included Lord David Cecil , who had lately come back to Oxford to teach English Literature at New College , and Adam Fox , the college chaplain . |
| 6 | One of the men has already come back to Britain voluntarily , the older one is fighting extradition |
| 7 | He stayed in Moscow for two months before he returned to St. Petersburg and soon sailed back to Scotland . |
| 8 | ‘ My family were Huguenots , my lady , and therefore unwanted in la belle France , ’ D'Alembord 's contemptuous scorn for France made the Countess bridle , but he had already turned back to Lucille . |
| 9 | As our pick-up ti me approached we mustered under our patrol commander and soon moved back to base , tired but satisfied that we 'd done a good job . |
| 10 | As he had finally got back to Mrs Lorimer 's and was washing his face , he was wondering how much of the dirty water of the drug scene had washed over Rose and Steve . |
| 11 | I 've just got back to England . |
| 12 | They were soon summoned back to London . |
| 13 | I have to admit that after three years of using Q&A I have n't memorized all of the mainly function key-driven keyboard shortcuts , but those that I ca n't remember are easily brought back to mind with a tap of the F1 key which lists them . |
| 14 | Using the hypothetical examples above , for instance , this is how it might work out : skilled employment ( 4 ) the top possible score : employment duration — she has just gone back to work ( 1 ) ; housing — she has had to move to a smaller flat(l) so has n't been there long ( 0 ) ; she does have a bank account ( 4 ) ; but is separated ( 0 ) ; and quite young ( 2 ) . |
| 15 | By Paul Byrne chief reporter A GROUP of British Rail workers who were being paid thousands of pounds to do nothing have finally gone back to work . |
| 16 | ‘ As I heard it , my lord , he 's already gone back to Hereford . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't know , ’ he went on , ‘ that you 'd already gone back to England . |
| 18 | Some German agents must have stood out like sore thumbs ( One , codenamed ‘ Garbo ’ , could never figure out English pounds , shillings , and pence , and once reported back to Berlin from Glasgow that there were men there ‘ who would do anything for a litre of wine ’ ( p. 112 ) . ) |
| 19 | Needs are always related back to capitalism 's demand for the social reproduction of its labour force . |
| 20 | Ian Clarke , a Bank of England executive , and his wife Jacqueline promptly turned back to Surrey so they would be nearer Heathrow and Gatwick airports — and better placed to take off for Australia . |
| 21 | As other members of the pride moved in to share the meal , the remaining zebras in the herd at first startled by the drama quickly settled back to grazing . |
| 22 | He never let Liverpool down , but the management have always gone back to Bruce Grobbelaar . |
| 23 | Most scholars viewed the acquisition of advanced knowledge and skills across a wide spectrum of academic fields as extremely beneficial once taken back to China . |
| 24 | There he was gradually nursed back to health , but another eight years passed before he became champion again . |
| 25 | The long-awaited supercomputer had been promised for last year , but the target date was later pushed back to October 1993 . |
| 26 | The crippled boat was later towed back to Scarborough harbour . |
| 27 | Consequently , when he had found suitable accommodation , his wife and children had also gone back to England . |
| 28 | ‘ When I realised the ring had probably gone back to England that was one of the first things I checked . ’ |
| 29 | However , it was realised the AI Mk 10 radar fitted in the rear cockpit could be housed in a pod beneath the engine , and of 328 NF.IIs planned only 37 were built , these being later converted back to Mk 1 standard . |
| 30 | Any wounded or distressed creatures that are handed to us are carefully nursed back to health whilst our breeding programmes produce an ever-increased number of baby marine creatures , many of which are then released into the wild . |