Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I attend the Assembly as a Member of this House and I should like the opportunity to report back to the House , during a proper debate , on what I am doing in the Council of Europe . |
| 2 | Professor John Ashworth , vice-chairman of the committee of vice-chancellors and principals ( CVCP ) , also urged Mr MacGregor to use ‘ a heaven-sent opportunity to go back to the drawing board and look at the entire issue of how students are supported — grants , loans and fees . ’ |
| 3 | Tipping the handgrip back to the vertical allows the mercury to flow back into the bottom of the cup , so breaking the contact . |
| 4 | Of course , nobody has gone that far into space and sampled stardust to come back with a bag full of diamonds . |
| 5 | Loopy Lil began piling the tea-things on to the tray to carry back to the kitchen , and Mrs Hollidaye suggested Gloria should go and help bring in the vegetables from the shed for supper , when an insistent bell began ringing out somewhere within the house . |
| 6 | ‘ If I did wait for Garry to come back into the fold , what would you be doing ? ’ |
| 7 | Where a problem seems obviously more complex they suggest that the client makes an appointment with an adviser to come back at a time when the bureau is officially closed to the public . |
| 8 | Yes , I I Councillor is quite right , I mean it is a new new departure to centre these panels in the neighbourhoods , it was always our intention to come back after a a period had elapsed er , we , with the new system to bring to members attention the success or otherwise of the neighbourhood panels . |
| 9 | Spruce allowed his mind to run back over the meeting with the Bishop , Archdeacon and Miss Braithwaite . |
| 10 | I was excitedly interested in her attempt to get back to the original Gautama , instead of the stereotyped figure of the Scriptures and Buddhist tradition , and still more thrilled by her insistence that the Buddha had a gospel , good news to the people of his contemporary India and to later generations . |
| 11 | Press any key to get back to the DOS Shell . |
| 12 | That means I have n't got a key to get back in the house . |
| 13 | That means I have n't got a key to get back in the house . |
| 14 | ‘ In preparing this Address I had the opportunity to reflect back over the last thirty years , reliving those working days when wages were extremely low , working conditions poor and when in industry a person 's life was cheap . |
| 15 | The time taken by the sound of each click to bounce back from the rock to the bird , enables the swiftlet to judge just how far away it is from the rock wall ahead . |
| 16 | As a rule of thumb , if Target has sufficient distributable reserves to effect the purchase of its own shares , it will also have sufficient capacity to carry back against the preceding six years ' mainstream corporation tax all the ACT incurred on the distribution , so this should not be a real cost . |
| 17 | He got into the car and started the engine to drive back down the path . |
| 18 | Robbie spent the afternoon as Fen had suggested , and when she alighted from the stifling , ancient bus crowded with country folk , she felt in no mood to go back to the boat . |
| 19 | Across the road to the butcher 's where they looked in the window to see back at the reflection of Hogan 's Outfitters and realise that Sean Walsh had gone back inside to the empire that would one day be his . |
| 20 | They then tell the other child to come back into the room . |
| 21 | Regression enables the former child to look back at the situation through the eyes of the adult he or she has now become and to see the reality of it all . |
| 22 | Tess stepped out of the tomb and managed to persuade Angel to walk back to the house , without waking him . |
| 23 | One of the most common patterns of establishing chains of reference in English and a number of other languages is to mention a participant explicitly in the first instance , for example by name or title , and then use a pronoun to refer back to the same participant in the immediate context . |
| 24 | Pigeon-toed beneath her crinoline , Louisa clapped his performance , and the sound of her clapping sped across the ice to echo back from the trees . |
| 25 | Mr Whittington proved that the LCC had got themselves a very good orator to transfer back from the EMS when war was over . |
| 26 | MARK Ramprakash believes he needs help to get back to the top after being overlooked for England 's two winter tours . |
| 27 | I had a grand day at sea , but although the tide helped me to get back the wind did n't , and I used the engine to get back into the Crouch . |
| 28 | And as , in this case , we are not concerned with a specific track , there is no requirement to get back onto the original QDM . |
| 29 | This month I 'd like to take the opportunity to look back at the current series of articles featuring the Pentatonic scale , taking stock of our command of the scale all over the fretboard . |
| 30 | They had turned as if by common consent to go back into the cottage when the lights of a car , driven fast , came over the southern rise of the road . |