Example sentences of "back to [pos pn] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A short sojourn by the seaside , back to their country farm , back to the hospital , and then the end . |
| 2 | Twenty thousand Ski Americans going back to their valley farms , after an evening infected with urban sleaze . |
| 3 | Even moving from high to low cost areas can raise difficulties — employees may doubt that they will ever be able to move back to their home areas or other more expensive regions once they have committed themselves to living in a lower cost housing area . |
| 4 | The aim was that they might go back to their home territories " further equipped in mind and spirit for the tasks to which they are appointed " . |
| 5 | Unaware that these were the last rites of disco , the aliens reported back to their Mistress ruler on the home planet . |
| 6 | A House have been the recipients of the kind of underwhelming apathy that would lead most bands to go back to their day jobs and while away their evening swilling pints In The Norseman , mulling over what might have been . |
| 7 | But once these hurdles are overcome , women soon stop harking back to their village background and comparing everything with it . |
| 8 | If not , any that survived could simply be posted back to their parent units and the whole scheme could be rapidly forgotten . |
| 9 | Three years ago they went through a ‘ cultural revolution ’ like Mao 's in China : Personnel apparatchiks were sent out into the field to become generalists , with only dotted lines back to their personnel masters . |
| 10 | There was nothing she could do to warn him about trouble except beat a hasty retreat back to their hotel suite in Cascais before Jason could catch up with her . |
| 11 | they made this big discovery they all went back to their hotel rooms . |
| 12 | On the way back to their Wall patrol route , Debbie and John come across Mr John Runnings , a seventy-two-year-old American who travels to Berlin every summer to protest about the Wall . |
| 13 | Unofficially , it was clear that the scientists had been sent back to their drawing boards . |
| 14 | In April the officers in the downtown area arrived at the riot scene but for whatever reason withdrew back to their command posts ‘ instead of staying there to control the illegal activity ’ . |
| 15 | There was an unexplained delay of five or ten minutes — perhaps while the searchlight crews came back to their action stations on the great lights , including the five-foot beam on the west bank a mile or so downstream from the port , and the light commanding the river from the end of the Old Mole . |
| 16 | It takes Tuscon : Green On Red go back to their roots GREEN ON RED : Too Much Fun DAN ‘ N ’ CHUCK head back to Tuscan to find their roots and team up with guest co-producer and long-time band member JD Foster . |
| 17 | Night fell , the candle flames flickered out and the ghosts of the dead came back to their resting place ( or so the old wives say ) , somewhere sacred , a fitting protection against the assaults of the demons . |
| 18 | But very soon now the brents would be flying back to their breeding grounds in Arctic Russia . |
| 19 | Erm which is points up a weakness there on the public relations side there I mean going back to their post share repurchase they said that they 'd got no new products in the pipeline , no research and development really sort of throwing anything up in the near future . |
| 20 | The Germans took them , man and wife , back to their war factories . |
| 21 | This basic pattern was further complicated as hospital closure programmes progressed and patients were moved back to their health authority of origin . |
| 22 | ‘ Suzi and I are going back to her dance studio and she 's going to put me through the dance routine again . ’ |
| 23 | So , back to her Church bit . |
| 24 | Rhonda was superfluous to this scene , and had disappeared back to her dressing room . |
| 25 | I think she 's been back to her G P . |
| 26 | They finished chatting in the afternoon , and the researcher went back to her hotel room . |
| 27 | Within a fortnight of coming back to her council house she woke one morning to find all the house 's utilities had failed . |
| 28 | On the Sunday after the beginning of the War , with his son wearing the embarrassingly new cap and blazer that were then the proud symbols of recruitment to the grammar-school élite , my father drove my grandmother back to her home village of Kidlington in Oxfordshire . |
| 29 | The gossip is that she is thinking of resigning from the practice and going back to her home town . |
| 30 | She took him back to her Streatham pad by taxi , paying for it out of his wallet . |