Example sentences of "back to [pos pn] [noun sg] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they went back to their chuckling 's and grinnings while I made a scowling withdrawal . |
| 2 | Ashley met me in the Jac that night , listened to my woes , bought me drink when I ran out of money ( I 'm sure I was short-changed at the bar ) even though she probably had less dosh than I did , and listened to my woes all over again when we went back to her mum 's and sat up till God knows when , talking low so we would n't wake Dean in the next room . |
| 3 | Perhaps she 'll deliver it back to her mum 's . |
| 4 | Alice up North , back to her father 's territory though at first she did not see this . |
| 5 | She was going back to her father 's house to show people what she had written in her schoolbooks about them . |
| 6 | The American boy apologized haltingly in French as he knelt to return the shivering pet to her , but once the animal was safely in her arms again she turned and fled shyly back to her father 's side without speaking . |
| 7 | Her eyes came back to her father 's face and she drew a breath . |
| 8 | She was brought back to her mother 's voice , as though enticing her , yet with a slight sneer in it now , saying , ‘ It would give you an opportunity to wear some of those clothes you 've been spending your money on lately . ’ |
| 9 | At the drink-up after their New York appearance , the band were hanging out with ex-Nymph INGRE LORRE , who invited them all back to her mother 's house for a Halloween party ( surely an offer not to be passed up ) . |
| 10 | So the huge , blundering , privileged girl , now seventeen , went back to her mother 's comfortable house . |
| 11 | Why are you so urgent to get away from your husband 's house and back to your father 's ? |
| 12 | So I left Mala to it , went back to my cabin 's screens and terminals , and set back to probing the data banks for something about phetam . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll go back to my dad 's business until Christmas but then I 'll have to look for another job , hopefully I 'll be able to stay in golf . |
| 14 | All I want is silence , and to go back to my father 's house . ’ |
| 15 | So I went back to my mam 's . |
| 16 | I piled the kids and what few possessions we had into the pram and , balancing the baby bath on the hood , walked the few miles back to my Pop 's house . |
| 17 | And er it actually went back to my grandfather 's day when he always wanted to get one of these machines and er he could n't afford it . |
| 18 | Eventually , stone-cold-sober-seeming but perhaps too drunk to drive , he treks off through the dubs of a drizzle ( Thales said the world was made of water , the ‘ primary element ’ , and he handni even been to Glasgow ) back to his bachelor 's tenement flat ( Coelebs still in search of a wife ) . |
| 19 | I were n't gon na put myself out for them then he got up and stormed out and then he went back to his sister 's took his |
| 20 | George Borrow was to wander many roads before being invited back to his father 's home county . |
| 21 | Henceforth he supported York until Anselm 's death brought him back to his father 's policy of supporting the unity of the Church under the southern see , By this time , however , it was too late to alter the general swing away from overlordships such as that claimed by Canterbury . |
| 22 | ‘ Never , ’ Harrison said , lying , for his whole purpose was to get back to his father 's farm to work out when he could return and what he could offer Mary . |
| 23 | The young man with the terrible toothache — Harrison — had sought her out and , clumsily but resolutely , he had told her that he intended to leave the quarries , go back to his father 's farm , assess what his prospects were there and then come back and … his resolution had run out at that point but the aim was clear . |
| 24 | Lachlan Watt had been about to leave Hamish and Antonia 's party when Fergus had fallen over and Fiona had decided it was time to take her husband home ; she had offered Lachy a lift back to his brother 's house , but when they 'd got there Fergus had seemed fast asleep , snoring loudly and taking no apparent notice of Fiona shaking him and shouting at him ; Lachy had volunteered to come back to the castle to help get Fergus out of the car and upstairs to bed ; Fiona would run Lachy back afterwards . |
| 25 | Almost half of Edward 's sede vacante presentations were retrospective , some dating back to his grandfather 's reign , and most being based on fictitious entitlement ; considerable temptations were open to unscrupulous candidates , armed with dubious history , to challenge the rights of sitting tenants . |
| 26 | Indeed , if you go back to his grandfather 's generation , they go right underground , for Bill Larnach comes from the solid traditions of the Durham miners . |
| 27 | Their only son , also Philip , decided to come back to his mother 's home to live . |
| 28 | When Leach discovered Jacqueline was sleeping with Tommy he moved back to his mother 's house in Slough , and at Easter , 1989 , Tommy moved into Jacqueline 's flat . |
| 29 | He was then released on bail and , as is the custom , the police required conditions of his bail that he should not go back to his girlfriend 's address to prevent any possibility of any further offending . |