Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] back to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British tanks pushed them further back to the Hindenberg Line . |
| 2 | Starting in this issue , our six-month course will begin by taking you right back to the basics . |
| 3 | To hammer home the point , he denied his players from having a late Christmas dinner by taking them straight back to the club 's training ground . |
| 4 | Even before he got to her she was mesmerised , the dark eyes holding her with complete ease , and she had to bring herself quickly back to the present to do what she had planned and set matters on an even footing straight away . |
| 5 | His behaviour may be such as to demonstrate that his reversion has taken him right back to the use of the ruthlessness which preceded civilisation . |
| 6 | As he expected , this path , newly uncovered by the rockfall , led him impossibly back to the tunnel where Urnst had dropped the glove . |
| 7 | Hilda 's home was near the convent , and the tube train seemed to be boring a hole into the past , bearing her inexorably back to the source of her purest happiness and pain . |
| 8 | Instead , feeling as though with each step she took she was treading on her dreams , destroying them forever , she followed him mutely back to the sofa and seated herself where she had been before . |
| 9 | Nicholas sent him off back to the tunnel , and glanced upwards . |
| 10 | She nodded mutely , and followed him meekly back to the nurses ' station . |
| 11 | Her mind brought her abruptly back to the present when she thought , that was until two years ago when Jessie left the Dame School . |
| 12 | You see I 've been entrusted with the task of getting him safely back to the Reich and I 've little more than three weeks to do it in . ’ |
| 13 | 4 If the ward nurse is satisfied with the patient 's condition she accepts him back into her care and escorts him quietly back to the ward ensuring his safety by maintaining the airway and close observation . |
| 14 | The food-finder might instead single out one other nest mate , and then lead it alone back to the food source . |
| 15 | Take it away back to the office . |
| 16 | He heard a pigeon going over and over its announcement with that bounce at the end which sent it always back to the beginning again — coo coooo cou-cou ; coo cooo cou-cou . |
| 17 | Its end is both sticky and muscular so that a toad can use it first to grasp a worm or a slug and then to carry it bodily back to the mouth . |
| 18 | If a break does occur the wire tends to coil up , and it is easy to make the mistake of just tying the broken ends together and towing it straight back to the launch point for the next launch . |
| 19 | and the other , the rest of it is on the end of that , but I 've wound it almost back to the beginning , that 's Fantasia at the beginning of the tape |
| 20 | They dragged themselves slowly back to the form-room and sat on their desks , waiting . |
| 21 | Which seems to bring us right back to the question we started with : is Europe actually marketable ? |
| 22 | But volume four takes us right back to the peak with a marvellous account of Dirac and his contributions to quantum theory — hardly surprisingly , in view of Mehra 's previous involvement with Dirac and celebrations of his work . |
| 23 | This , of course , brings us right back to the beginning of the divine drama . |