Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] back [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing to go back to the flat for ; the building would be empty , and here in the city centre she was , at least , among people . |
| 2 | So then it was up to me to go back to the script and find what I could to give me a lead . |
| 3 | The most usual course of action for disappointed applicants will be for them to write back to the Com |
| 4 | She used the cry of her voice to draw them to her , allowing them first to fly away and then encouraging them to swoop back at the height of their arc of flight . |
| 5 | This is a short-cut walkers are not supposed to take , to prevent erosion , but it would have taken a man with a Rotweiler and a machine-gun to stop me , so desperate was I to get back to the car and home . |
| 6 | ‘ Although our main aim is to provide accommodation and care ’ , he says , ‘ we also give advice and support to homeless people and try to assist them to resettle back in the community . |
| 7 | Although I would have kept all the notes and drafts and I could , therefore , reconstruct how a poem is written , it 's my experience that once it 's been written it 's very hard for me to imagine back to the time when it was n't written . |
| 8 | I said if you had n't I 'd get you to go back for a chat with him . ’ |
| 9 | The young man know as Sandro appeared at the house and his parents said ‘ we do n't want you to go back to the Hare Krishna movement ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ I want you to go back to the house and telephone the Incident Room . |
| 11 | Wycliffe said : ‘ I want you to come back to the Incident Room with me where you will be asked to make a full statement . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I want you to get back to the docks and get everybody out as fast as you can . |
| 13 | ‘ Midge , I want you to get back into the car , close the doors and lock them from the inside . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I asked — and I mean asked — you to get back into the car for you own safety . |
| 15 | I want you to think back to the story of Mufaro |
| 16 | Leonora forced herself to go back over the dream sequence in every terrifying detail . |
| 17 | But at last , as a tongue probed an aching tooth , she forced herself to think back to the scene at Brynteg , and found the exercise distasteful and painful , but reassuring . |
| 18 | A year ago Nicky , Rob 's girlfriend of about eight months convinced him to go back to the ice pack that nearly killed him . |
| 19 | I 'm an Army officer and all I want to do is persuade him to go back to the Army . ’ |
| 20 | On this occasion he could only get 5in so he told one of the shunters , George Dyson , what had happened and asked him to go back along the fish vans and find out if a bag was off . |
| 21 | After a long session trying on clothes , she was walking out with her purchases when a man tapped her on the shoulder and asked her to go back into the shop . |
| 22 | Rachel asked her to come back after the show , when someone would take her to her sister 's lodgings . ’ |
| 23 | We had a few drinks and all thought he seemed a bit of a laugh so we asked him to come back to the shop with us and have a bit of a sing . |
| 24 | The queasiness which had first compelled him to come back to the house that evening clawed him again , and kept him in the chair under her fond glances and bids to intimacy . |
| 25 | Fran turned off the shower and wrapped a huge fluffy towel around her to walk back into the bedroom — then came to an abrupt halt when she found Luke standing by the door . |
| 26 | They had fallen , both of them , he could picture it exactly in his mind , and he could remember Kairallah , calling to him to get back to the car . |
| 27 | Maybe there was some difficulty about Lilian 's dress or he was waiting for her to get back from the hairdresser 's . |
| 28 | War on the ground is really a man with a large field with curved corrugated metal huts to keep pigs in to grub all the vegetation off to feed them up to get themselves eaten by other men to help those men to have the energy to work to make the curved corrugated metal huts and grow other food in other fields that gets eaten by another lot of men who leave some of it to feed back to the pigs . |
| 29 | Another electronic effect , pioneered for this story , and thereafter used in all subsequent Dalek serials , was the Dalek extermination effect-a very simple trick of opening a camera 's aperture too wide , thereby admitting in too much light , swamping the camera 's electronics and causing it to send back to the gallery a negative image . |
| 30 | Therefore , if a clause giving a reason for such an action has a pronominal subject , we expect it to refer back to the questioner . |