Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] back to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The base goes back to the RAFin SEptember 94. it 's not yet known what will be done with the land but many local people hope it 'll be used the upper H |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There is nothing what actually says , only when that cheque goes back to the bank , there 's nothing anywhere apart from the bank who says that cheque is actually made out to . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Mr Wishart hurried off to the refreshment room , luckily got served straight away and with difficulty got back to the compartment just as the guard was blowing his whistle ; the old lady took one of the paper cups of tea and murmured her thanks . |
| 6 | The it in the second sentence refers back to the ball . |
| 7 | Much of the Bible 's teaching goes back to the way we are made ; it goes back to creation itself . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Her mind skimmed back to the dinner on Friday night . |
| 10 | I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway . |
| 11 | Cobalt drove back to the Villa Fiesole . |
| 12 | As no form of updating had taken place the room was in need of considerable physical repair … much of the stock dated back to the school 's opening and was therefore unsuitable for the pupils and curriculum of today . |
| 13 | Lord Vansittart , a former Foreign Office official , had written a pamphlet entitled Black Record blaming the Germans for a record of barbarism going back to the era of the Roman Empire . |
| 14 | My mind turned back to the man Mrs Bradshaw had accosted in the garden , but I knew of no one who bore me that kind of grudge or , if he did , would take it out on me in such a petty and spiteful way . |
| 15 | With automatic professionalism Folly had carried them into the bathroom and begun to hunt around for a suitable container before her mind turned back to the question of who could have sent them . |
| 16 | His mind swung back to the Forest he had left so many years before . |
| 17 | My mind flew back to the sight of The Fat Controller 's cigar . |
| 18 | He laid the cross down and his mind flew back to the day his sisters were born … . |
| 19 | Her mind flew back to the moment last evening when Benedict had come at her out of the shadows of the hall as she had come downstairs with Lady Merchiston 's empty supper tray . |
| 20 | The tube can be lowered into the tank and once a syphon has been made , the tube picks up gravel and agitates it and once you apply your thumb to the end of the hose , the gravel falls back to the bottom , leaving you with clean substrate and a bucketful of dirty water . |
| 21 | The superintendent went back to the shop-floor and David looked at Rachel . |
| 22 | My mind went back to the scene in that bedroom and the sliding doors to the paved patio . |
| 23 | My mind cast back to the winter of last November when I stood on this same platform awaiting the arrival of a new intake . |
| 24 | Annie 's mind cast back to the number of his children who had defied Jonadab round this very table . |
| 25 | Press any key to get back to the DOS Shell . |
| 26 | Only when she fumbles with the tiny metal flap of my zip does my mind shake back to the present . |
| 27 | Giving a long shudder , she turned too quickly and white powder cascaded back to the floor . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This however is unlikely , and that the idea of decorating a metope with a figured scene goes back to the beginning of the Doric order is shown by the painted terracotta examples of the seventh century ( above , p. 13 ) . |
| 30 | Ace half turned back to the shuttle , pointed towards the sprouting hemisphere ( like chunks of cheddar stuck all over half a grapefruit , she thought ) , and aimed the suit towards the shape that looked like the nose of an asteroid cruncher . |