Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] back to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In anger she swims back to the landing-stage where he sits , his feet dangling in the water . |
| 2 | The sooner she gets back to the water , the better . |
| 3 | The person ‘ goosed ’ then chases round and tries to catch the runner before he or she gets back to the space where the goosed person was sitting . |
| 4 | And if she comes back to the house , she wo n't be able to find me , so I got to stay there . |
| 5 | Strolling , they pondered public education versus private schooling ; Johnson wondered why boys from England had been sent as far as Aberdeen to be educated , with ‘ so many good schools in England ’ , and they went back to the New Inn , to be joined there by Sir Alexander Gordon , an old friend of Johnson 's , who had sent a card in advance , and through Boswell we join their conversation as it drifts back to the stocking-making . |
| 6 | He turns back to the patient , his expression gentle again — there is no trace of a professional ‘ caring ’ in his words or the jarring chord of insincere concern in his voice . |
| 7 | It goes back to the question I posed above : what motivates people to study sex differences and to place such emphasis upon them ? |
| 8 | It goes back to the distinction between langue and parole , the system itself and the use of the system in actual social contexts . |
| 9 | There is nothing new about the way in which the game 's ruling bodies are at loggerheads ( it goes back to the League 's formation ) but the stakes are now very high . |
| 10 | And then you put a return in at the end of that and it goes back to the margin again . |
| 11 | Whether it goes back to the Iron Age or the Bronze Age , however , it has lost its original character as a wide trackway across open country . |
| 12 | She wears little make-up for work and says : ‘ It goes back to the time when I started in the job . |
| 13 | In in fact it was n't long before it was n't long before Christmas was it we we actually got together and I wrote a memo that if there is anything erm before it leaves the plant , if the tractor driver or whatever e does n't like it and it 's not acceptable then it goes back to the plant . |
| 14 | It goes back to the astronomer Ptolemy of Alexandria ( fl. c . . |
| 15 | So he cries and he goes back to the beach . |
| 16 | Aston Villa manager Ron Atkinson could also run the gauntlet of hostility at Hillsborough today when he goes back to the club he left under acrimonious circumstances two seasons ago . |
| 17 | The only ones I 'll let go are Carly and Bill , they 've got ta catch a plane , er train , and Justin 's got to come back before he heads back to the hotel . |
| 18 | Ash-Wednesday , for all its renunciation , does at times look towards the childhood of the race , but more strongly it looks back to the poet 's own childhood with which this primitivism is associated , as Eliot looks back , in language mixing ‘ Gerontion ’ , Virgil , and a new interest in his own childhood . |
| 19 | Located in the centre of Birmingham , it looks back to the city 's rich heritage with its colourful canalside setting ; and forward to a dynamic future through its direct link with the International Convention Centre and renowned Symphony Hall . |
| 20 | He shuffles back to the sofa and drops heavily into his seat . |
| 21 | The custom of asking for permission to marry has less significance nowadays ; it harks back to the time when a father had control over his unmarried daughter 's money until a husband came along . |
| 22 | A fairly long , extremely active and relatively well-documented royal life like that of Charles the Bald can serve modern students as a thread through the maze of complex power-relations , and at the same time it leads back to the heart of events . |
| 23 | with the vein 's with the valves in everywhere , yes , it 's because they 've got to somehow or other , you 've got to somehow or other get the blood back up to the heart again , it 's not under pressure is it any more , cos it 's lost a lot of its pressure and the way it gets back to the heart of course that is it 's lying alongside the bones and the arteries and as you 're walking around , okay , the arteries are still having the pressure working , the muscles are still working and the vein lies next to it and the blood is able to be milked up , it 's milked back up to a non return valve , that shuts off and it ca n't drop back down any further and the next bit does the next bit up , okay , and then that shuts off and eventually it gets back to the heart and the capillaries what will that look like when it 's bleeding ? |
| 24 | with the vein 's with the valves in everywhere , yes , it 's because they 've got to somehow or other , you 've got to somehow or other get the blood back up to the heart again , it 's not under pressure is it any more , cos it 's lost a lot of its pressure and the way it gets back to the heart of course that is it 's lying alongside the bones and the arteries and as you 're walking around , okay , the arteries are still having the pressure working , the muscles are still working and the vein lies next to it and the blood is able to be milked up , it 's milked back up to a non return valve , that shuts off and it ca n't drop back down any further and the next bit does the next bit up , okay , and then that shuts off and eventually it gets back to the heart and the capillaries what will that look like when it 's bleeding ? |
| 25 | ‘ There 's a gentleman waiting to see you , ’ says the porter , when he gets back to the hotel . |
| 26 | ‘ I knew it was possible ! ’ he calls back to the porter . |
| 27 | It is possible to install an over-large CHP unit and sell the excess electricity it generates back to the grid . |
| 28 | If , for instance , a lone ant finds a food source too large for it to bring back to the nest by itself , it runs back to the nest leaving a pheromone trail on the way . |
| 29 | does n't it come back to the issue of wh who they trustees are and who 's interest , given that trustees are expected to be independent , in the end , who 's interests do the trustees represent , because I 've had experience of working with a pension fund that was in massive surplus and the actualar actuaries refused to agree their final report until that surplus was dealt with , so that the trade unions and the employer through the trustees had to negotiate a way of spending that surplus and er given the pressures of the actuaries to say we were not allowed th the funds to continue unless you deal with this surplus , then it comes back to the issue of how the Board of Trustees is made up and if we accept that there is a degree of representation on that Board , then just exactly how that representation is divided . |
| 30 | Eventually , when it comes back to the switchboard , they will know that you 've not answered , and they can say ‘ I 'm sorry , there 's nobody there , would you like to leave a message ’ , in which case , that call will then be diverted to a particular message desk , where they will just take a very brief message which will be passed onto you . |