Example sentences of "and [verb] back to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , this is not an Oxford cartoon either , but it 's a looting soldier , and very much , I think , underlines what people felt about soldiers around the place , and to go back to the overcrowding , erm the great problem was that constantly not only soldiers , but a great many other people , court officials , court servants , barbers , whoever , erm all had to found accommodation , and because St Aldate 's was so near the court , a great many of them were of course connected with the court , they had some high ranking ones . |
| 2 | Howard escapes from the hospital and goes back to the scene of the robbery where everything is strangely familiar . |
| 3 | She loses interest and goes back to the television . |
| 4 | She turns and goes back to the house . |
| 5 | Return to pan , stir in the Madeira , season and bring back to the boil . |
| 6 | Cornelius slammed down the receiver and stalked back to the car . |
| 7 | She slapped a handful of cold cream on her face and tissued off the exaggerated make-up she 'd worn for the showing , pulled her hair back into a ponytail , laced on her canvas sneakers , and stalked back to the showroom where Raimondo was hovering over a glowering Nicolo . |
| 8 | Sweden is the latest country to suffer from criminals fiddling with mobile phones to re-direct bills — thousands of phones were stolen , altered and sold back to the market as ‘ no charge phones ’ : 10 people have been arrested so far for the crime , which came to light when some subscribers reported bills of $70,000 more than they were expecting ; police said that some of the men arrested were associated with the the Swedish state phone company Televerket and L M Ericsson Telefon AB , Reuter reports from Stockholm . |
| 9 | Sara mounted her bicycle and rode back to the cottage . |
| 10 | The leaders turned and rode back to the inferno of a village . |
| 11 | Halfway through cockpit checks the crew decided that the aircraft was unserviceable , so they all got out and tramped back to the Squadron offices . |
| 12 | Crack of dawn after a long night … made himself coffee and got back to the station as the car was disappearing from view . |
| 13 | Chinless looked up again and got back to the driver 's seat and headed east . |
| 14 | But by the time the police had secured the exemption and got back to the brothel , the keeper would have changed his nationality and they would have to start all over again . |
| 15 | Then one afternoon Louise Raymond visited Len Seager in hospital and reported back to the rest of the team . |
| 16 | So Moely turned , and swam back to the shore as quickly as he could . |
| 17 | He slipped a clean fork quietly on Nicandra 's right hand and moved back to the sideboard , the rhubarb fool and the junket , in his perfect colourless way . |
| 18 | She said nothing , but instead left the two young people by the window and moved back to the duty manager 's desk . |
| 19 | They saw him start and jump back to the shelter of the bank . |
| 20 | She should have ticked off Miss Vine 's name on her list and been ready to carry the empty plates and covers back to the van . |
| 21 | Outside the venue , the Inspirals climb into their cramped tour van and head back to the hotel exuding quiet satisfaction . |
| 22 | I 've had enough of the lights , so we turn round and head back to the house . |
| 23 | Here they spend the next 5 months until the short rains in November when they gradually form columns and head back to the shortgrass plains . |
| 24 | Kirk elders were instructed to visit offenders and report back to the Session . |
| 25 | An Outreach scheme has been devised which divides the parish into six areas , each manned by teams of church members whose job it is to identify ways in which they can provide help and report back to the church . |
| 26 | The local authority must complete the investigation and report back to the court within eight weeks unless the court directs otherwise . |
| 27 | It will be handed to the working party of East Hampshire Road Safety Council who have to investigate , and report back to the matter to their main committee by April 15th . |
| 28 | ‘ Displacement activity , ’ she said and headed back to the mantelpiece where she swapped a silver-framed photograph for a white porcelain horse . |
| 29 | He turned and headed back to the Montego , pausing as he opened the door . |
| 30 | Cooke and Baxter followed the ritualistic path to the local bars , breaking an enforced curfew , and staggered back to the hotel at 4.00 am where , predictably , they were caught by trainer Walter McRae . |