Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] back to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began to realise that life like this could not last for ever and so I asked to go back to the Cheshire Home for a holiday . |
| 2 | quite a few people have seen the conditions here and asked to go back to where they came from |
| 3 | if one of the eldest wakes up got to go back to bed . |
| 4 | at Univ , got to go back to University . |
| 5 | PARIS — The wave of strikes that has gripped France for a month showed some signs of abating yesterday as prison officers agreed to go back to work , writes Sarah Lambert . |
| 6 | One evening I reluctantly agreed to go back to school and attempt to teach him the solo . |
| 7 | Next summer mum was told she would have to go back into hospital for a long time , and because I already knew the place , I agreed to go back to the Cheshire Home for this period . |
| 8 | After you 'd had this erm punishment ere you expected to go back to your lessons straight away , how long did it hurt , did your hands |
| 9 | As soon as he 'd seen Buzz safely on the plane to Nice , he planned to drive back to London , where he would telephone Annabel in New York before seeing Miranda . |
| 10 | Three of the men agreed to come back to the captain , and we put the others in my cave . |
| 11 | He even tried sneaking back to the library at night , thinking the Bookman might appear after dark , but had to stop this when he backed into Mr Crangle , who was up to the same thing . |
| 12 | On the following Monday she proposed to go back to the job she had taken to make it financially possible for Peter and her to buy their little home . |
| 13 | Gerry promised he 'd take care , promised to come back to me , but … ’ |
| 14 | The pilot tried to turn back to Schipol airport . |
| 15 | The jeep was bouncing them about mercilessly as the Brigadier tried to get back to the village in time for the Captain and the Substitute to go back to Florence and eat . |
| 16 | He tried to get back to the drawing room unheard , but she was waiting . |
| 17 | In football , there was an early shock for Liverpool at Anfield as the champions tried to get back to the top of the table with Arsenal playing Leeds United at Highbury tomorrow . |
| 18 | He tried to think back to the first Mystery he had seen , but he could only remember ‘ Eve ’ as that unshaven , white-skinned man who had left them outside the lock-up in Greathaven and gone to find work on the boats . |
| 19 | I talked to Mum , and she tried to think back to the day she met Elaine , and she remembered I was born in a nursing home in Birkleigh . |
| 20 | Countless au pairs fled sobbing back to Bilbao after he swooped on their smalls yelling , ‘ Just as I thought ! |
| 21 | Orders came in , and that helped the warehouse people unpack the boxes and despatch them ; the information got fed back to the editor to tell him what the sales were , and it was a continuous process and all of the people tended to see the computer as working very much for them , rather than for the other department next door . |
| 22 | The information got fed back to the editor to tell him what the sales were . |
| 23 | So I went out , feeling distinctly lonely , and wandered through the empty , narrow streets of lunch-time Parma until the time really came to go back to school . |
| 24 | After countless ages I seemed to come back to a real realisation that I was continuing to breathe , even if with difficulty , and did n't seem in immediate danger of stopping . |
| 25 | And , as one later moved into other divisions to be taught by other people one always seemed to come back to the Roman Conquest of Britain , which I found particularly boring , and learnt nothing . |
| 26 | ‘ … but , with their parents in hospital , I feel any such move would be counter-productive , ’ he 'd added curtly , dismissing the subject as he 'd turned back to the pile of papers in front of him . |
| 27 | As the sun rose higher , shortening the shadows and drawing the dew from the grass , most of the rabbits came wandering back to the sun-flecked shade among the cow-parsley along the edge of the ditch . |
| 28 | Everything always seemed to lead back to that place . |
| 29 | It did n't want to stay there and came bounding back to her . |
| 30 | Archer 's expression was grim , his mouth closed tight briefly as it came flooding back to him . |