Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] back to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the summer of 1617 Best travelled back to Yorkshire to manage the family estate at Elmswell , near Driffield , which had been bought by his father in 1598 , and to supervise the upbringing of his young siblings and half-siblings . |
| 2 | Since he had not come back to Møn he must be dead — there could be no other explanation . |
| 3 | Others present included Lord David Cecil , who had lately come back to Oxford to teach English Literature at New College , and Adam Fox , the college chaplain . |
| 4 | One of the men has already come back to Britain voluntarily , the older one is fighting extradition |
| 5 | He stayed in Moscow for two months before he returned to St. Petersburg and soon sailed back to Scotland . |
| 6 | ‘ My family were Huguenots , my lady , and therefore unwanted in la belle France , ’ D'Alembord 's contemptuous scorn for France made the Countess bridle , but he had already turned back to Lucille . |
| 7 | As he had finally got back to Mrs Lorimer 's and was washing his face , he was wondering how much of the dirty water of the drug scene had washed over Rose and Steve . |
| 8 | I 've just got back to England . |
| 9 | They were soon summoned back to London . |
| 10 | Why had Parr not gone back to England ? |
| 11 | ‘ As I heard it , my lord , he 's already gone back to Hereford . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't know , ’ he went on , ‘ that you 'd already gone back to England . |
| 13 | Some German agents must have stood out like sore thumbs ( One , codenamed ‘ Garbo ’ , could never figure out English pounds , shillings , and pence , and once reported back to Berlin from Glasgow that there were men there ‘ who would do anything for a litre of wine ’ ( p. 112 ) . ) |
| 14 | Ian Clarke , a Bank of England executive , and his wife Jacqueline promptly turned back to Surrey so they would be nearer Heathrow and Gatwick airports — and better placed to take off for Australia . |
| 15 | He never let Liverpool down , but the management have always gone back to Bruce Grobbelaar . |
| 16 | Most scholars viewed the acquisition of advanced knowledge and skills across a wide spectrum of academic fields as extremely beneficial once taken back to China . |
| 17 | The long-awaited supercomputer had been promised for last year , but the target date was later pushed back to October 1993 . |
| 18 | The crippled boat was later towed back to Scarborough harbour . |
| 19 | Consequently , when he had found suitable accommodation , his wife and children had also gone back to England . |
| 20 | ‘ When I realised the ring had probably gone back to England that was one of the first things I checked . ’ |
| 21 | However , it was realised the AI Mk 10 radar fitted in the rear cockpit could be housed in a pod beneath the engine , and of 328 NF.IIs planned only 37 were built , these being later converted back to Mk 1 standard . |
| 22 | The reports duly brought back to Joshua by the spies are very different from those of their ill-fated counterparts in Numbers 13 . |
| 23 | During the war , his entourage was frequently scandalised by his affairs with Frenchwomen in occupied France , and when , in 1923 , he was secretly smuggled back to Germany from exile in Holland , his friends hustled him through breakfast out of fear that he might fall in love with some hotel chambermaid and thus jeopardise the whole plot . |
| 24 | Mia has now flown back to America with the one-year-old dog , which she has named Tip because it came from Co Tipperary . |
| 25 | Maybe the girl had n't reported back to Myeloski , told him that she had failed to seduce him . |
| 26 | They were all Dreamers , and if Daine was n't brought back to Princetown , things would go badly for all Dreamers everywhere . |
| 27 | He was then driven back to Winson Green jail , Birmingham , to await his trial . |
| 28 | The four were then taken back to Douglas . |
| 29 | The goods were then taken back to Mansha 's home where his girlfriend heard the men and saw Randhawa throwing the stolen jewellery around the kitchen . |
| 30 | I was quite sure of that for my father had again gone back to Rye marshes to reinforce the defences . |