Example sentences of "[noun sg] back to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside , in the concourse , the bear-leader passed the chain round the bear 's neck , made a noose of it , and led the bear back to the Underground . |
| 2 | I ca n't see much more coming back to the town now . |
| 3 | He walked away to the desk , collecting his key , and as he walked towards the lifts he flicked a quick glance back to the girl who 'd been brought up as his daughter . |
| 4 | He wheeled his horse back to the barricade and drove the animal hard at the frightened infantrymen . |
| 5 | Doggett spurred away , followed by a reluctant Nosey , while Sharpe dismounted and led his horse back to the chestnut trees which grew at the road 's fork . |
| 6 | When the water boiled she made more tea in the silver pot , refilled the milk jug , found clean cups and a plateful of almond biscuits , and carried the tray back to the terrace . |
| 7 | The main vessels that are cut and connected to the new liver are biliary duct , the hepatic artery which supplies the liver with blood from the heart , the portal vein which drains blood from the stomach and the gut and the hepatic vein which takes the blood back to the heart . |
| 8 | Lying down increases the return of blood back to the heart and brain . |
| 9 | Veins can be identified by their faintly blue colour and they may be made to stand out by restricting the flow of blood back to the heart . |
| 10 | It 's it 's part of a programme , it helps get blood back to the hair fo We 've all got all the hair follicles there , what we have n't got is the capillary network feeding those hair follicles . |
| 11 | After contact with intraluminal antigens , the lymphocytes travel to mesenterial lymph nodes to mature and by way of peripheral blood back to the gut mucosa to secrete antibodies against the priming antigen . |
| 12 | A WOMAN has sold her car back to the garage where she bought it 32 years ago — and got more than she paid . |
| 13 | A film producer tries to persuade a famous actress back to the screen . |
| 14 | The party must periodically re-group to pass all the gear back to the leader . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm going to catch a boat back to the mainland and I 'll be in my hotel where you can call me when you 've got a clean shirt for me . ’ |
| 16 | In the end she had taken the brooch back to the shop and exchanged it for a plain silver cross on a chain . |
| 17 | Such stories , in the words of Raymond Chandler , one of their great exponents , " gave murder back to the kind of people who commit it for reasons , not just to provide a corpse . " |
| 18 | Lennie Lawrence , in his first season with the Teessiders , took the club back to the top and to mere minutes away from Wembley in the Rumbelows Cup . |
| 19 | This makes it almost impossible to get the club back to the ball consistently . |
| 20 | You can try to deny it if you like , but it wo n't get you very far when I play this tape back to the Press ! ’ |
| 21 | Rewind the tape back to the beginning and do a replay of the shots you have just taken . |
| 22 | To help you end the insert at the correct place , therefore , you first zero the tape counter at the out-point and then run the tape back to the in-point , after which you switch to insert mode and press the camera start button . |
| 23 | Run the tape back to the in-point |
| 24 | She ran like the wind back to the apartment and tumbled her few clothes into bags , then raced back through the back alleys to avoid the crowds and finally met Lucenzo pacing up and down by the column . |
| 25 | His switch back to the north is a boost after the recent moves by so many of England 's top players . |
| 26 | On the one hand , we have examples of speakers self-quoting , where the act of quoting activates a switch back to the code of the original utterance . |
| 27 | Greg tried to switch his mind back to the problem in hand . |
| 28 | They were almost at the church before he wrenched his mind back to the present . |
| 29 | She blinked , pulling her mind back to the present . |
| 30 | Karlheinz Pintsch jerked his mind back to the present . |