Example sentences of "[vb pp] back to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in nineteen eighty nine if I recall there was a divisional structure which er comprised of a number of companies within the division and there was a managing director of that division who would have reported back to the board |
| 2 | This is always agreed to and the Bill is then reported back to the House . |
| 3 | A high-pass filter was used to isolate the local ( high-frequency ) variation which was then added back to the image so that the local component was effectively doubled , thus amplifying or exaggerating its importance . |
| 4 | She had come back to the nursery ready to sympathize with Nannie about the underarm cramp caused by her inside . |
| 5 | After wartime service in the RAF he had come back to the School , and with his friends Mr. Norris and Mr. Hardie had helped to introduce Rugby to the School . |
| 6 | He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them . |
| 7 | It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field . |
| 8 | Top flight football should have come back to The Valley . |
| 9 | The three other members of the crew had just come back to the pump — we were doing " series pumping " — they had brought me a bottle of beer and I was taking a swig . |
| 10 | ‘ Two other factors will make us a better team this season — Keith Finlay has come back to the club from North Fermanagh and that has stiffened our batting while Tony Johnson from Barbados is a superb all rounder . ’ |
| 11 | It is interesting , is n't it , that er I knew the road to Damascus was long , but I did n't realise it were that long cos on the second of July the Tories moved an amendment at P and R criticising us for spending money on the Lord Mayor 's car , but I 'm glad to see that you 've come back to the fold . |
| 12 | The woman had come back to the farm 's archway from where she and two men stared nervously up the road towards Frasnes . |
| 13 | The general point here and I want to make is that er , these are n't officers ' promises these are the members ' promises and er , erm , we 've got to be careful that er when they 're all drawn together that we are n't making a hostage fortune , erm and so that I think it is very important members take aboard er what is suggested and test them themselves to see that they are realistic , I would also say that er as these promises are being considered by the various committees and I note a considerable variation in standards which will need to be addressed when the promises er , have come back to the Policy Committee , these are particularly in reference to the time required to respond to er , erm complaints etc , it 's no use having the Highways Committee wanting two weeks and incidentally on promise number two erm I think that er any up , somebody else 's point er straight forward wants to be deleted , erm the highways require two weeks to respond er , erm hearts and libraries want a , you know half a day , er and we 've got to get these er erm more or less synchronized I think , and whilst I 'm thinking Chairman on the last page er of the er favourite for , for first for agent authorities , but it does n't give any indication about the contact point and as most of our population live in the agent authorities that the er it needs to be expanded to give the contacts er points for the members of the public . |
| 14 | The hemiplegic leg is then lifted back to the floor , the trouser leg is pulled a little further up the thigh , and anchored in place by the patient crossing his unaffected leg over it . |
| 15 | He remembered clinging frantically to the stirrup-leather , and being lifted back to the saddle-bow and comforted . |
| 16 | If there is no appeal or if it is rejected , Mr Cojuangco is expected to be voted back to the board . |
| 17 | The vicar was carried back to the shore to partake of a well-earned drink . |
| 18 | Every St Kildan family owned a number of cleits and they were scattered all over the island , many of them convenient to the bird cliffs because ‘ fresh ’ birds were much heavier than those that had dried out , and everything had to be carried back to the village eventually . |
| 19 | Once he actually fainted in the mud and had to be carried back to the house and revived with cold water . |
| 20 | They formed their line again and started searching for Esmerelda while I was carried back to the house . |
| 21 | These worms have a similar food-gathering strategy to the more familiar filter-feeding tubeworms , but instead of the feathery heads of fanworms have long , sticky tentacles which they wave in the current or drag over the substrate in search of food particles which are then carried back to the mouth as the tentacles are drawn in . |
| 22 | The stricken David Lawrence is carried back to the dressing-room . |
| 23 | Once the routine is established the dog is unlikely to vary its habits significantly as it will be attracted back to the scent . |
| 24 | Although the area can then be cleaned , the puppy is likely to be attracted back to the site again unless you can remove the underlying odour . |
| 25 | The pessimistic thing was , the Hobbesians always looked back to the past , some golden age of order in the past , you know , when , when people knew what to do and er , and er , things were right as it were , and th they tend to want to restore some ideal state of order and authority that existed in the past , which was much better than now , because civilization has gone to the dogs , and been corrupted and so on . |
| 26 | The water then passes to a coil in the indirect solar cylinder , and is then pumped back to the bottom of the solar panel . |
| 27 | The water was pumped back to the pond through two central heating circulators — one through a venturi and the other to the small header pools and back via a cascade . |
| 28 | Next the first capacitor is connected back to the input so that a fresh sample voltage is taken . |
| 29 | As no form of updating had taken place the room was in need of considerable physical repair … much of the stock dated back to the school 's opening and was therefore unsuitable for the pupils and curriculum of today . |
| 30 | The British connection dated back to the time when Jacobite refugees settled here in the eighteenth century , but it was after Wellington 's victories in the region early in the 1800s that it became serious . |