Example sentences of "back to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Last year was abysmal , we conceeded so many goals because the defence could n't cope most notable occasion was Man City away where 2 of their 4 goals came from shite defending ie defenders unable to pass back to the goalie who would then pick it up . |
2 | The ones I 've got at the moment are having a little difficulty in working things out , one does n't realise that it 's not best to try to head the ball back to the goalie when there 's a man breathing down the back of his neck , the other has n't been able to find his brain and the oldest one of the lot is always injured . |
3 | I seem to remember a couple of his headers back to the goalie going astray last year ( including one in that humil iating defeat at Man City , 4–0 ) . |
4 | And came running back in stark terror a few minutes later as if all the hounds of hell were after him , and Preston , who thought they were , a half-length behind all the way back to the alley behind their two houses where they stopped to get their breath back before they went in . |
5 | For many , the scramble for enough cash to afford the free market prices inevitably leads back to the state shops , and specifically to beer . |
6 | In the middle of the night , the ruling party 's congress wound up its work with a resolution to hand back to the state all superfluous assets . |
7 | He was sentenced to two years in prison , and was ordered to pay back to the state several thousand Swiss francs which he had used illegally to arrange a place at a Swiss university for Zhivkov 's grandson [ see p. 38017 ] . |
8 | We have a right to ask for it to be put back to the state it was in . ’ |
9 | He replaced the receiver then hurried back to the water 's edge where he gathered together his tackle before returning to the cabin to pack . |
10 | The sooner she gets back to the water , the better . |
11 | Campbell now turned back to the water . |
12 | So to find out how much you pay for , how much actual energy has been used up , you think it , again going back to the water , if we have a big tank full of water and we 're using it up , this time in terms of power , erm if we have something that 's using up water at the rate of say six gallons a minute and someone 's going to charge you for your water . |
13 | Her hand was wet and she gripped the receiver tightly , thinking back to the night of the February dance and how the telephone was fixed to the wall beside the door . |
14 | God 's claim to the firstborn goes back to the night of the Passover ( Exodus 12 ) . |
15 | And lead him out to the Waiting Room where he 's allowed to linger and holler for a while before we ferry him back to the night . |
16 | This also enables any eventual profit to be kept in the long term , avoiding the problem that if it is retained , any eventual surplus would have to go back to the borrower . |
17 | I do not cast directly over the swim , but several yards beyond it and draw back to the swim before the bait can settle , covering all areas of the swim and many spots out of it . |
18 | I cast and make sure the worm lands three or four yards further than the baited area , which allows me to pull it back to the swim and sink the line at the same time . |
19 | You 'd better hustle back to the stand , pronto ! |
20 | We go back to the incompetence argument again . |
21 | For her life 's sake Chesarynth turned reluctantly and made her way back to the tutorial room . |
22 | Sid Field asked whether dead ones were accepted and John Stanley sent in a Bob Dylan song , saying he was the only ‘ modern whose lyrics I coul get my hands on without going back to the Bard , and I thought that was n't what you wanted ’ . |
23 | The well was completed and tested from the Sedco 700 and is now tied back to the Thistle platform . |
24 | The picturesque Neumarkt is worth a visit before heading back to the Limmatquai . |
25 | THE enthusiastic housekeeper will no doubt be pleased to hear that the carpet retailers are going back to the twist . |
26 | The pipe bringing the water from the boiler ( the flow ) is connected near the top of the cylinder ; the pipe taking water back to the boiler to be heated ( the return ) is connected near the bottom . |
27 | The water in the coil , now cooler , is passed back to the boiler . |
28 | She jerked back to the realisation that Niall was speaking . |
29 | Walter turned back to the ledger , writing slowly and carefully in his beautiful copperplate script . |
30 | It was Charlton 's 11th away success — a League best — and their achievements are all the more commendable coming in the wake of last year 's relegation , the departure of manager Lennie Lawrence , the on-off move back to the Valley and the fact that they have not been able to compete in the transfer market . |