Example sentences of "was [to-vb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agriculture had been in steady decline since the 1870s , and after a brief post-war boom was to sink back into it again in the 1930s . |
| 2 | Unless I went back to Harwich , I was going to be flat broke in a couple of days and just at that moment the last thing I wanted to do was to go back to Harwich . |
| 3 | The only thing he wanted right now was to go back to Jubilee Wood . |
| 4 | The only other alternative was to go back to the cottage , as well he 'd known . |
| 5 | The seventh was to fall back into someone 's arms . |
| 6 | The readiest means of making money was to fall back on private tutoring . |
| 7 | Einstein 's solution was to fall back on the old Romantic notion of the Imagination , suspending his disbelief in order to conduct what he called a " thought experiment " . |
| 8 | The only way to deal with him was to fall back on the technique that had always served her best . |
| 9 | The aim was to report back with bold proposals for the more efficient and effective trial of long fraud cases . |
| 10 | ‘ Let's go and find the bastards , ’ Sharpe grunted , and once he had said it he marvelled at how easy it was to slip back into the old ways of speaking about the enemy . |
| 11 | It was frightening , how easy it was to slip back into the past . |
| 12 | Few other landowners could afford to wait a generation for the return of their money , if it was to come back at all . |
| 13 | Out of the gallantry of the raid , a Halifax was to come back from ‘ extinction ’ . |
| 14 | And he said I was to come back in six months ’ time . ’ |
| 15 | Difficult though it was to come back after so long a lay-off , she was the runner-up in the Yorkshire Championship both in 1950 and in 1953 . |
| 16 | When the train stopped at the all-too-active battlefield in the frozen wastes of the Siberian-Manchurian border , her only hope was to walk back along the railway track to the previous station : |
| 17 | The plan was to look back at intervals after leaving camp to see how long it took for various features of the Land Rover to disappear , so that I would know how much longer there was to walk when they reappeared in the evening . |
| 18 | In his autobiography , Citrine himself was to look back on this second career , taken up at the age of sixty , as the happiest time of his life , when his creativity and other faculties were exercised to the full . |
| 19 | As is well known , Tolkien 's grand design , or desire , was to give back to his own country the legends that had been taken from it in the Dark Ages after the Conquest , when elves and woodwoses and sigelhearwan too had all been forced into oblivion . |
| 20 | For a detailed criticism of this rule and the problems which it causes , when there is material conflict in the averments made by an appellant and the licensing board , see Tennent Caledonian Breweries Ltd. v. City of Aberdeen District Licensing Board , cit. , where it was held that in the case of a conflict of averments , the court could not go behind what appeared in the board 's pleadings. ( 6 ) In Jack v. Edinburgh Corporation , 1973 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 64 , it was held that where an appeal was considered in circumstances substantially different from those considered by the licensing authority , the proper course was to remit back to the authority for reconsideration . |
| 21 | To turn back now from the monastic life , however it had been approached , was to turn back to a world of uncertainty and to face a future in which only damnation was assured . |
| 22 | ‘ One piece of advice was to think back on the big innings I have played and think about the positive parts of those innings — picking out the pieces I really enjoyed . |
| 23 | Mike Fitzpatrick capsized 2 minutes before the start but managed to right himself in such a position that he was first away on the gun although he was to drop back to 30th . |
| 24 | I thought all this was to get back at Steve for his having had an affair with Maria Luisa . ’ |
| 25 | But the immediate priority , he emphasised , was to get back to the basics which Sir Reo Stakis tried to inculcate in his managers : using staff effectively to provide a service on the spot and giving the customer what he or she needs and expects . |
| 26 | All Maria wanted was to get back to Mrs Lennox and old Jock again . |
| 27 | The fastest way to talk to Grosvenor Square was to get back to the third floor . |
| 28 | Now , all he wanted was to get back to his typewriter and put them on paper before they faded . |
| 29 | ‘ Never , ’ Harrison said , lying , for his whole purpose was to get back to his father 's farm to work out when he could return and what he could offer Mary . |
| 30 | Our mission was to take back from the Boche those few miles of battered ground that we 'd bought with half a million lives in those Battles of the Somme , two years before . |