Example sentences of "to go back to the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 After that I waited at the harbour until it was safe to go back to the beach without seeing the person I was dodging . ’
3 What about , to go back to the idea of scheduling and things
4 Nevertheless , practically all the rules have exceptions and readers may feel that the rules are so complex that it would be easier to go back to the idea of learning the stress for each word individually .
5 The Norwegians choose a long ridge walk to go back to the camp and by the time they have arrived , Tony and I have decided to take the kayaks out on to the Ocean .
6 I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time .
7 But I was afraid to go back to the village .
8 There is no transport on the island , and to walk in perfect quiet along the little narrow roads , discovering wayside temples and little shrines ; meet a crowd of smiling , noisy children coming out of school ; or to go back to the quayside where fish , vegetables , cheap jewellery , sunglasses , cooked food , hot snacks were all being sold in the open air ; all this was a blissful change from the hectic atmosphere of the city .
9 It would often be necessary to go back to the user and ask for guidance on whether to broaden the search .
10 He might have to go back to the road and start again .
11 Perhaps the other point I can make is to go back to the question of why women tutors and people in the university generally have emphasised harassment of students by academic staff more than they 've emphasised harassment by students of one another , and I think it 's not that it was thought that students did n't commonly make each other uncomfortable , but as an issue of principle in terms of whether it 's appropriate for university or college authorities to intervene in what many people regard as students ' private lives .
12 ‘ Would you like to go back to the auberge ? ’ said Melissa gently .
13 After casting on and knitting a few rows , you just need a couple of minutes from time to time to go back to the machine and change the punchcard or pattern number .
14 Finally he lay down in the snow and determined to die , for his stamina had failed him and he had not found the Dwarves ; and he did not want to go back to the life of killing he had led .
15 The jackets had to go back to the sweatshop , making for an unnecessary and annoying delay .
16 I do n't want to go back to the north .
17 Finding the car park empty , he was too embarrassed to go back to the pub and ask for help .
18 The only other alternative was to go back to the cottage , as well he 'd known .
19 He says he 's feeling better but he has to go back to the hospice .
20 There was a telephone by the bed but he decided to go back to the hall , where another instrument stood on a table under the bannisters .
21 I 'm an Army officer and all I want to do is persuade him to go back to the Army . ’
22 Unless we want to go back to the Stone Age , zero pollution is not practical . ’
23 You 're preparing me to go out into the street , but I still have to go back to the system first .
24 BRADFORD missed a chance to go back to the top of the Stones Bitter Championship after being hammered 28–6 at home by Castleford .
25 You 'll have to go back to the nursery .
26 He wants to go back to the base camp before we push on towards Finland .
27 Had to go back to the school — had to sit amongst the probationers , and then after the school , he was posted right from one side of the city to the other .
28 Now at this juncture here you would n't actually say what products you 're gon na do , cos you 're not gon na go back and say well I 'm thinking of er two hundred thousand pounds of convertible term assurance and we 're looking personal pension plan , but you 'll tell the guy you 're gon na go back to the branch , we 've got a variety of different things sir and what I wan na do is to go back to the branch and work on one or two ideas for you and then present them to you at some time in the future .
29 So after you 've finished training , you 're going down to the library , yes , to look up the names of the people luve in Street , and once you 've been on that appointment you 've got to go back to the branch and you 're gon na do your mail shots whatever you 're gon na do , put it in there .
30 After the elections I want to go back to the Institute of Forecasting .
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