Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] back into the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cornelius fanned at his trouser bottoms and slowly drew himself back into the vertical plane . |
| 2 | Baronness Warnock ( Ind ) , whose 1986 report forms the basis of the bill , said it would be a paradox if ‘ we democratic and increasingly educated people should … put ourselves back into the 17th century , when the question of whether or not Galileo and indeed Descartes might pursue and publish their scientific findings was regulated not by scientific considerations , but by religious considerations . ’ |
| 3 | He drank too much and was usually overweight but , to his credit , had dragged himself back into the top thirty on the circuit in the last couple of years . |
| 4 | The remark was enough to tell her that he had kissed her brow , and that he was firmly hauling himself back into the anti-female attitude which would give him security from involvement with a woman . |
| 5 | It 's part of USL 's strategy to manoeuvre itself back into the commercial sector — the company says the operation will be concerned with systems integration and promoting Unix awareness in the government and corporate markets . |
| 6 | Pascal 's target here is Descartes and , in trying to think oneself back into the overwhelming urgency of their debate , it has to be remembered that their lives were overshadowed by the struggles of the Counter-Reformation . |
| 7 | Even if the snake is turned over again and again , it always flips itself back into the inverted posture , an over-eager dying act that completely gives the game away . |
| 8 | Normally , financial troubles and scandals around money visit players late in their lives , when their playing days are over and they are rehabilitating themselves back into the real world . |
| 9 | One could almost imagine oneself back into the Middle Ages but for the fact that technology has marched on through the centuries to replace rough-hewn bows of Yew with fibreglass ones , equipped with very advanced sights . |