Example sentences of "[verb] back [prep] the old [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The verbal instructions are important — they will act as reminders in the days following the lesson and help the pupil to inhibit his natural tendency to slip back into the old habits .
2 ‘ 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 .
3 Without the moral strength of the New Thinking it will fall back into the old corruption .
4 Then , looking back into the old recipes for English fruit fools , we find that trifles , syllabubs , creams and fools have all at some point merged one with the other .
5 Looking back through the old progs I do n't see much sign of Forrester at all !
6 This suffering may be associated with rapidly changing configurations of personality , being a new person one day , and sinking back into the old self on the next , only to find that some minor episode puts the new organisation of self again in a position of regnancy .
7 Imhotep had a chapel at the temple of Isis at Philae and was also linked with the Ptolemaic temple of Horus at Edfu , which had replaced a much earlier temple at the site , possibly dating back to the Old Kingdom .
8 Going back to the old trams .
9 In the morning , though our route lay the other way , I insisted on going back to the old station for one more look .
10 I understand that it is possible , even at this late stage , that the review itself could be overturned by the refusal of France to agree the new allocation of seats and we 've already had an exchange on that , Mr Deputy Speaker , which indicates that whatever we decide today might actually be overthrown and overturned completely by the inability of the French to ratify their part of the arrangement , er the minister referred to it as a massive inconvenience , I suggest that if we have to resort to going back to the old boundaries to fight these elections and indeed the problems that that will cause for the selection of candidates as well , that that will be one of the greatest understatements that even this house has heard .
11 … Trouble with going back to the old days , the [ agency ] was more or less a family concern .
12 But see we 're going back to the old seasons now .
13 Even if Fiver 's wrong and nothing terrible hits happened back at the old warren , I 'd still say we 're better off here .
14 Elsewhere , like on ‘ Criminals ’ or ‘ Shaky Ground ’ , you get all the weird , unresolved chording that Michael Stipe favours , and a suitably battered vocal that reaches back to the old mountain music and forward to Dinosaur Jr , Lemonheads and Nick Cave .
15 They always look back to the old smokestack industries .
16 I look back at the old woman , marvelling at Enid and Philip for finding her interesting enough to talk about .
17 However , the Mole was still held by Germans , and moving back to the Old Entrance Bob Ryder saw that somebody — a party from an ML ?
18 Having met him at the station on 3 December , a Tuesday , we walked back to the Old parsonage , in St Giles 's ( now a hotel ) , where Michael Cullis had pleasant lodgings .
19 Peggy stepped back from the old woman .
20 When a suitable site for a new hive is found the bees have to learn its location and get rid of their earlier learned behaviour of flying back to the old hive .
21 ‘ It goes back to the old OSS days and the crusade we were running against Hitler along with your SOE and Dot Tuckey and people like that .
22 It 's it 's er , the travellers tradition and it goes back to the old tradition of the Scottish people as well
23 CHAIRMAN Sir Peter Parker was doing his best , but the 1980s opened with much the same worries of insecurity over government policy , lack of investment , and working practices which harked back to the old company rules .
24 Burton said that he had promised to go back to the Old Vic for £45 a week to do Hamlet , and he was sticking to it .
25 But Tory schools minister Michael Fallon , MP for Darlington hit back : ‘ No one wants to go back to the old days of councillors running hospitals , of Nupe deciding whether or not your operations should be carried out . ’
26 But to go back to the old ways ‘ would be a colossal mistake , ’ he declared .
27 Nevertheless you also feel pressure on you to go back to the old ways .
28 After the luxury of labour-saving devices it is just too tedious to go back to the old ways .
29 We need to go back to the old ways : I mean , think of it , it was in the Andes that corn was improved , that the potato was developed .
30 ‘ I would love to go back to the old house
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