Example sentences of "[verb] back into the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faye understood now too , and she sank back into the reclining lounge chair with a gesture of despair . |
| 2 | From the hall outside the court , Doyle peered back into the drab room , wondering whether the girl would re-appear , and give him a chance to make his opening . |
| 3 | The yanks were itching to see the pop conquerors of late '89 , but a series of postponed tours and a lack of vinyl has seriously affected the Roses ' US invasion potential — not that they care , preferring to slip back into the easy pace of their pre-fuss lifestyle . |
| 4 | The yanks were itching to see the pop conquerors of late '89 , but a series of postponed tours and a lack of vinyl has seriously affected the Roses ' US invasion potential — not that they care , preferring to slip back into the easy pace of their pre-fuss lifestyle . |
| 5 | In the 5 years with Maxwell junior at the helm , the club has dropped back into the second division and shows debts of up to £4.5 million . |
| 6 | The car leaps forward , tears between two lorries and lurches back into the middle lane . |
| 7 | Colour began to come back into the young woman 's cheeks . |
| 8 | Without the moral strength of the New Thinking it will fall back into the old corruption . |
| 9 | We wandered back into the freezing bailey . |
| 10 | She wandered back into the small sitting-room with her mug of tea , put it down on the polished surface of a table but removed it hastily in case it left a tell-tale ring which S. Kettering might complain about in the future . |
| 11 | The dark green sun umbrella above them threw shadows across Guy 's face , but she realised that the teasing gleam had crept back into the narrowed gaze . |
| 12 | There is a phase preceding death — perhaps moments before , perhaps even as much as a year before — when the individual life seems to dissolve and to begin to be absorbed back into the collective life . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For a period of the late 16th century it appears to have come into the possession of the Earls of Leicester but eventually came back into the full possession of Trinity College , which remained lord of the manor until quite recent times . |
| 15 | Ace dropped back into the empty chamber . |
| 16 | They may have been killed by the giants ; they may have starved to death ; all the men of the Armada remembered were the pitiful wails of the pair echoing over the still waters as the ships sailed back into the open sea , and south . |
| 17 | I replace the spare rounds in the small cardboard box , look around for where to put them , then slip them into my jacket pocket , and ease back into the comfortable armchair . |
| 18 | ‘ A whole city partying — and transported back into the eighteenth century ! ’ |
| 19 | Discuss in or out of role — with the results of the discussion later fed back into the whole group . |
| 20 | Information gathered by these excursions into adjoining phases is thus fed back into the previous process in order to reinforce the adopted approach , modify it or cause its abandonment . |
| 21 | It meant he had finally been accepted back into the Royal fold after being stripped of his OBE when he was jailed for tax evasion . |
| 22 | Independent Computer Solutions Ltd , London , has developed an interface that allows users to integrate JYACC 's Jam rapid application development toolset with Cadre Technologies Inc 's Teamwork CASE analysis and design system : Teamwork data flow and entity relationship diagrams can be converted into Jam applications using the interface , subsequent changes and adjustments can be automatically reflected back into the original Teamwork model . |
| 23 | Spain was changing , however , in spite of Franco 's reluctance to recognize the fact , for it was slowly being drawn back into the international mainstream . |
| 24 | Shedlock placed it , without explanation , after the vocal finale — thereby severing a beautifully direct link back into the acting text . |
| 25 | Having got rid of its international stores chain with the spin-off of InterTan Inc , Tandy Corp is heading back into the international market again and says it expects to open a second SuperCenter store in Stockholm , Sweden in the third quarter ; the company already operates a third SuperCenter in Copenhagen . |
| 26 | He let go and ducked back into the driving rain . |
| 27 | Going back into the private sector I was very keen to become a pluralist . |
| 28 | He was going back into the National Health Service and had taken a consultancy in a drug dependency unit based at the Lurie Foundation Hospital for Dipsomaniacs on Hampstead Road . |
| 29 | They turned back into the swirling smoke , and up the ladder to the superstructure , regaining the door to the wireless hut . |
| 30 | Perhaps he could run back into the Romano-British Collection , gibbering . |