Example sentences of "[verb] back into the [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Now going back into the Hebrew scriptures , you 'll find there that this sort of staying awake counsel , an idea was there long before the days of Jesus and the Apostles and people 's lives were involved in its state , even in those days , let's just let us have a look at one , Isaiah forty two eighteen to twenty now this terms it slightly different , but when you look at it and analyze it , you realize he 's talking about exactly the same thing , it 's regarding the nation of Israel who turned away from Jehovah , they were n't doing what they should be doing , or should 've been doing as he 's pleading with them look there , that look here , here you deaf ones , well we know the nation of Israel were n't all physically deaf , they were like we are , perhaps had a few deaf individuals amongst them , but |
| 5 | The material sprang back into the uneven creases that had been shaped by Maidstone 's nervous , insistent fingers . |
| 6 | But they will face a difficult task in getting back into the National Leagues , especially with the scrap for players in the North-East likely to intensify . |
| 7 | Beautiful cover showing a window opening into the past for this time travel tale about an Oxford student stepping back into the Middle Ages to finish her thesis and ending up in the middle of the plague . |
| 8 | J. S. Raworth , who was a director of both , invented a system of regenerative control , by which a car descending a steep hill , could use its motors as brakes and generate current which passed back into the overhead wires to be used by other cars ascending . |
| 9 | Defeated , Howard doubled back into the tortuous mountains , retraced his arduous journey , and re-crossed the Salmon at White Bird Canyon . |
| 10 | If Papandreou wishes to continue her righteous quest , she should go back into the smoke-filled rooms of the Bâtiment Berlaymont and re-package her proposals rationally . |
| 11 | As such , Hitler had become in a way the projection of national aspirations to greatness which reached back into the imperial ambitions of the Wilhelmine era , and which in added strength under Nazism had found an echo among much of the German population , not least as a compensation for a far greyer reality . |
| 12 | ‘ Miers could not take the German prisoners on board his sub , and if he had left them to paddle ashore they would immediately have gone back into the German forces … |
| 13 | It was later , in the boredom of those long , lonely evenings , that her resolve collapsed and , despite herself , she slipped back into the old habits of sniping at Marie , horrified at what she was doing to them both , yet unable , in her bitterness and isolation , to stop herself . |
| 14 | Plenty of men could n't settle back into the old ruts after the war . |
| 15 | Everyone round the table listens intently to the story — the Chases , the Waylands , the Chyldes , the Kessels , the Bernsteins , Charles Aught , Luci Hayter , Rayner Keat , and Francis Fairlie who is still hesitating about what life to commit himself to — a great audience stretching back into the dim recesses of the room , a densely cultivated field growing faces . |
| 16 | He told them : ‘ You are weak people , you will always be weak people unless you can arm yourselves with the strength and courage required to gaze back into the questioning eyes of children ’ . |