Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] back to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or that girl with the Esquimau nose ? ) and not daring to spend the time she used to in study lest she be dangerously good , she now had hours and hours in which to brood and her old pains came back to life . |
| 2 | Ironically , since the National opposition swept back to power , the pace of reforms has become breathtaking . |
| 3 | In the spring of 1962 , with the national emergency now over , the parliamentary opposition came back to life . |
| 4 | Feet were wiped , the steps were brought in , the samovar was stoked and nostrils which had stuck together like prickly gauze snuffled back to life . |
| 5 | Both women went back to work . |