Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to reality " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was only gone a minute , and when he returned , it was with a couple in their fifties who were holding hands as if they were desperately hanging on to reality . |
| 2 | You 've got to come down to reality and plan out your life , look at where you 're coming from and where you 're going . |
| 3 | My mitt 's just about come back to reality , last night when I was playing my trumpet right , it was numb , my fingers , I 'd got no feeling in it , it was as though it was dead . |
| 4 | Slowly she began to come back to reality , and realise that she had been entirely at his mercy . |
| 5 | It was then , as if something had gone click in my head , that I came back to reality . |
| 6 | The horror receded as she came back to reality , breathing hard , glad of her cream duvet and calm hotel surroundings . |
| 7 | Shaken to have found herself so suddenly envious of Liz 's happy home life , and startled to realise that no amount of money could create these comfortable surroundings , Laura was jerked back to reality by the sound of Ross 's voice . |
| 8 | This now returned and it seemed that her meeting with Tom and Peter had been like a dream from which she was waking up to reality . |
| 9 | Yes , I did ’ Hauled back to reality he wondered if he had . |
| 10 | But Dr Gayford suggests that women who demand to be taken in their birthday suits should face up to reality . |
| 11 | Facing up to reality — the England ‘ B ’ forwards ( l-r : Back , Hynes , Dunn , Ubogu and ( rear ) Clarke ) dealt comfortably enough with their counterparts from New Zealand Universities but stiffer tests lay ahead . |
| 12 | There had to be some way to break out of it and get back to reality . |
| 13 | Now and then , I was brought back to reality by the bleached bones of a camel or a black coil of wire , the skeleton of an abandoned tyre whose rubber had perished . |
| 14 | We were brought back to reality by Marty , who stood dripping on the pier head in a bitter east wind shouting , " Come on , when you lot have finished , what about giving me the headrope ? " |
| 15 | She was brought back to reality by the pain in her ankle which , without her realising , she 'd put her full weight on . |
| 16 | It was with a slight shock of coming back to reality that she remembered her resolution to visit Miss Grimes on her way home that evening , as part of her contribution to Christmas goodwill , a sort of ‘ good turn ’ done to somebody for whom one felt no affection . |
| 17 | Coming back to reality Ma'am and the balance sheet . |
| 18 | The faint silvery-white outline of his robe and his face were clearly discernible to her at all times , and so overpowering was the experience at first that in the early morning , as she poured out a cup of tea , she would pour a second cup and absent-mindedly walk towards the chair and say : ‘ Here 's a cup of tea for you , ’ and then jolt back to reality , shaking her head : ‘ Agh , I must be mad ! |
| 19 | Robbie , leaning against the cushions of a high-backed wooden settle , fought hard to hold on to reality . |
| 20 | ‘ Well they need to wake up to reality a bit . |
| 21 | They both cried out as they reached and went beyond that white-hot explosion , holding tight as they crested the wave and slowly drifted back to reality . |
| 22 | As it seemed to get closer to reality , I felt myself changing . |
| 23 | Carving Bearing up to reality |
| 24 | Digital television comes close to reality |
| 25 | Marie snapped back to reality and to the horror of what she had done . |