Example sentences of "[vb pp] back to health " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may be written off as a malingerer or a neurotic or , perhaps even worse , as someone who must be gently humoured back to health . |
| 2 | He falls into a fever , and is nursed back to health by the devoted Joe . |
| 3 | Any wounded or distressed creatures that are handed to us are carefully nursed back to health whilst our breeding programmes produce an ever-increased number of baby marine creatures , many of which are then released into the wild . |
| 4 | ‘ At my wife 's generous insistence I have not deducted one penny for the week you have spent in bed under our roof , being nursed back to health by the kindness of your mistress 's heart . ’ |
| 5 | Later on he would utter cries for help and expect to be nursed back to health by sympathetic doctors , demanding attention as a substitute for love and taking masochistic pleasure in its denial . |
| 6 | Many releasings are really re-releasings , that is owls from broken homes , like the first pair , or injured owls I 've nursed back to health and paired up . |
| 7 | Moore caused considerable scandal by depicting Jesus as surviving the Crucifixion , and being nursed back to health by Joseph of Arimathea . |
| 8 | Artemis much preferred things that were real , such as the injured squirrel she had rescued and nursed back to health , and her pet hen Jemima whose broken leg she and Rosie had mended , and who every now and then was allowed up to the nursery . |
| 9 | Here , when I came closest to watching my own slow death from septicaemia after a motorbike accident , and Western medicines had ceased to work , I was nursed back to health by their healers . |
| 10 | … many have been nursed back to health from the brink of starvation . |
| 11 | There he was gradually nursed back to health , but another eight years passed before he became champion again . |
| 12 | But staff say it would be hypocritical to welcome her to a place where foxes injured by hounds are nursed back to health . |