Example sentences of "[vb pp] back to reality " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? " |
| 5 | She was brought back to reality by the pain in her ankle which , without her realising , she 'd put her full weight on . |