Example sentences of "[to-vb] back [prep] the old [noun] " 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 | Burton said that he had promised to go back to the Old Vic for £45 a week to do Hamlet , and he was sticking to it . |
| 4 | But Tory schools minister Michael Fallon , MP for Darlington hit back : ‘ No one wants to go back to the old days of councillors running hospitals , of Nupe deciding whether or not your operations should be carried out . ’ |
| 5 | But to go back to the old ways ‘ would be a colossal mistake , ’ he declared . |
| 6 | Nevertheless you also feel pressure on you to go back to the old ways . |
| 7 | After the luxury of labour-saving devices it is just too tedious to go back to the old ways . |
| 8 | We need to go back to the old ways : I mean , think of it , it was in the Andes that corn was improved , that the potato was developed . |
| 9 | ‘ I would love to go back to the old house … |
| 10 | It always took some time after her departure to get back into the old routine again … into the old pleasant routine . |
| 11 | Would I be able to change back to the old registration plates ? |
| 12 | It was an insult : they did n't need white nannies — did more than two black people in a room constitute a riot ? -were they to step back to the old plantation days ? — had Kinnock and Hattersley been drunk when they drafted the proposal ? |