Example sentences of "[noun sg] back into the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Where are we going now ? ’ she asked as he swung the car back into the main street . |
| 2 | She threads the Monster back into the high chair where it stiffens , collapses forward , stiffens again , slides down to the crutch-stop and lies there half under the tray , flailing its arms and legs like a crab on its back … and howling — howling like the hell-sent creature it is . |
| 3 | Perhaps , though , his greatest achievement , was in leading tennis back into the Olympic Games for the first time since 1924 . |
| 4 | The volatile Scot , currently on a month 's loan to Birmingham City after being transfer-listed by Southampton , lines up against Newcastle with an eye on a move back into the Premier League . |
| 5 | We have done exactly what I wanted us to do — brought a great singer back into the difficult world of the performer . |
| 6 | Success has n't solved all their problems — Cindy Wilson has taken time off to be temporarily replaced by David Lynch 's protegee Julee Cruise — but it has put the bounce back into the bouffant bop from which their name is derived ( a B-52 being a hairdo ) . |
| 7 | PC Thomas Hewett turned to follow the landlord back into the public house . |
| 8 | An assertiveness training programme involves a number of stages : first , understanding the underlying principles of the approach ; second , recognizing different styles of communicating ( passive , aggressive , assertive ) , third , identifying specific situations where we would like to be more assertive , whether at work , in public , among friends , or at home ; fourth , to prepare , rehearse , or role play a different , more assertive response ; and fifth , to transfer that behaviour back into the real world . |
| 9 | Once they had left the shop and collected their horses , Athelstan and Cranston rode as fast as they could up Piper Alley back into the main thoroughfare . |
| 10 | Pruning cuts out damaged and diseased branches , thus averting the spread of decay , while at the same time rechannelling the vital sap back into the productive parts of the plant . |
| 11 | The locals , realising an opportunity when they saw one , ploughed increasing amounts of money back into the aspiring town and today the results are there for all to see . |
| 12 | However , the NUJ man managed to squeeze a month 's money out of the management and Jane crossed Blackfriars Bridge back into the real world in a thunderstorm but with a light heart , passing the inevitable drunk Irishman proclaiming to the heavens : ‘ Jasus , Mary and Joseph — a bludy hurricane ! ’ |
| 13 | She pushed the dress back into the running water of the stream above the basin , where the soap did not film the water , and mourned the disappearance of his sweet milk ; his pleasure had frightened her , it was true , at first when he did not speak and did not ask or explain . |
| 14 | His size belied the touch of a new born babe and he gently coaxed the life back into the cold toes on my injured foot as a nurse cleaned up the cut hand . |
| 15 | Melissa hastily pushed the book back into the crumpled wrapping and put it out of sight , then held out her hand . |
| 16 | The reader feels , after reading them , as if he/she had followed Theseus into the labyrinth , faced the Minotaur and helped to slay the beast , then followed the clew back into the outside world . |
| 17 | Now he is out of action again after fighting his way back into the first team . |
| 18 | Mick may find it tough to force his way back into the international arena , but this game offers a superb platform for him to relaunch his England ambitions . |
| 19 | ‘ I was always hopeful that I would be able to fight my way back into the representative scene but that was the early chance I needed ’ , recalled Roebuck . |
| 20 | At this stage he had been in contention behind McCallen and Dunlop and even after his restart he still clawed his way back into the leading group . |
| 21 | The only hope was to try and paddle to the bank , then work our way back into the safe waters of the Cherwell by pulling on the branches of the shrubs and trees that overhung the river . |
| 22 | This game is similar to games you would buy for 2–6 year olds that had Zoo animals cut out of the board with little pins on them , The child would try to fit the animal back into the right shape . |
| 23 | Exultation comes and goes , but here again for the while I suppose it has returned to me in preparation for that step back into the radiant arc of omnipotence which is only given on this earth to the narrator in or of a novel . |