Example sentences of "[vb past] back [to-vb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amy bounced back to win the junior championship with a record number of points ( 239.05 ) . |
| 2 | One sign of the times was that Lord Young of Dartington , a founder member of the SDP in 1981 , moved back to rejoin the Labour Party . |
| 3 | Keeps bouncing back : dumped by the Chicago Cubs in 1985 after injury , but was reprieved by Pittsburgh ; lasted a mere 18 pitches against the Cubs in game two of the NL play-offs but came back to win the decisive game five . |
| 4 | ‘ We came back to get the vital point . |
| 5 | She left the cubicle to find a blood test kit , and came back to find the new houseman , Joe Reynolds , ordering head X-rays and a neurologist 's opinion . |
| 6 | Their visitor turned on her heel and went to the door where she turned back to hold the broken doll up to Artemis . |
| 7 | Dragging her thoughts into line , she turned back to scan the empty office , mentally checking her appearance . |
| 8 | But having snapped the thread which had led Hegel on from there to his speculative Absolute , they turned back to find the real meaning and reference of these objectifications in the subject which had produced them as forms of its own self-expression . |
| 9 | I stepped back to avoid the overpowering closeness of his face and a little man on the inner circle of the crowd startled me with a friendly smile , but I could not find him again when I looked for him . |
| 10 | The evening gala dinner was held at Yew Lodge , and after Club Secretary Stewart Wilson read out some dubious ‘ alternative ’ golf rules , all settled back to enjoy the good food , and good company , washed down with many a long winded golfing yarn . |
| 11 | Anyway , in the fire the master risked his life helping all the servants out of the house , then bravely went back to save the mad woman . |
| 12 | She stood back to watch the great man from behind and , in watching , became progressively more fidgety as she itched to comment on his alignment . |
| 13 | Later that over Pringle let a ball or two pass only to freeze in horror as his last snapped back to hit the off stump . |