Example sentences of "back onto the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I promptly eased it back onto the lap and desperately tried to imitate someone who has been asleep for hours , with his arm wrapped fiercely round his dog . |
| 2 | In the age of imperialism , an older model of history based on the rise and fall of empires could be projected back onto the fossil record to justify the world-wide expansion of modern Europeans . |
| 3 | He claims he only pushed her away but she fell back onto the knife . |
| 4 | In America corporate bosses and Wall Street are in rare agreement about the need to get retail investors back onto the shareholding registers . |
| 5 | Reaching for his case , Eddie produced an iron to replace and smarten up dog eared lables , using it to smooth them back onto the sample . |
| 6 | Stevie hit a low , unambitious shot which took a look at the bunker on the left but swung back onto the fairway . |
| 7 | Rattled , he fell back onto the truckle-bed in a welter of trousers . |
| 8 | Now make a circle with your head , let it drop onto your chest , roll the head over the left shoulder , let it drop behind you and roll over the right shoulder and back onto the chest . |
| 9 | Bounce light is aimed upwards at the walls and ceiling for reflection back onto the subject below . |
| 10 | The simplest method is to switch off the lights and to lighten the shadow areas by reflecting some of the daylight back onto the subject . |
| 11 | When the lid opens these contacts are lost and the loop folds back onto the core of the protein . |
| 12 | These machines are rather expensive , but they make it possible to lift off the original sync sound from the video tape , combine it with additional sound ( held either on separate tracks or pre-mixed on the recorder via ‘ sound on sound ’ mixing ) , and then to lay it back onto the video tape still in perfect synchronisation . |
| 13 | Erm you go back onto the performance guidelines that have been basically imposed citizens charter really at the end of the day . |
| 14 | He soon had it back with Granny 's belongings intact , and I could hardly believe my ears and eyes when I heard her thank him and allow him to lift her back onto the driver 's seat , in gratitude for which she kissed him on the cheek . |
| 15 | The cowboy pushed his stetson back onto the crown of his head . |
| 16 | Whatever , you ca n't apply the urban type of capital back onto the land , so it 's okay to say this would work if capital was completely and perfectly mobile , but it is n't so , you do n't get that and you do n't get balanced growth of that . |
| 17 | It rolled into a hollow and it took me half an hour to get it one yard back onto the road . |
| 18 | I bent my knees a little to put on the shoulder-strap and left him watching me move back onto the road . |
| 19 | We were , too — at least , the two nearside wheels were , but being the middle of the night there was a fortunate scarcity of pedestrians , and we quickly got back onto the road without disaster . |
| 20 | From the Glenmore car park , go back onto the road and turn right . |
| 21 | I was doing a three-point-turn manoeuvre to get us back onto the road when he woke up , lifted his hat and mumbled : ‘ Where are we ? ’ |
| 22 | If I can get it back onto the road in one piece , I think it will survive . ’ |
| 23 | This time Donna stepped on the accelerator and the Volvo shot forward , dirt and stones spraying up behind it as she guided it back onto the road . |
| 24 | He said he pushed her and she fell back onto the blade . |
| 25 | It passes through a sponge where mechanical and biological filtration takes place , and is then passed back onto the water . |
| 26 | He also put some of the onus for countering terrorism back onto the public . |
| 27 | The ship settled down to a monotonous routine until the cries of the look-outs brought Selkirk and the captain back onto the deck . |
| 28 | He climbed the short steep ladder that led back onto the deck . |
| 29 | Typically Market Maker the Harvard Securities newsletter , at a time when unemployment figures had reached the 3 1\2 million level , presented this rosy view of the City : " The prospect of stronger cashflow has meant the reintroduction of brandy and cigars after lunch ; Beluga caviar is creeping back onto the menu ; pension fund managers … are starting to hail taxis again , and the other afternoon in Throgmorton Street I actually heard a Blue Button whistling " |
| 30 | The guards were changed and the prisoners settled back onto the luggage racks or the floor or the upright wooden seats to sleep . |