Example sentences of "slip back into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the easiest way to escape is just to slip back into the cockpit of a racing car . |
| 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 | It was frightening , how easy it was to slip back into the past . |
| 4 | The yanks were itching to see the pop conquerors of late '89 , but a series of postponed tours and a lack of vinyl has seriously affected the Roses ' US invasion potential — not that they care , preferring to slip back into the easy pace of their pre-fuss lifestyle . |
| 5 | He was unhappy there but , determined not to slip back into the pits where his grandfather had wielded a pick , worked hard and won scholarships both to Jesus College , Oxford , and the University College of Aberystwyth . |
| 6 | They did n't have any money either at this point , so to get them out , I had to slip back into the States without anybody knowing and sell off everything we owned — all the furniture and household stuff . |
| 7 | The yanks were itching to see the pop conquerors of late '89 , but a series of postponed tours and a lack of vinyl has seriously affected the Roses ' US invasion potential — not that they care , preferring to slip back into the easy pace of their pre-fuss lifestyle . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We have simultaneously slipped back into a compromising embrace with the very form of instrumental utilitarianism which got the world into such a mess in the first place : that things are of value because they are of value to us , not because they are of value in themselves . |
| 10 | In January 1982 , Malawi Radio announced that the Chirwas had been arrested with their son on Christmas Eve , and claimed that they had slipped back into the country to incite opposition to Banda 's Government . |
| 11 | Cells must therefore be leaving the marginal row as the wound closes ( most probably by slipping back into the epithelium to the rear of this row ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't care if you starve , ’ she said tightly , slipping back into the rough gibing of their childhood . |
| 13 | Following her normal routine , she had changed out of her show glitter back into a long and relatively modest black evening dress before slipping back into the main section of the club . |
| 14 | Recently restored to its original splendour , the visitor to these former royal apartments slips back into an age when elegance was king . |
| 15 | It was later , in the boredom of those long , lonely evenings , that her resolve collapsed and , despite herself , she slipped back into the old habits of sniping at Marie , horrified at what she was doing to them both , yet unable , in her bitterness and isolation , to stop herself . |
| 16 | I slipped back into the water and swam a couple of strokes to the curtain . |
| 17 | The boy placed the bowl on the ground ever so gently , so as not to disturb the wild animals — then slipped back into the house . |
| 18 | Using a new set of genuine Thomas Leavy documents based on his legal name change — the last thing he supposed the Federal authorities would be on the lookout for — Coleman then slipped back into the States , via Canada , for what he felt in his bones was probably the last time he would see his father and his country . |
| 19 | Mrs Davis slipped back into the light . |
| 20 | Ali slipped back into the shadows . |
| 21 | When he talked about the " transformation " of Algeria , as he did a great deal in 1959 and 1960 , de Gaulle slipped back into the rhetoric of his other association idea ( labour-capital association ) , a rhetoric which was influenced by the social catholicism of his early years . |
| 22 | Lindsey slipped back into an air of professionalism . |
| 23 | When Bill Shankly surprisingly retired in 1974 , after transforming Liverpool into one of the giants of League soccer , it was widely predicted that the club would soon slip back into the rut from which he had hauled them . |
| 24 | The fisherman was so shocked that he let the body slip back into the water and , though he reported it to the police , no action was taken by them . |
| 25 | THE fans who revelled in Darlington 's magnificent rise from near-obscurity are helping the side slip back into the bad old days . |