Example sentences of "to get back to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 2 | The inexperienced pilots often try to soar in unusable lift , and they concentrate so hard that they do n't recognise that they are drifting away and are not going to get back to the field . |
| 3 | However , during training , decisions such as when to leave the lift and start to get back to the field are too often taken by the instructor . |
| 4 | Lacan wished to get back to the original subversive spirit of Freud 's writings , which had been simplified or distorted by their vulgar popular currency , and by the professionalism of psychoanalysis . |
| 5 | But the immediate priority , he emphasised , was to get back to the basics which Sir Reo Stakis tried to inculcate in his managers : using staff effectively to provide a service on the spot and giving the customer what he or she needs and expects . |
| 6 | When a dolphin becomes trapped in a net , it drowns because it is unable to get back to the surface to refill its lungs when the supply of air runs out . |
| 7 | I love rap but in the future I want to get back to the funk . |
| 8 | I am anxious to get back to the Forest of my own creation , my own memory , my own past and future hope . |
| 9 | My first duty will be to Nottingham and our aim will be to get back to the top . |
| 10 | My next problem was how to get back to the hotel before my stomach gave a repeat performance . |
| 11 | This is a short-cut walkers are not supposed to take , to prevent erosion , but it would have taken a man with a Rotweiler and a machine-gun to stop me , so desperate was I to get back to the car and home . |
| 12 | Therefore the Australian move to make whaling more humane was in fact a move to get back to the way it had been after a serious deterioration . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're all mad , ’ said a red-nosed Bardolphian Gefreiter , ‘ I wish I could be a prisoner : you would n't catch me trying to get back to the war ’ |
| 14 | To go to bed , we take off our shoes , then our socks to get back to the original state of bare feet . |
| 15 | Fall down , go right and collect the painting , use the painted ledges and stars from the cauldron to get back to the start , go left and climb up the stairs from the cauldron , go right and bounce up to the platform to your right , go to the right of the cloud and paint some ledges to get into the castle , stand on the wall to your right and paint some ledges to go right to the edge of the castle , go up and collect the piece of painting , go down , then up the left side of the window using the painted ledges . |
| 16 | The occasional dinner party was a social duty ; they could hardly wait to get back to the seclusion of their own small house . |
| 17 | The fastest way to talk to Grosvenor Square was to get back to the third floor . |
| 18 | It will give us the lift we need to get back to the Premier League . ’ |
| 19 | Stich said later : ‘ I want to get back to the world top 10 — that 's my goal . ’ |
| 20 | Eve did n't want it to get back to the convent that she was trick acting in Healy 's Hotel and ogling teddy boys out of the window . |
| 21 | Once , landing from the submarine HMS Tigris , his fellow canoeist — a Free French soldier — lost his boat in rough water , but they managed to get back to the submarine . |
| 22 | They had an hour to get back to the rendezvous with their submarine when the storm strengthened , tossing them high on one wave before they slithered off its back to meet the next great sea , all the time in danger of broaching-to across the waves that could then roll them over . |
| 23 | I was excitedly interested in her attempt to get back to the original Gautama , instead of the stereotyped figure of the Scriptures and Buddhist tradition , and still more thrilled by her insistence that the Buddha had a gospel , good news to the people of his contemporary India and to later generations . |
| 24 | We 're lost and we 've got to get back to the station . ’ |
| 25 | When referrals have come from other professionals it is important to get back to the parents ' view rather than working from the information in the referral letter . |
| 26 | MARK Ramprakash believes he needs help to get back to the top after being overlooked for England 's two winter tours . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ We 've got to get back to the days when Elland Road was an intimidating place for teams to visit . |
| 28 | Arrogant delusions dispelled by the All Blacks and Wallabies , South Africa have a hard row to hoe to get back to the top . |
| 29 | This one hobbled about gamely , seemingly eager to get back to the open plains . |
| 30 | ‘ The DI 's compliments , sir , but he had to get back to the station . |