Example sentences of "[pron] back to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he appeared to shake himself back to normality . |
| 2 | Hauling himself back to bed he lay awake for some time , before falling asleep . |
| 3 | Ages seemed to pass although it was only moments , until a pollen-laden grass flower tickled his nose and he sneezed himself back to life again . |
| 4 | WHILE Nick Faldo was stirring himself back to life again in the Freeport-McMoran Classic with a second round of 69 , Sandy Lyle was left contemplating what he felt was likely to be another missed cut in his final preparation for next week 's Masters . |
| 5 | Within days Charlie had lost all the profit he had made in the past year and suddenly found himself back to square one . |
| 6 | True , it seemed a curious way of implanting poison but — He pulled himself back to sanity . |
| 7 | He quickly brought himself back to earth before she gave him another dizzy spell . |
| 8 | His foot slipped and he grasped at a piece of jutting tile and dragged himself back to safety . |
| 9 | But he was very kind , and brought me all the M & B tablets he could find , with instructions to get you back to bed , and to keep you from other children , and give you M & B every four hours until you were sick , and then try them again very slowly . |
| 10 | ‘ Right , I 'll start doing something about supper now , but I 'll carry you back to bed first . ’ |
| 11 | Now , let Dad put you back to bed . ’ |
| 12 | Look , I 'll take you back to bed again and you try to get some sleep . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm going to put you back to bed if you do n't stop it . |
| 14 | Owen : Well Kevin , we are trying , and we 'll be working with your parents on this , to get you back to school and up onto that list up there … see … that 's a list of those who 've returned to school . |
| 15 | Hope to get you back to school on Monday , it seems awful if you 've had a week off and then your not well . |
| 16 | Shake out your limbs , stamp your feet ( to bring you back to terra-firma ) , have a good stretch . |
| 17 | If you are totally fed up , one extra bar of chocolate or cake or any one single luxury item is not going to set you back to square one . |
| 18 | It can be much worse if you are selling as well as buying , for you are then involved in a dreaded thing called ‘ the chain' , which only moves at the pace of the slowest , if it does not disintegrate along the way and put you back to square one . |
| 19 | If it already runs a back to nursing course then it will also have established a policy geared towards attracting you back to work . |
| 20 | It is very interesting to look at one of the more recent leaflets brought out by the government , called Helping you back to work — Information for claimants . ‘ |
| 21 | A visit to our unique Museum at EDEN CAMP will transport you back to wartime Britain . |
| 22 | That was Elgar 's Pomp and Circumstance March number one that was and that brings you back to afternoon special on your favourite local radio station . |
| 23 | ‘ Even losing a goal is occasionally good for you because it brings you back to earth and helps you retain a sense of vulnerability . ’ |
| 24 | This roller coaster catapults you over 75ft into the air , then plummets you back to earth at 60mph . |
| 25 | It just pulls you back to family ties and roots . |
| 26 | And in September ninety two , if I took you back to sort of September ninety one figures were quite different , well in September ninety two , eighty nine percent of our business was next day . |
| 27 | ‘ a museum to the depression , failing to hype itself back to prosperity in the fashion of Glasgow and Newcastle … stuck in the past , in a timewarp of Beatlemania and class solidarity . ’ |
| 28 | Longing now to jump back on board , Mungo watched as the mighty engine woke from its doze and heaved itself back to wakefulness with huge , slow piston strokes . |
| 29 | ‘ You keep bringing everything back to money . ’ |
| 30 | But after you reach a certain stage in life — I 'd put it somewhere between forty-five and fifty-five — you suddenly feel you are as secure as you can be and you really ought to give something back to society . |