Example sentences of "[pron] back [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , as we turned off the Buxton Road into Ashford-in-the-Water , we found ourselves back on schedule and completely relaxed . |
| 2 | Yet , as we turned off the Buxton Road and into Ashford-in-the-Water , we found ourselves back on schedule and completely relaxed . |
| 3 | Now we have to beat Portugal and Italy at Ibrox before the end of the year to get ourselves back on course to qualify for the World Cup finals . |
| 4 | Everyone who goes on assignment has a Career Manager , someone back at home base chartered to keep the assignee informed , happy , plugged-in — and to make sure he ( or even she ) comes back to a suitable job . |
| 5 | Until I can persuade her to unbind me — or make contact with Mephistco and convince someone back at base to forgive me my trespasses just long enough to do an override — I am confined inside the plane of reflected light . |
| 6 | Then he appeared to shake himself back to normality . |
| 7 | Hauling himself back to bed he lay awake for some time , before falling asleep . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Within days Charlie had lost all the profit he had made in the past year and suddenly found himself back to square one . |
| 11 | True , it seemed a curious way of implanting poison but — He pulled himself back to sanity . |
| 12 | He quickly brought himself back to earth before she gave him another dizzy spell . |
| 13 | His foot slipped and he grasped at a piece of jutting tile and dragged himself back to safety . |
| 14 | A dry sob broke from the man 's lips before he brought himself back under control . |
| 15 | Atkinson went on holiday to America during the summer and began working himself back into shape to show Villa what they had missed last season . |
| 16 | He went on holiday to America during the summer and began working himself back into shape to show Villa what they had missed last season . |
| 17 | Patrese , having dropped to sixth , hauled himself back into contention , passing Berger and Alesi ( again ) and was in second place as the pit stops began . |
| 18 | He made a tremendous effort to bring himself back into reality ; his hands shook and he swallowed twice as he tried to speak ; then he passed his right hand , still clutching the telegram , through his dark hair . |
| 19 | The Admiral jerked himself back into consciousness of his surroundings . |
| 20 | There was a sensuousness about it that filled him with a desire to run shouting across it , to roll in it , to bury his face in it and sniff life out of its roots , to draw up his childhood from the green stems , to lie supine and shade his eyes from the sun and dream himself back into nature . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Right , I 'll start doing something about supper now , but I 'll carry you back to bed first . ’ |
| 23 | Now , let Dad put you back to bed . ’ |
| 24 | Look , I 'll take you back to bed again and you try to get some sleep . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm going to put you back to bed if you do n't stop it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Hope to get you back to school on Monday , it seems awful if you 've had a week off and then your not well . |
| 28 | Shake out your limbs , stamp your feet ( to bring you back to terra-firma ) , have a good stretch . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |