Example sentences of "[pron] back [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These pictures , rarely cordial , have become more and more baleful : it is as if he is holding himself back from physical assault on a reader supposed to be a trendy and a lefty , which is , indeed , what many of his readers have always been . |
| 2 | Are you back to normal now ? |
| 3 | and rushes you back to early childhood . |
| 4 | ‘ It will bring you back to furious life . ’ |
| 5 | So , if we actually have everything highlighted again and we 'll actually not follow the list as in the book we 'll , if you type in alt C all your text moves to the centre go alt R everything moves to the right and alt L again it takes you back to left justified . |
| 6 | It will guide you back with amazing accuracy . |
| 7 | Okay , and , and we will be asking you back at regular intervals . |
| 8 | And if we 're offering you your passage home , you and the children , and help in finding your feet once you get there , and a good convent school for the girls , so that they can go straight on with the nuns and wo n't really notice any difference , well , all that 's to be regarded as a loan , which we 're very glad to offer you for an extended period , in the hopes of getting you back among caring people . " |
| 9 | ‘ You 've caused me and my friends a lot of trouble and we are going to pay you back in full . |
| 10 | Your body should be getting itself back to normal soon . ’ |
| 11 | So erm I 'm sending one back to national office saying , these hotels are sending confirmation at the full price for local government conference . |
| 12 | That brings one back to previous awards , for in the absence of any other yardstick the principle of fairness requires that awards in comparable cases should be comparable . |
| 13 | So I told them what I would do , but once again I 've never been in the situation but this is what I 'll do , said as if they were me own parents make them as comfortable as I could while I 'll cleaned up and give them a bed bath or if they could shower , shower them and erm and get everything back to normal as quick as possible , fine , that were all fine she , and then as , as I got up from it they all said thanks a lot Joy it has been great you really have been great you 've made it easy , we 've got an easy day in front thanks to you , you know you 're bubbly and all this and then when she phoned me on the Sunday she said hello Joy it 's Sue here and I , I said will you let me know one way or the another cos I said I hate being left up in the air |
| 14 | The laity had a pale reflection of this programme in the parish mission , designed to convert the laity or at least bring them back to regular church practices . |
| 15 | To rearticulate them back to working-class interests required considerable ideological work . |
| 16 | In 1981 he skippered Harrogate to their first Yorkshire Cup victory for 17 years and coached them back to cup-winning form when they beat Otley in the final at Morley last April . |
| 17 | In 1981 he skippered Harrogate to their first Yorkshire Cup victory for 17 years and coached them back to cup-winning form when they beat Otley in the final at Morley last April . |
| 18 | It must be one of the major frustrations of being a veterinary surgeon that you can never convince your patients that you are on their side and are working tirelessly to save them and help them back to full health . |
| 19 | Her most beguiling quality was her air of dreamy detachment ; she liked being kissed , and kissed them back with mobile lips and a tantalisingly timid tongue , but at the end of a hectic hour of necking , when her partner would be scarlet-faced , sore-lipped and aching with frustrated desire , she was maddeningly serene . |
| 20 | The city , he continues , was a ‘ sign of capital ’ ; it ‘ took up and eviscerated the varieties of social practice and gave them back with ventriloqual precision ’ . |
| 21 | Unable to meet the huge cost of the highly specialised asbestos de-contamination work then demanded of the entire Pullman set , SLOA agreed to sell the Pullmans to industrialist Sir William McAlpine ( better known to railway enthusiasts as the owner of Flying Scotsman ) and to hire them back for steam-charter use once the asbestos stripping work was complete . |
| 22 | The victory of Gothic architecture showed that Nonconformity had kept pace with the spirit of the times ; to have done otherwise would have turned them back into hole-and-corner chapels appealing , like the Quakers with their simple meeting-houses , to ‘ men and women of a certain temper ’ . |
| 23 | Moreover , if there are too many beds people will inevitably stay too long , which increases the difficulties of resettling them back into normal life . |
| 24 | The decision rests on a balance between helping individuals to come to terms with what has happened in their lives at difficult times , risking the possibility of taking them back through stressful and disturbing memories , and leaving the past alone , risking the possibility that counsellees will never come to terms with what is disturbing them . |
| 25 | I should not expect them back before late in the afternoon . |
| 26 | I take walkabout phone outside into road and guide them back round roundabout to house . |
| 27 | Those respondents who insisted on strict anonymity — to the extent of removing coding on the questionnaires and sending them back in plain brown envelopes — not surprisingly pointed to the anonymity factor as an attractive feature of headhunting when compared with in-house recruiting . |
| 28 | Let's put them back in safe place |
| 29 | After buying me lunch in a new concrete hotel called , romantically , The Interflora , she drove me back at high Skoda speed through the centre of town — choke full out , engine howling in second gear as we skidded across wet cobblestones , clipping kerbs and narrowly avoiding the numerous potholes and dug-up sections where slow attempts were being made to repair the water mains , shattered by the minus-twenty-five February temperatures . |
| 30 | Later that evening , when I was almost asleep , the sound of a crowd brought me back to full consciousness . |