Example sentences of "[noun pl] get back [prep] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The quicker these kids get back to school .
2 Picking up the pieces was no easy task but Connors was one of the first traders to get back on its feet , temporarily setting up shop in a portacabin .
3 It took me four to five months to get back to the weight I was before I was pregnant .
4 It 'll take 9 months to get back to normal .
5 take me twelve months to get back on me blooming feet .
6 Having filled their buckets with bright red liquid ( thanks for the colouring ) contestants in Blind-man 's buff had to rely on shouts from supporters to get back to their corner with a few drops left in the buckets — no thanks to members of the Summer Fayre committee who kept moving the obstacles — just in case it good too easy you understand !
7 STORY : how Meaulnes gets back to the lost domain .
8 Mind you , mind you I went er through Newark the other day and I had to go round the mountains to get back on that road out to Lincoln .
9 As it was , it took them two weeks to get back to Kabrit , to a great welcome from their astonished comrades , who had given them up for lost .
10 Dave Mitchell typifying Town 's efforts to get back to winning ways .
11 Recently , numbers of researchers have made pleas to managers to get back to basics and be continually alert to counter-productive actions .
12 ‘ It would need an increase of 100 per cent in the ewe premiums for the farmers to get back to their previous levels of income at the beginning of the 1980s . ’
13 The Department of Public Relations got back to Burma in the latter part of October , and in November I flew back to join it .
14 Welcome back : The government is being urged to put more money into pre-school playgroups , to help mothers get back to work . .
15 He had lost his watch back in Victorian London and so had no clear idea of time ; it may have taken minutes or hours to get back to the hole in time .
16 I was mentally calorie counting every time , it took me ages to get back to a sort of normal life .
17 It had taken them ages to get back from the Lock and now the evening was drawing in .
18 In the coming year , about 1 million people will be helped through employment and training programmes to get back to work .
19 We 've got about four minutes to get back to the hotel . ’
20 ‘ We 've only got one hour and forty-five minutes to get back to Planet Centram . ’
21 I reckoned it would take her three or four minutes to get back to her flat , but maybe it was n't a good idea to hang around the neighbourhood .
22 And it was this same movement that was now making it difficult for the distant beetles to get back to the professor .
23 When the two children got back to the tunnel with the men from the farm , they found Bobbie and Jim asleep .
24 Some of our juniors had success towards the end of the year , and our men getting back into the top group of the Davis Cup was a great boost .
25 Whatever happens , even if the same coalition led by the Christian Democrats and Socialists gets back into power , things can never be the same again .
26 But it would complicate the withdrawal , with three thousand men to get back across that ford , instead of one-third of that number .
27 To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what measures his Department has introduced to help mature women get back into the work force .
28 This is a four-week period in which racing should not be undertaken seriously , but during this time training can become harder and as it does so , it must be directed towards the goal , It may be necessary to allow more time between hard sessions and longer recovery times during the session , until your anti-stress systems get back to normal .
29 The imaginative librarian first appeals for silence , to allow other students to get back to work .
30 Er , so i it 's er changes of that kind that have been looked at because if you move production work out of one nation into the other to get a nice rationalised allocation of work , you build this wing , you build that wing and so on , you then have got to do something with the minor components to get back to you original erm work share allocation and percentage times .
  Next page