Example sentences of "[vb infin] back [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you push the lever down and leave it there the flaps will reach their maximum angle and the selector will automatically jump back into neutral so that the hydraulic circuit can idle . |
| 2 | Do not invest money which you may need back at short notice . |
| 3 | You are going to reach your weight and inch target , and when you do , unless you have another goal to aim for , you may well let your fitness campaign relax and fall back into old habits . |
| 4 | Then gradually the person 's level of anxiety will fall back to normal levels from point B in Figure 4.8 . |
| 5 | You can always fall back on good old rice and tea if the aesthetic qualities of the food are not enough to overcome your apprehension . |
| 6 | The USA had no system of social security against the ravages of sickness or unemployment — no " dole " as in Britain , on which people could fall back in bad times . |
| 7 | We can begin to see how the system would regulate back to normal when parts are removed . |
| 8 | Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the success of the Government 's policy is also to do with the banning of secondary picketing , which the Labour party would bring back with open arms ? |
| 9 | Your correspondent could refer back to Northern Echo archives and CSE , but meanwhile he should let the Sydney Harbour Bridge remain as part of the history of the now defunct Dorman Long group and of Middlesbrough . |
| 10 | The K mesons live long enough to produce tracks in the CLEO detector , so the team could work back from detected K mesons to hunt for those that seemed likely to have originated from a B meson . |
| 11 | apart from the current guys , we can look back on other great Leeds teams : |
| 12 | He could always look back on bad things . |
| 13 | 1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure . |
| 14 | She looked like Kirsty when I first went off to Bengal — ‘ Menzies stopped , his own eyes watering , while Cameron let his temper sink back to normal after the gratuitous alarm . |
| 15 | ‘ In that case , ’ said Jaq , ‘ let us drop back into true space . ’ |
| 16 | There is the damage to government systems of social responsibility which may slide back into selfish chaos . |
| 17 | It is inevitable that as continental markets become more streamlined business which is now done in Eurocurrencies in London may move back to national financial markets . |
| 18 | There were plans to ‘ sell back to private ownership the recently nationalised aerospace and shipbuilding concerns , and to ‘ sell shares in the National Freight Corporation to the general public ’ . |
| 19 | I might call back to fucking haunt you you bastard ! |
| 20 | Through the clerkly sympathies of the fabliau corpus we can justifiably reach back to other forms of literature and literary theory associated with students and the universities and assess the fabliaux in that light . |
| 21 | If the system is so ‘ sophisticated ’ that outside organisations are handling our magazine and problems like the one in Autumn occur why bother with that system ? why not go back to good old postage stamps ? … the reason is because we commenced distribution by Royal Mail 's ‘ Presstream ’ at the beginning of 1992 which involves the sender sorting all its UK mail into postcode order , the benefit being considerable savings from two discounts , firstly the Presstream pricing is lower than the standard postage rate and secondly an extra discount is earned because we have done the sorting instead of Royal Mail . |
| 22 | Perhaps he 'd go back to nice safe Willesden again . |
| 23 | He said too : ‘ I shall see if we may not go back to Nice in the autumn , or Austria or Switzerland . |
| 24 | Rain said : ‘ Will you go back to Nice now ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I can easily go back to normal , ’ Maggie got out quickly but he reached out and captured her hand , spinning her towards him and catching her in his arms . |
| 26 | Soon the place should go back to normal . |
| 27 | My immediate concern is for my husband 's safety because , given that , our lives could then go back to normal . |
| 28 | He says I do n't think we should go back to Victorian manners but people should be more considerate . |
| 29 | He wo n't go back to divisional work after ten years at corporate level . |
| 30 | The origins of this failure may go back to early parenthood . |