Example sentences of "[pn reflx] back [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Baronness Warnock ( Ind ) , whose 1986 report forms the basis of the bill , said it would be a paradox if ‘ we democratic and increasingly educated people should … put ourselves back into the 17th century , when the question of whether or not Galileo and indeed Descartes might pursue and publish their scientific findings was regulated not by scientific considerations , but by religious considerations . ’
2 We left Paris by the Porte D'Orleans and found ourselves back amongst the tilled meadows and windmills which ring the city .
3 He was soon embarrassed , therefore , to find himself back at the plague village , helping Lucie and Izzie to settle into one of the cottages , wondering why he had not left with the rest .
4 No , he was n't , because his head came up and he threw himself back on the ground behind him and he was rolling around in a heap of laughter .
5 The Sheffield Wednesday striker was livid at finding himself back on the bench just 28 minutes after being sent on as a second-half substitute at Norwich on Saturday .
6 His injury is now completely cured and , after an early season rocket from Loftus Road manager Gerry Francis , he has put himself back on the trail to match last term 's 24-goal haul .
7 If someone touched him from behind on a crowded Saturday night he would push himself back onto the anonymous hand , just like a cat would , without turning round to see who it was .
8 Unable to pass through the flame , he managed to cast himself back onto the side of the platform he had entered from .
9 Then , as he was getting ready to haul himself back down the hill and into his bed where he could forget his troubles and try in vain to sleep them away , he saw it .
10 Scrabbling to his feet again , he hurled himself back through the throat of the storm , seized the reception door and savagely slammed it shut .
11 He had squeezed himself back into the side-car with his long legs stretched flat along the floor of the rectangular alloy box .
12 BILLIONAIRE Ross Perot last night threw himself back into the race to become US President .
13 He drank too much and was usually overweight but , to his credit , had dragged himself back into the top thirty on the circuit in the last couple of years .
14 To say I forcibly removed him in a headlock because he was ‘ In five short minutes , playing himself back into the job of Athletico manager ’ , is not only true but also likely to get this fanzine banned within a fifteen-mile radius of ‘ The Tip ’ .
15 Tom flung himself back into the chair beside her , still without speaking , and Belinda stood there while Faye gave her a watchful glance .
16 The remark was enough to tell her that he had kissed her brow , and that he was firmly hauling himself back into the anti-female attitude which would give him security from involvement with a woman .
17 Martin pressed himself back into the burial plot , his fear of it temporarily forgotten in the face of this new terror .
18 Cornelius fanned at his trouser bottoms and slowly drew himself back into the vertical plane .
19 It took a while to establish himself back in the team as his form was poor and he was not originally selected for the visit of the Australians in 1972–3 .
20 He was a modest sprinter himself back in the fifties and early sixties , once reaching the final of the Middlesex Championships .
21 None of the usual tricks for shutting off memory would work now ; whatever he did , whichever way he diverted his attention it would only come wandering back , like a man in a maze who continually finds himself back in the same spot .
22 That means Thorstvedt , who came on as sub against Coventry and saved a penalty as Spurs crashed 2-0 , will suddenly find himself back in the number one spot .
23 When they were clear of the city 's traffic , Colt eased himself back in the seat and lit a small cigar .
24 As a result of all this , Baldwin found himself back in the Caxton Hall by 30 October .
25 Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival .
26 A moment later he found himself back in the top of the tree .
27 At the riverside we can see Mr Gould on his stomach out on the ice , pushing himself back from the hole in the river ; people are shouting and running around ; we head down the river towards the narrows and the gorge and my father slips and almost drops me and his breath smells of whisky and food .
28 Manolo squirmed , pushing himself back against the seat .
29 Even if the snake is turned over again and again , it always flips itself back into the inverted posture , an over-eager dying act that completely gives the game away .
30 It 's part of USL 's strategy to manoeuvre itself back into the commercial sector — the company says the operation will be concerned with systems integration and promoting Unix awareness in the government and corporate markets .
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