Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] back to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly she was catapulted violently back to consciousness by rough hands on her shoulder , shaking her into unwilling life . |
| 2 | They have been around for a very long time , as I said , dating right back to Model Book 35 in fact , which appeared in 1982 . |
| 3 | She tried to tug her foot free , but he held it easily , his strong , capable fingers massaging her frozen toes , making her groan as they came slowly back to life . |
| 4 | Her sweet words were still echoing in his ears as he came slowly back to reality . |
| 5 | On an impulse he reversed the Jaguar and drove quickly back to Martyr 's Cottage . |
| 6 | Scientists , just like former communists , are going joyfully back to church . |
| 7 | Absentees and truants welcomed quietly back to school and efforts made to re-integrate them socially and academically . |
| 8 | A good hour later , following numerous entanglements of rope in a tree , we arrived safely back to earth . |
| 9 | At which point she 'd stand , lay the magazine aside , and get straight back to business . |
| 10 | As things turned out , it was probably just as well that I was brought gently back to earth by Beryl , who from one of the Trust 's head offices masterminds the working holidays with military precision , advised me that the only available option was a 21-plus Acorn Project at Clumber park in Nottinghamshire . |
| 11 | If — and it was a megalithic if , but I supposed we should consider every possible option now we were at it — if , in some weird way the Ghost and her voice really did exist , then as soon as she 'd got over her disappointment , she would have to admit she 'd been defeated fair and square , and would just have to honour the deal and flit off back to heaven or wherever it was she lived now . |
| 12 | By the same token , however , they may now be tacking fitfully back to growth while Germany and , to a lesser extent Japan , linger in relative doldrums . |
| 13 | ‘ You 'll go right back to school on Monday morning and finish Grade 12 . |
| 14 | She looked as if she wanted to go back in but her mum kissed her goodbye and shut the door flat in her face and went off back to bed . |
| 15 | No , well mostly toilet in the middle of the night but I go straight back to bed and go back to sleep again . |
| 16 | These wishes go straight back to childhood , and so religion represents a transference from childhood and a kind of emotional infantilism in which people try and make out that they 're still children , as it were , even though they , even though they really are n't . |
| 17 | Only to wake up back to reality with a small , secret smile on her lips . |
| 18 | Dana felt so sick , he went straight back to bed , but had been there only a few seconds before he leapt out with a scream of agony : an autumnal , sleepy wasp had been brought in by the chambermaid among the bedclothes which had been airing at the window and had stung my friend on the bottom ! |
| 19 | he went straight back to work |
| 20 | Other stories about Dic , Little Dick the Carpenter — how he never got to a rugby match because there were too many pubs on the way , how he was burnt all over in a pit explosion , wrapped in bandages so that only his eyes and nostrils showed through — and bathed slowly back to health by his daughters who poured olive oil over him all the time , how he took his daughter Cecilia ( Cis ) to eisteddfods because he loved to hear her sing but how she pleaded with him ‘ not to stop anywhere and not to leave her in the hall ’ . |
| 21 | With a sigh of irritation she floated reluctantly back to consciousness . |
| 22 | They flew out fast , located the target with the aid of their radar equipment , dropped their coloured indicators to show the heavy boys where to go , and then nipped smartly back to base . |
| 23 | We packed up all our kit again and set off back to Orange , across the frozen landscape of southern France , which was having one of the coldest winters in living memory . |