Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We left Paris by the Porte D'Orleans and found ourselves back amongst the tilled meadows and windmills which ring the city . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But as the most famous boxer in the modern history of the game , Tyson found himself back in an environment he hoped he had turned his back on for ever . |
| 4 | As a result of all this , Baldwin found himself back in the Caxton Hall by 30 October . |
| 5 | A moment later he found himself back in the top of the tree . |
| 6 | Cornelius fanned at his trouser bottoms and slowly drew himself back into the vertical plane . |
| 7 | He had squeezed himself back into the side-car with his long legs stretched flat along the floor of the rectangular alloy box . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Nuadu could see that her fingers were gone now , and that she was trying to pull herself back into the heartwood , which would have been her dwelling and the place from which she drew sustenance and vitality , but the Robemaker made another of his sudden curt gestures and the slaves fell to their work again , sweat streaming from their half-clad bodies and Nuadu saw the heartwood splinter and fall apart . |
| 11 | Afterwards she found herself back at the Collector 's bedside in the same churning confusion of day and night . |
| 12 | It would have been impolite to refuse so Elisa found herself back in the sitting room . |
| 13 | Threading her way as diligently as she could through the mass of humanity , it was with a sigh of relief that she eventually found herself back in the vast City Hall square . |
| 14 | The moment I felt myself slipping back into that sad , old routine , I jerked myself back to the reality of the moment . |
| 15 | Surfers traced themselves back to the Duke as if he were Adam . |
| 16 | Asking the way towards Monte Samana , they found themselves back at the hospital . |
| 17 | After a few attempts at checking myself by thinking of Hattie Jacques and Eric Sykes riding a tandem , I found myself back at the doctor . |
| 18 | He conducted me back down the cold stone steps by the scruff of my neck and soon I found myself back in the street again . |
| 19 | And so I found myself back in the overgrown garden in the bright daylight . |
| 20 | However , Liverpool began to pull themselves back into the game , and in the 68th minute Bobby Mimms had to push Ian Rush 's close-range header off the line . |
| 21 | The Cherry and Whites tried to pull themselves back into the game … they huffed and puffed but could n't blow the Scottish down … and defeat means the rugby world are wondering whether Gloucester are as strong as they were … club coach keith richardson knows the truth |
| 22 | Tom flung himself back into the chair beside her , still without speaking , and Belinda stood there while Faye gave her a watchful glance . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | Thank goodness your boss has turned himself back into a wardrobe … |
| 25 | Manolo squirmed , pushing himself back against the seat . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I was going to tell her I had taken her keys and let myself back into the house , " he added , " but I arrived too late . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | BILLIONAIRE Ross Perot last night threw himself back into the race to become US President . |
| 30 | Her voice ended in a shrill scream , as she threw herself back on the table and flung open her legs . |