Example sentences of "[verb] back [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood staring out of the window into the shifting , cloying mist and wondered about Mathilda 's ghosts trooping back to their worm-eaten beds . |
| 2 | Worst of all , they liked to swell back to their original dimensions in water and this swelling was generally unpredictable and irreversible . |
| 3 | Middlesbrough race tomorrow night for the final week before reverting back to their usual Wednesday evening slot . |
| 4 | They were catapulted back on their own ball , which not only put the pressure on Nicol but meant there could be no back-row moves to take the heat off the threequarters . |
| 5 | If they witness something frightening , if they see someone messing up at school or losing friends , they 'll show concern , distance themselves from anything really threatening , enjoy a little frisson of fear and then slip back towards their old habits . |
| 6 | A statement such as ‘ That makes me feel very angry/unhappy/sad/upset when you do that ’ rather than immediately shouting at the child enables parents to stand back from their immediate emotional reactions and also teach the child awareness of other people 's feelings . |
| 7 | However , they agreed to come back for their next session , in which Tom said , ‘ We have thought about what you said last week , and neither of us likes the idea of having ‘ tartiness ’ in our relationship , as you put it . |
| 8 | In an editorial on 2 November 1985 , headlined ‘ Unfinished Business ’ , it asked ‘ whether the structures and institutions of British life have been so shaken by six years of Mrs Thatcher that they can no longer fall back into their old ways — or whether more shaking is needed ? ’ |
| 9 | When he takes his foot off the pedal again , the revs will fall back to their preset level again . |
| 10 | Individuals or small groups are carefully trained in the new methods and then put back into their usual working positions . |
| 11 | Looking back on their ten years of marriage , Davina and Alastair feel they stopped being in touch with what their needs were after their children were born . |
| 12 | Billy looked annoyed and was about to say something when Knocker came back with their two pints of cider , looking more like tea cups in his massive fists . |
| 13 | Gloucester came back to their best and pulled level with a try from Simon Morris . |
| 14 | When they began to move the flow of blood came back to their stiffened limbs and they felt better . |
| 15 | While they all climb back into their ancient cars I take Rufus aside for a talk . |
| 16 | He had married late , a buxom research scientist from Cambridge twenty years his junior , and drove back to their modern flat on the outskirts of the city each night in his Jaguar — his chief extravagance frequently late , but seldom too late to bear her off to their local pub . |
| 17 | For example , mothers report how they cut back on their own consumption of food in order to protect the living standards of children and partners . |
| 18 | Warrington Town bid to bounce back after their first defeat in eight games in midweek when they take on Alfreton Town in the HFS First Division at Cantilever Park . |
| 19 | Everton travel to Nottingham Forest for a vital relegation battle , Liverpool aim to bounce back from their European exit at home to Middlesbrough while Tarnmere have an attractive top of the table clash at Leicester . |
| 20 | The pace the pattern was set seconds later , as Oxford roared back with their first attack . |
| 21 | The eight little plastic tiles can always be pushed back into their original state ( if you can remember the sequence of moves you have made so far ) . |
| 22 | In this campaign too — the battle of the River Ebro — the government forces had the initial advantage of surprise , but their much depleted physical and military strength made them unable to turn it to their permanent advantage and they were eventually pushed back to their original positions . |
| 23 | People had moved back into their own homes though the camp was still in existence . |
| 24 | Paul and Malcolm Bream first spent time exploring possible sources of voluntary funding , and then saw what might be done with the local authority , but have now turned back to their original search for their own place . |
| 25 | At the conclusion of The Return of the King , the third of the three books — Tolkien always denied they were a trilogy — Frodo and his friends ride back to their lost land , to discover that ‘ they cared about it more than any other place in the world ’ , though its cottages and gardens have been laid waste and replaced by ugly new houses and factories belching smoke ; and they defeat the ruffians who had defiled it and resume the kingdom of little men . |
| 26 | Then , as soon as they were given access to each other , and also to the small molecules needed as raw materials , in water , both got back to their old tricks even though they were no longer in a living cell but in a test tube . |
| 27 | This is an alternative to war which states could in theory accept without giving up their own moral values , going back on their own factual claims , losing their dignity in the community of nations , or giving up their political endeavours to persuade others to their point of view . |
| 28 | The Russians stuck firmly to the Moscow terminology of December 1945 , including the reference to trusteeship , the reason being that they wished to prevent the Americans from going back on their past support for trusteeship . |
| 29 | They 're going back to their big tomes here . |
| 30 | Going back to their old ground are John Gorman , Terry Fenwick and John Moncur . |