Example sentences of "[verb] back into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If all goes according to plan the enemy will fall back into a defensive position to the west of the area , around an airfield . |
| 2 | Soon the greater numbers of the Chaos force began to tell , and Magnus 's army was gradually pushed back into a defensive circle . |
| 3 | As she responded , he increased the pressure of his lips on hers until she realised what he was trying to do , and slowly allowed herself to be pushed back into a lying position . |
| 4 | YOU MAY sneer — God knows , my upper lip has been twitching like the pelvis of Elvis throughout this re-birth — but it is odd how bands can trundle on for decades , blithely ignored , while Madness were thrust back into a critical firing line . |
| 5 | Rostov saw that his hair had been drawn back into a neat queue which had been tied with ribbon then folded decoratively forward across the top of his head . |
| 6 | From a different political quarter , the Green movement is resurrecting environmental issues which again tie back into a possible new vogue for planning . |
| 7 | But one problem which employers may face is employees ' reluctance to move to a cheaper area as they can foresee the difficulty of moving back into a high-priced housing area later on . |
| 8 | Her hair was snow-white and brushed back into a neat bun . |
| 9 | Sleek city style is waved and brushed back into a soft full shape for casual dressing . |
| 10 | Set back into a thick hazelnut hedge across a stony roadway , facing these buildings , is a structure which , again , the sun never blesses : the garden 's fruit house . |
| 11 | His speech goes back into a relaxed drawl , eyebrows half-cocked this time , and a mischievous glint makes the instigator of this flash of temper wonder whether he meant it in the first place . |
| 12 | The possible effect from 1994–5 onwards of the lifting of the cap on QR income has encouraged the University to prepare plans which , if its assumptions about future funding levels are realised , will allow it to reinforce the physical infrastructure of the University as well as funding academic developments , while bringing the Income and Expenditure Account back into a cumulative surplus by 31 July 1996 . |
| 13 | However far out an animal may seem to be going there is a tendency to swing back into a pre-ordained behaviour or orbit within which motivational satisfaction may be most probably attained . |
| 14 | With the plaintiff 's cooperation and the assistance of care , they have seen to it that the plaintiff was not to be institutionalised and that she was to be brought back into a loving home and encouraged to be the thinking , intelligent and lively person she still is . |
| 15 | A front leg-stretching exercise : from a walking stance throw up the leg , keeping the knee joint locked and toes pulled back into a high position . |
| 16 | We have simultaneously slipped back into a compromising embrace with the very form of instrumental utilitarianism which got the world into such a mess in the first place : that things are of value because they are of value to us , not because they are of value in themselves . |
| 17 | Dressed in intriguingly pinkish-blue Levi 501s ( ‘ I put them in the washing machine with a pink sweatshirt ’ ) and a lemon coloured blouse , her hair 's pulled back into a simple ponytail . |
| 18 | When the electric field is released , the dipoles can relax back into a random orientation , but , due to the frictional resistance experienced by the groups in the bulk polymer this will not be instantaneous . |
| 19 | As the family grew up the wife could take a less active part in the farm work especially when the son left school but occasionally they found it difficult to settle back into a domestic routine . |
| 20 | Thus progress always overreaches itself and mankind falls back into a new barbarism . |
| 21 | The rear rim of the hole in Triceratops ’ skull grew back into a bony frill on which the membrane was attached ( although this may also have been a display structure ) , so that the muscles could enlarge . |
| 22 | Naturally curly or permed hair can be scraped back into a formal look or left casual for the evenings |
| 23 | This was something that Picasso had also conveyed in the necks of the Horta figures , where the area between the projecting tendons appears to have been cut back into a deep recess . |
| 24 | The skull seems to become translucent , and within it — and in the flesh about it — knotted cords of white begin to form into a spiral which funnels back into a single thicker cord at the back of the skull . |
| 25 | Bewildered , she felt as if she 'd stepped back into a dark cave and was falling into the unknown . |
| 26 | I felt I had stepped back into a thirties ' film and that in the morning , when we went down into the bar for café au lait , Arletty and Jean Gabin would be leaning on the zinc counter . |
| 27 | Fergus had gone back into a deep sleep . |
| 28 | She had always had grey hair , scraped back into a no-nonsense knot and wore baggy knitted suits . |
| 29 | Even with her glorious hair scraped back into a loose bun , and with her hands and face smeared with soap and sweat from the exertions of scrubbing the galley stove , she looked utterly beguiling . |
| 30 | They were up and ready for inspection , with the tent down and folded back into a small square by six thirty . |