Example sentences of "[verb] back to 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 | When he takes his foot off the pedal again , the revs will fall back to their preset level again . |
| 5 | Gloucester came back to their best and pulled level with a try from Simon Morris . |
| 6 | When they began to move the flow of blood came back to their stiffened limbs and they felt better . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They 're going back to their big tomes here . |
| 13 | Going back to their old ground are John Gorman , Terry Fenwick and John Moncur . |
| 14 | Some urban families do still look back to their rural roots ; while they may never have lived in the areas from which their ancestors originally came , they may make regular visits to the furusato and bring up their children to do likewise . |
| 15 | Crimean Tatars had been drifting back to their former homeland since 1987 , and a June 1988 central government ruling confirmed their right to residency [ see p. 36036 ] . |
| 16 | Unless they get back to their winning ways Rovers could even miss the play-offs . |
| 17 | When they get back to their own places they go to the middle and pick up a ‘ pearl ’ and go back to stand in their places . |
| 18 | After Downes had been driven away , Morse and Lewis walked back to their own car , where Morse gave urgent instructions to the forensic lab to sent a couple of their whizz-kids over to the railway station — immediately ! — and to Kidlington HQ to see that a breakdown van would be available in about an hour 's time to ferry away a certain Metro . |
| 19 | Disgusted , Douglas shouted that there were plenty of trees on the village green to hang all these , and ordered the sad crew to be herded back to their burning homes . |
| 20 | Scum back to their usual tricks , outplayed for 80mins at Everton yet scab a 1–0 win . |
| 21 | Only by getting back to their male roots can these over-complex men become better lovers , fathers and friends . |
| 22 | ‘ They 'll return back to their own world once they 've had their fun . |
| 23 | Few of them got back to their own country . |
| 24 | In vitro analyses have shown that the effect of these mutations on CytR repression is indirect and can be traced back to their inhibitory effect on DNA binding of cAMP-CRP ( 2 ) . |
| 25 | The different interpretation of positional signals by arms and legs can be traced back to their different developmental history , each bud arising at a different level along the main body axis . |
| 26 | Today they 're preparing to drive back to their tented barracks on the coast in Split , to pick up another consignment of supplies . |
| 27 | * The price of cereals in Somali markets , it says , had fallen back to their seasonal levels even before American soldiers arrived last December . |
| 28 | That 's all she says , then goes back to their private party . |
| 29 | Over the marsh stretching beyond the shingle bank at the top of the beach they hawked , snatching winged insects to carry back to their hungry young . |
| 30 | A substantial proportion can be referred back to their general practitioners once a thorough assessment has been carried out . |