Example sentences of "[noun pl] back into [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Among certain groups living in southern Africa the labia can be as long as seven inches and the owners of such equipment have to push the lips back into the vaginal opening in order to get on with their daily tasks .
2 That is , they translate words back into the same modality of bodily experience from which those who spoke the words derived them from within their own bodies .
3 Then , once the revs increase above 4000 , the valve opens to link all six air intakes and turn the separate units back into a straight six engine .
4 Not bothering to put the designs back into the black plastic cylinder , Paul stuffed them under his arm .
5 Then skim off the fat , pour the juices back into the roasting tin and bubble them up .
6 Cotterell made an attempt to push the remaining files back into a stable heap .
7 They include the products of the spread of the reptiles back into the aqueous environment from which their distant ancestors emerged , and , for the first time in the history of the vertebrates , the conquest of the air .
8 It lasted 26 years before John Bays , who is still competition secretary , allowed the professionals back into the Senior Cup , and the bowl which they had competed for became the prize for a new competition , the Essex Senior Trophy .
9 She slid her hands from his cheekbones back into the thick waves of his dark , silken hair .
10 Hang the curtains by inserting one curtain hook into each glider on track or pole and draw the curtains back into an open position .
11 He claimed that their plans to dump the roubles back into the Soviet money supply had been forestalled , a matter of hours before it was due to begin , only by his quick decision to order the immediate withdrawal of the high-denomination rouble notes .
12 The first stage must have been the re-establishment of Eadwine 's Humbrian confederacy to embrace Lindsey , for example , over which Oswald certainly established himself as a conqueror ( HE 111 , 11 ) , and to bring the Mercians back into a dependent relationship ; and the second to restore Eadwine 's position of dominance in southern England .
13 Robyn sank her hands back into the soapy water again .
14 The leadership of the NECC is well aware of the contradictions in urging children back into the overcrowded classrooms of a system still based on apartheid principles .
15 He was interested in how far Siward had taken his men back into the untouched part of the forest , where the clearing kept for the highway from Dunedin to the Forth crossing had encouraged the fire to turn to one side , helped by the slight change of wind .
16 They suggest that warnings by Mr Major that a vote for the Liberal Democrats could let Labour into Downing Street by the ‘ back door ’ may have frightened some waverers back into the Tory fold .
17 She pushed the papers back into the large Crockford and looked round the room , realising there ought to be a servants ' stair to the first floor continuing the one running from the ground floor to the basement .
18 By a supreme effort I managed to feed a few inches back into the vaginal opening but as soon as I relaxed it popped quietly out again .
19 The writer-self tunnels back into the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart , into the lumber room , dark and sometimes frightening , where memory dwells .
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