Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] back to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he appeared to shake himself back to normality . |
| 2 | She gave a little shake of her head as if to pull herself back to reality . |
| 3 | you want to talk them back to safety ; |
| 4 | If you are totally fed up , one extra bar of chocolate or cake or any one single luxury item is not going to set you back to square one . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm going to put you back to bed if you do n't stop it . |
| 6 | But after you reach a certain stage in life — I 'd put it somewhere between forty-five and fifty-five — you suddenly feel you are as secure as you can be and you really ought to give something back to society . |
| 7 | Wanting a context for their work , many feel a conscious need ‘ to give something back to society ’ , to justify a ‘ self-indulgent ’ pastime , avoiding what they see as the stereotype of the male artist as self-obsessed . |
| 8 | The rowing boat near the weir — only this time they had gone too far and Uncle Albert was not strong enough to row them back to safety ; the study at Uncle Albert 's house looking warm and friendly and inviting ; the professor beetle shouting rude instructions at some little beetles that had got into difficulty ; again a glimpse of her uncle 's study ; then a turnstile — one of those that only turn one way , so once you have passed through it you ca n't get back ; playful light beams now shrieking with fear as they hurtle past the window to their destruction ; walking up the down-escalator and not being able to get anywhere ; yet another brief snatch of the study … |
| 9 | it was at this crisis point that the tour management decided to send him back to school — to Alf Gover 's famous establishment for an intensive three-day course . |
| 10 | If de Gaulle had adopted an exclusively parliamentary approach , the RPF 's victory in 1951 might have been enough to carry him back to power , but only on the system 's terms . |
| 11 | Look what happened to Flaubert : a century after his death Sartre , like some brawny , desperate lifeguard , spent ten years beating on his chest and blowing into his mouth ; ten years trying to yank him back to consciousness , just so that he could sit him up on the sands and tell him exactly what he thought of him . |
| 12 | Harry looked round desperately for the O'Hanlons to assist him , but the O'Hanlons had fainted at the very outset and had been dragged clear by Ram , who was now trying to fan them back to consciousness with a copy of the Illustrated London News . |
| 13 | They also insisted that they would blow up the mines if Ceauşescu tried to force them back to work . |
| 14 | She knew better than to invite him back to Water Gypsy for a coffee . |
| 15 | I tried to force her back to bed , but her fever made her surprisingly strong . |
| 16 | ‘ The really tragic thing is that the longer people are unemployed the harder it is to get them back to work . |
| 17 | Then they follow him obediently , relyin' on his knowledge and experience to get them back to safety . ’ |
| 18 | But he was very kind , and brought me all the M & B tablets he could find , with instructions to get you back to bed , and to keep you from other children , and give you M & B every four hours until you were sick , and then try them again very slowly . |
| 19 | Owen : Well Kevin , we are trying , and we 'll be working with your parents on this , to get you back to school and up onto that list up there … see … that 's a list of those who 've returned to school . |
| 20 | Hope to get you back to school on Monday , it seems awful if you 've had a week off and then your not well . |
| 21 | We have to get everybody back to man these ramparts . ’ |
| 22 | He stayed with Palace , totted up 180 league appearances and tried all he knew to get us back to Division Two . |
| 23 | Then he wrote to Mike for more ‘ counselling ’ , whereupon Mike offered to coach him back to fitness — on the telephone . |
| 24 | Tuesday 27th we camped at East Twinbrook , about five miles from where the waterway ends and where the Chewonki van would be waiting to take us back to camp . |
| 25 | It was in a desperate attempt to woo them back to work two years ago that Spencer 's established its nursery . |
| 26 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 27 | DNA from the blood of dinosaurs is supposedly used to bring them back to life . |
| 28 | Trust Mrs Bradshaw to bring me back to reality . |
| 29 | Shake out your limbs , stamp your feet ( to bring you back to terra-firma ) , have a good stretch . |
| 30 | Without giving me any warning at all she decided to bring herself back to life . |