Example sentences of "[to-vb] back [prep] the old " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Let's go and find the bastards , ’ Sharpe grunted , and once he had said it he marvelled at how easy it was to slip back into the old ways of speaking about the enemy . |
2 | The verbal instructions are important — they will act as reminders in the days following the lesson and help the pupil to inhibit his natural tendency to slip back into the old habits . |
3 | But to go back to the old ways ‘ would be a colossal mistake , ’ he declared . |
4 | Nevertheless you also feel pressure on you to go back to the old ways . |
5 | After the luxury of labour-saving devices it is just too tedious to go back to the old ways . |
6 | We need to go back to the old ways : I mean , think of it , it was in the Andes that corn was improved , that the potato was developed . |
7 | ‘ I would love to go back to the old house … |
8 | Burton said that he had promised to go back to the Old Vic for £45 a week to do Hamlet , and he was sticking to it . |
9 | But Tory schools minister Michael Fallon , MP for Darlington hit back : ‘ No one wants to go back to the old days of councillors running hospitals , of Nupe deciding whether or not your operations should be carried out . ’ |
10 | Einstein 's solution was to fall back on the old Romantic notion of the Imagination , suspending his disbelief in order to conduct what he called a " thought experiment " . |
11 | It always took some time after her departure to get back into the old routine again … into the old pleasant routine . |
12 | And I do n't think everybody 's going around in eastern Europe thinking oh what we need is to get back to the old Stalinist system where you , you know , you had someone telling you what to do all the time . |
13 | Would I be able to change back to the old registration plates ? |
14 | It was an insult : they did n't need white nannies — did more than two black people in a room constitute a riot ? -were they to step back to the old plantation days ? — had Kinnock and Hattersley been drunk when they drafted the proposal ? |