Example sentences of "[to-vb] back [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The green man was flashing and we were crossing it and it just li I had to jump back onto the pavement ! |
| 2 | Headward erosion is rapid at this point and regrading of the river starts to work back from the mouth . |
| 3 | In the intervening decades , there was ‘ a general trend toward spectator civility ’ ( Talamini , 1987:66 ) , only for aspects of disorder to creep back into the sport by the 1970s . |
| 4 | But costly turnovers allowed Washington to creep back into the game , despite the dominance of the Cowboys defence . |
| 5 | how had Patrick managed to creep back into the house ? |
| 6 | The maid would have to be dismissed of course … the girl had brazenly admitted allowing Patrick back into the house , and Katherine was n't sure which annoyed her more — the fact that the boy had managed to creep back into the house or the fact that he had been alone in the girl 's bedroom . |
| 7 | We do not want to creep back to the economy that we had when Labour ran the country . |
| 8 | ‘ I think I 'll be able to 'op back to the bedroom by meself , ’ said Dolly . |
| 9 | Despite all the things that happen to us , such as religious conversion , dreams , accidents , bereavement , psychological shock — all those things that pull us out of everyday reality — we tend to slip back to a belief that there is a bedrock of common sense and sensibility at the heart of things . |
| 10 | And the easiest way to escape is just to slip back into the cockpit of a racing car . |
| 11 | It was frightening , how easy it was to slip back into the past . |
| 12 | He was unhappy there but , determined not to slip back into the pits where his grandfather had wielded a pick , worked hard and won scholarships both to Jesus College , Oxford , and the University College of Aberystwyth . |
| 13 | They did n't have any money either at this point , so to get them out , I had to slip back into the States without anybody knowing and sell off everything we owned — all the furniture and household stuff . |
| 14 | Thus Eikmeyer 's network prompts the re-evaluation of the Co-operative Principle concept in terms of text variations from a prototypical case , matched by readers ' efforts to process back towards the centre by finding coherence . |
| 15 | You 're obviously more cautious than you were before , and erm a lot of kids now they tend to stand back for a while just in case 'cause you can never judge how fast they 're really going to go through there . |
| 16 | We had to stand back from the edge of the pavement as their wheels splashed along the teeming gutters . |
| 17 | In practice it is not always easy to stand back from the mass of information and choose a main message and a few submessages . |
| 18 | Here he was able to stand back from the onrush of western man and ask himself the real questions of life and meaning ; get his young life , full and successful as it had been , into perspective . |
| 19 | By reacting in this way , Jane is able to stand back from the situation and it can not hurt her as it used to do . |
| 20 | That demanded constant attention , and yet the Prime Minister must also be able to stand back from the pressure of events and think about the future . |
| 21 | It is hard for us to communicate back to a horse with body language , but we can simulate some of the horse 's actions . |
| 22 | Error comes in if one over-interprets the relevance of these conclusions , by forgetting the artificial constraints of the experiment and instead assuming that in real life , outside the laboratory so to say , such changes involving only a single variable can actually take place ; that it is a simple matter to extrapolate back from the artificiality of laboratory isolation to the complex , rich interconnectedness of the real world . |
| 23 | She did n't know how time passed , or how long it took the wild shrill crying to fade back into the sky ; but at last there was just the sound of the rain and the wind . |
| 24 | The tide was going out , she saw ; if she walked along the parade as far as the pier , she would be able to come back along the sands . |
| 25 | He would expect his visitor to come back through the door to the kitchen . |
| 26 | Assume a kneeling position and then put one foot in front of the other to come back into a standing position . |
| 27 | ‘ If a woman wanted to maintain the right to come back into a job she would have to take part in in-service courses to keep up to date with changes in the working world . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ If I did wait for Garry to come back into the fold , what would you be doing ? ’ |
| 29 | He said he 's pleased that Pakistan has decided to come back into the Commonwealth . |
| 30 | They then tell the other child to come back into the room . |