Example sentences of "[to-vb] back [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A psychological study ( Californian again ) once tried to explain why people were hard to tempt back to public transport . |
| 2 | We are being trained to stand back in humble awe from the work of nature , and not to interpose our alien human values . |
| 3 | Continuing that theme , would it not be right to say though that Plato only gave to come back into human form to those people such as philosophers and that most other people would come back as some other form . |
| 4 | MIRACLE man John Salako last night showed Paul Gascoigne the way to bounce back from serious injury . |
| 5 | First , the pressures on teachers involved in innovation to revert back in traditional content and methods are strong . |
| 6 | However the fossils can also be reinterpreted to fit back into old phyla : |
| 7 | In 1965 , in the Brezhnev era to which many old-style Communists were to look back with fond nostalgia , an Englishman observing the May Day festival on Red Square wrote : ‘ The tourists , even the Americans , are delighted : they clap , cheer , photograph , and at the end simply gasp , as if they have just seen the greatest show on earth … |
| 8 | It barely exists , and gives up completely after Dubh Lochan , leaving the hoodwinked walker to stumble back through huge peat hags , and over miles of outrageously rough ground . |
| 9 | THE Chancellor , who has had his troubles with the Press , took his chance to hit back with obvious glee yesterday . |
| 10 | ‘ And you have no plans to go back into general nursing ? ’ |
| 11 | Referring to the Dairy Crest sale , Ross Buckland , the Australian who took charge at Unigate in 1990 , says : ‘ I have not attempted to go back into past history and judge the merits of that decision . ’ |
| 12 | But my guess is early retirement too , unless you 're prepared to go back to divisional work . |
| 13 | Church planting leaders may have to go back to secular employment for a time to finance the new work . |
| 14 | ‘ You do n't want to go back to Red Cottage ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Well , ’ snaps Richard , happy to flip back into non-analytical filth-talk autodrive , ‘ then we 'll fuck 'em all . |
| 16 | She had only to sit back with perfect composure — something at which she was adept — and wait for him to find his way through the necessary preliminaries to the real business of this meeting . |
| 17 | As she hitched up the fox fur draped about her neck , she was tempted now and then to give them a regal wave but decided that to sit back in dignified hauteur was more fitting to her role . |
| 18 | This is not to say that we have to fall back on Old Testament catastrophism . |
| 19 | Capacitor C now charges in the opposite sense while the positive feedback holds the output at until the potential at the inverting input falls below causing the circuit output to switch back into positive saturation . |
| 20 | EUROPE 'S three largest data-processing firms are planning to fight back against national research programmes that companies in Japan and the US are running . |
| 21 | It is perhaps an anachronism to read back into New Testament times the usage of second-century Christians whereby this word ‘ seal ’ was explicitly used of baptism , or sometimes confirmation . |
| 22 | Salespeople should also be encouraged to send back to head office information which is relevant to the marketing of company products . |
| 23 | The Manchester United star was diagnosed as having meningitis and is only now starting to battle back to full fitness after having the fright of his young life . |
| 24 | Jaq could order Vitali to drop back into normal space and no doubt could force the old woman to comply . |
| 25 | The answer is to drop back to conscious competence every now and again to check things out and eradicate the bad habits . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm grateful to Omagh and Roy McCreadie for giving me an opportunity to get back into senior soccer . |
| 27 | Then one time after we 've had a rough mission and trying to get back on flying status an'all , we flew over to your Hundredth Bomb Group field and this did the there with crew . |
| 28 | After the pilot 's personal safety , the safety of the aircraft must be the next most important consideration ; it is always safer to land out than to risk trying to get back with marginal height . |
| 29 | It seems he was totally bewildered by the streams of traffic and all the noise and was very glad to get back to rural tranquillity . |
| 30 | Although they make a go of the cinema for a while , by showing desert pictures and pushing up the heat so that they can sell cool refreshments , their only aim is to get back to middle-class life , but with enough money to avoid any more ‘ petty , stupid problems . ’ |