Example sentences of "[to-vb] back [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worst of all , they liked to swell back to their original dimensions in water and this swelling was generally unpredictable and irreversible . |
| 2 | A statement such as ‘ That makes me feel very angry/unhappy/sad/upset when you do that ’ rather than immediately shouting at the child enables parents to stand back from their immediate emotional reactions and also teach the child awareness of other people 's feelings . |
| 3 | However , they agreed to come back for their next session , in which Tom said , ‘ We have thought about what you said last week , and neither of us likes the idea of having ‘ tartiness ’ in our relationship , as you put it . |
| 4 | Warrington Town bid to bounce back after their first defeat in eight games in midweek when they take on Alfreton Town in the HFS First Division at Cantilever Park . |
| 5 | Everton travel to Nottingham Forest for a vital relegation battle , Liverpool aim to bounce back from their European exit at home to Middlesbrough while Tarnmere have an attractive top of the table clash at Leicester . |
| 6 | Later , after a deliberately nostalgic and painful visit to St Juliot in March 1913 , he was able to look back at their early days together in ‘ At Castle Boterel ’ , ‘ Beeny Cliff ’ , ‘ The phantom horsewoman ’ , and eventually to come to terms , however imperfectly , with his memories . |
| 7 | Today they 're preparing to drive back to their tented barracks on the coast in Split , to pick up another consignment of supplies . |
| 8 | Over the marsh stretching beyond the shingle bank at the top of the beach they hawked , snatching winged insects to carry back to their hungry young . |
| 9 | Once a consensus had been reached , it had no legal standing , but Citrine expected the chairmen to go back to their own Boards and secure acceptance of the common policy . |
| 10 | Jean : She 's told some kids to go back to their own country . |
| 11 | Old Señor Freitas coughed , before he said , ‘ Sometimes señoritas have families who want them to go back to their own country . ’ |
| 12 | Is their going to be lots of escapes and that sort of thing by people who do n't want to go back to their own country |
| 13 | Whether he did or did not , he was back in very short order saying that the crew had decided to go back to their old squadron , and I cleared him to return to his squadron that same afternoon . |
| 14 | They now intend to go back to their original preferred scheme for a twice weekly market in nearby pedestrianised Station Road . |
| 15 | as if , in part , to fight back at their crushing fate , the Welsh families in those industrial valleys bred and grew and savoured their own with biblical fruitfulness and devotion . |
| 16 | The Bewick Swans will leave Slimbridge to fly back to their Russian breeding grounds next March . |
| 17 | They probably did n't have to refer back to their superiors-those mysterious Controllers , be they human or not — for instructions , they probably had their contingency plans all ready and prepared . |
| 18 | The front rows need to get back into their customary crouched stance . |
| 19 | During this period it is essential that all the staff 's normal duties are covered for them , nothing is more likely to prevent successful training than constant telephone interruptions and the need for the staff to get back to their normal work . |
| 20 | ‘ It would need an increase of 100 per cent in the ewe premiums for the farmers to get back to their previous levels of income at the beginning of the 1980s . ’ |
| 21 | It was a damning report on America 's VD service by her international peers and colleagues , many of whom , it might be added , had little better to offer back in their own countries . |
| 22 | One way or the other , market competition between firms doing independent R&D may result in excessive R&D , and co-operating rivals will have an incentive to cut back on their total R&D . |