Example sentences of "back [prep] the old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back through the old progs I do n't see much sign of Forrester at all ! |
| 2 | Then she looked straight back into the old lady 's pale grey eyes and added , " Though I did hear tell that it was Sir Gregory himself , ma'am . " |
| 3 | Plenty of men could n't settle back into the old ruts after the war . |
| 4 | This suffering may be associated with rapidly changing configurations of personality , being a new person one day , and sinking back into the old self on the next , only to find that some minor episode puts the new organisation of self again in a position of regnancy . |
| 5 | It was later , in the boredom of those long , lonely evenings , that her resolve collapsed and , despite herself , she slipped back into the old habits of sniping at Marie , horrified at what she was doing to them both , yet unable , in her bitterness and isolation , to stop herself . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Then , looking back into the old recipes for English fruit fools , we find that trifles , syllabubs , creams and fools have all at some point merged one with the other . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | i was amazed at how quickly and easily I fell back into the old routine , and my fears that I had become brain-dead during my months at home turned out to be unfounded . |
| 10 | It always took some time after her departure to get back into the old routine again … into the old pleasant routine . |
| 11 | Without the moral strength of the New Thinking it will fall back into the old corruption . |
| 12 | Peggy stepped back from the old woman . |
| 13 | happier when it was back in the old feet and inches . |
| 14 | With her thoughts on another , simpler life back in the old country , Kelly put the letter in an envelope , picked up her coat and left for London . |
| 15 | If Jitters did n't have a wife and kids back in the old country — which , come to think of it , he probably did n't these days — he might just have dragged Fat Old Stinky Juanita up before the padre and tied the old knot . |
| 16 | And some of them , of course , emigrated to the United States because they could n't cope with life back in the old lands , the Shakers , are they part of the same sort |
| 17 | On second thoughts I think it best to put it back in the old oak chest . |
| 18 | But Anya 's a better judge of character than she used to be , back in the old homeland . |
| 19 | When you , when you expect that that that that takes the copy back in the old file . |
| 20 | Back in the old days , in the Fifties , before the nights of car-park-training , people kept big dogs , with names like Nero and Saladin , Sakkie and Doris ; dogs that roamed the sandy ex-Servicemen 's estate where I grew up , on the edge of Johannesburg , a jumble of sandy streets named after English kings and queens . |
| 21 | Even now , a hard up local could be sure of a free pint just by telling Knocker he had watched him fight at Gloucester 's annual Barton Fair , back in the old days . |
| 22 | Self Inflicted Wound , that was how they had referred to sunburn back in the old days of Counter Insurgency . |
| 23 | way back in the old days but Now then , |
| 24 | ‘ They built things differently back in the old days . |
| 25 | He would come exuberantly into the office after ops with his crew tagging along behind him , to tell us that our weather forecast had been spot on , it had all been a piece of cake , bombs went down — Wham ! — right on the target , no trouble at all , good show ! , and here they were back on the old tarmac , cheating death again , etc . |
| 26 | We 've , I do n't know if everyone 's worked the same system , but we 're back on the old appointment system . |
| 27 | She lost her balance and fell back on the old iron bedstead , pulling the old woman off her feet . |
| 28 | But all good things must come to an end ; back on the old routine mixing it with the Luftwaffe and all they could muster — and their reaction was tremendous . |
| 29 | They wo n't do away with them , no but cos they , they 're trying to do away with the National Dock Labour Board and come back to the old system . |
| 30 | The big improvement with the council tax is that we 've gone back to the old system which is 100% rebates for those classified on low income . |