Example sentences of "back [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A nearby car blared its horn loudly and , to Jessamy 's intense relief , Julius seemed to get control over himself again very rapidly , steering them back on to a straight course . |
| 2 | Pitman yanked him back on to a true line and managed to steer him clear of the rails , but the two hundred yards he had left to run seemed like two hundred miles , and Red Rum was now only five lengths back . |
| 3 | ‘ Are n't we going to have something to eat ? ’ she asked as she caught up with him , trying to steer the conversation back on to a safe subject . |
| 4 | So what we actually are possibly seeing is ourselves coming out of the trough so therefore part of it 's a training curve , but we do need to see that training curve start to come down and get back on to a level but we do n't know where the level is , that 's what worries us at this stage . |
| 5 | this has got costs back on to a sensible basis , and he is convinced that this assures the Company of its place at the forefront of the european industry . |
| 6 | It was a time of speculative fever burning over western Europe , and debt holders not only rushed to exchange , many of them quickly put the stock back on to a soaring market where others rushed to take it up . |
| 7 | Accepting this , some members of the British Government seem to have fallen back on to the second misconception . |
| 8 | Eastwood admitted : ‘ I was upset at missing out in the World Cup final and really do want to get back on to the international scene as quickly as possible . |
| 9 | Ma stretches her lips and lowers her head back on to the headrest . |
| 10 | ’ Li Shai Tung nodded and eased himself back on to the great saddle of a turtle shell that was placed beside the pool . |
| 11 | And true enough , after an afternoon weaving a poem back on to the frayed ends of a loom of broken rhymes , I had leapt up and punched the air with determination . |
| 12 | We are now working on ideas to get our lists back on to the mainstream networks as well , ’ he added . |
| 13 | Success came overnight in neither case ; but a slow and steady improvement did take place , hauled back on to the right track at intervals by taking out the original contract and referring yet again to the agreed terms . |
| 14 | He did lose the lines on more than one occasion and threshed around helplessly through pauses that seemed eternal , until the A.S.M. 's quiet voice in his ear managed to get him back on to the right track . |
| 15 | By then the working class had made it back on to the front page , if only in a supporting role . |
| 16 | I sorted out old toys into boxes , got a few rolls of carpet and wallpaper back into their places from where they 'd fallen , pinned a couple of maps back on to the sloping wooden under-roof , cleared away some of the tools and bits and pieces that I 'd used to repair the Factory , and loaded the various sections of the Factory that needed to be loaded . |
| 17 | As it happened , the entire episode was resolved after The Smiths decided to repoen communications with the label and a somewhat confused Easterhouse were invited back on to the Scottish tour . |
| 18 | He turned abruptly away and Willie followed him up the lane and back on to the main street . |
| 19 | Driving with difficulty through torrential rain while thunder and lightning crashed overhead , Jack found himself in a narrow West Country lane , realising that he had missed the turning that would have brought him back on to the main road . |
| 20 | Besides , Adam had said it was a long detour to get back on to the main road , if this lane was cut off . |
| 21 | The friar then made his way back on to the main highway , past the Priory of St Mary Overy and across London Bridge . |
| 22 | There seemed nothing at all , no way of climbing back on to the free wheel of conversation they had somehow set going the other night . |
| 23 | The planning principles adopted included keeping the common circulation areas and services central — all-internal kitchens and bathrooms back on to the spinal corridor which occupies the central strip of the former nave space ( Fig 45 ) . |
| 24 | Faced with a mounting burden of debt , Edward II tried to shift the burden of support back on to the local communities . |
| 25 | Corbett joined them and waited for the tankards to empty before good-naturedly bullying Ranulf into collecting their horses and making their way back on to the deserted track to Godstowe . |
| 26 | Thus far The Buddha of Suburbia is autobiographical : thereafter Karim and Hanif go their separate ways , only getting back on to the same tracks when they both flee north of the river to west London . |
| 27 | A man who could and would talk the hind legs back on to an injured donkey , provided it had decent proletarian credentials . |
| 28 | They 'd finished their show and were coming back down to the damp and squalid cellar the management refused to redecorate because of its ‘ classic atmosphere ’ . |
| 29 | I go back over to the other side . |
| 30 | Yanto took the empty glasses back through to the main bar . |