Example sentences of "back into [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | They were up and ready for inspection , with the tent down and folded back into a small square by six thirty . |
2 | But one problem which employers may face is employees ' reluctance to move to a cheaper area as they can foresee the difficulty of moving back into a high-priced housing area later on . |
3 | Keeping a tight grip , she slowly swung her leg back into a normal position , laying the scalpel down on the end of the bed . |
4 | The news that she had in fact been successful in her interview went a very long way to ease her bruised feelings — so much so that when the day dawned when she was to start her new job she almost forgot to pull her hair back into a screwed-up knot , and to don her glasses . |
5 | They wanted not merely to take anti-pollution and anti-nuclear measures , but also to change Germany back into a rural economy , yet they grew rapidly in appeal after 1981 and attracted the sympathy of leftists who were dissatisfied with the moderation of the SPD . |
6 | Bewildered , she felt as if she 'd stepped back into a dark cave and was falling into the unknown . |
7 | Dressed in intriguingly pinkish-blue Levi 501s ( ‘ I put them in the washing machine with a pink sweatshirt ’ ) and a lemon coloured blouse , her hair 's pulled back into a simple ponytail . |
8 | Cotterell made an attempt to push the remaining files back into a stable heap . |
9 | This was something that Picasso had also conveyed in the necks of the Horta figures , where the area between the projecting tendons appears to have been cut back into a deep recess . |
10 | Fergus had gone back into a deep sleep . |
11 | Mrs Clark is said to be stable in the burns unit of Stoke Mandeville hospital tonight … and according to her son hoping to move back into a new caravan . |
12 | Mrs Clark is said to be stable in the burns unit of Stoke Mandeville hospital tonight … and according to her son hoping to move back into a new caravan . |
13 | Thus progress always overreaches itself and mankind falls back into a new barbarism . |
14 | If all goes according to plan the enemy will fall back into a defensive position to the west of the area , around an airfield . |
15 | Soon the greater numbers of the Chaos force began to tell , and Magnus 's army was gradually pushed back into a defensive circle . |
16 | The objects in Braque 's painting like the Still Life with Fruit Dish ( Moderna Museet , Stockholm ) , which is roughly contemporary with the Compotier , are more faceted , and the whole surface is broken up in terms of the same angular but subtly modulated planes which carry the eye back into a limited depth and then forward again on to the picture plane in a series of gentle declivities and projections . |
17 | How can I turn it back into a 4 x 4 ? |
18 | But Liverpool , desperate to reorganise themselves back into a title-chasing outfit , wanted the smooth-passing Clough for a vital role in midfield . |
19 | But the bottle helped then , helped dull the pain , helped quell the shivering , helped ease her back into a dreamless sleep . |
20 | It did n't operate from the bank , and it 's the intention of the council to turn it back into a water-based boat hiring business so there will be nothing along the bank at all . |
21 | Slowly but inevitably they had drifted back into a loving relationship , culminating three months ago in their engagement . |
22 | With the plaintiff 's cooperation and the assistance of care , they have seen to it that the plaintiff was not to be institutionalised and that she was to be brought back into a loving home and encouraged to be the thinking , intelligent and lively person she still is . |
23 | A trail leads above the fall , and we follow it back into a narrow gorge , proceeding carefully — at times it is only a foot wide , and 50 feet above the creek . |
24 | YOU MAY sneer — God knows , my upper lip has been twitching like the pelvis of Elvis throughout this re-birth — but it is odd how bands can trundle on for decades , blithely ignored , while Madness were thrust back into a critical firing line . |
25 | We have to think ourselves back into a social system and culture very different from our own if we are to respond , in the way P. C. Wren required , to the improbable events and exalted sentiments of the three Geste brothers who , to serve their adored aunt and their fraternal obligations , vanished into the Foreign Legion , taking upon themselves the imputation of having stolen the blue diamond which she had long ago sold and replaced by a fake for the sake of her extravagant husband . |
26 | Secure on her own ground ( she 's locked the door from the inside and pocketed the key ) , Anya cuts the cords binding Riva 's wrists and ankles , and slips the gun back into a gangsterish shoulder-holster straight out of a B-movie props department . |
27 | The first stage must have been the re-establishment of Eadwine 's Humbrian confederacy to embrace Lindsey , for example , over which Oswald certainly established himself as a conqueror ( HE 111 , 11 ) , and to bring the Mercians back into a dependent relationship ; and the second to restore Eadwine 's position of dominance in southern England . |
28 | As the family grew up the wife could take a less active part in the farm work especially when the son left school but occasionally they found it difficult to settle back into a domestic routine . |
29 | Set back into a thick hazelnut hedge across a stony roadway , facing these buildings , is a structure which , again , the sun never blesses : the garden 's fruit house . |
30 | Even with her glorious hair scraped back into a loose bun , and with her hands and face smeared with soap and sweat from the exertions of scrubbing the galley stove , she looked utterly beguiling . |