Example sentences of "turn back [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tory turned back for a last look at the rejected blooms as the ponies moved off . |
| 2 | Cautiously glancing around her , seeing how many people were in earshot should she need to shout , she turned back with a lame smile . |
| 3 | The major question thus always remains unanswered in the Critique : every time that Sartre announces that he is about to proceed with the fundamental problem of how History can be a totalization without a totalizer , he turns back to a previous , more easily intelligible stage on the way . |
| 4 | The tide is beginning to turn back to a gentler , safer and more effective approach to the treatment of ill-health and disease . |
| 5 | The advent of war was not seen by Unionists as a need to turn back to a conventional patriotism , for Unionists had never doubted the patriotism of their previous stance . |
| 6 | It was impossible to hug and kiss her with those letters in the background ( all the more , since this was to be their first , and thus an unforgettable , kiss ) , and so he had no choice but to turn back with a bitter sense of capitulation . |
| 7 | Saussure , third on Mont Blanc , had to turn back from a surveying expedition when his 17 guides mutinied , throwing his food down the mountain ! |