Example sentences of "back [adv] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shriek that went up as she sank back on to a wicker sofa drumming her heels on the ground and yelling and shouting that she wished he were dead , and that she 'd been dishonoured , made him quite alarmed . |
| 2 | The failure of the revolution in Europe , together with events in China and elsewhere , forced the colonial issue back on to the agenda at the Fourth ( 1922 ) , Fifth ( 1924 ) and Sixth ( 1928 ) Comintern Congresses . |
| 3 | Why has it taken so long to bring interconnection back on to the agenda ? |
| 4 | He wrapped this and the fat-soaked bread in sheets of clean newspaper taken from the bathroom , then climbed back on to the stool to see what else he could find . |
| 5 | Perhaps the train in Aunt Louise 's mind had jumped back on to the rail for a while because it was then , in quite a conversational voice , that she began to speak of her daughter . |
| 6 | Because now Cardiff was hauling them through the staircase door and back on to the first-floor landing . |
| 7 | Then he eased her back on to the chaise-longue and gave her a stern look . |
| 8 | If you use brilliant white flowers , such as larkspur or some of the daisies , you must ensure that there are several light tones in the picture , otherwise one 's eye will automatically focus on the white flowers and only then fall back on to the rest of the picture . |
| 9 | Pushing it back on to the desk without taking her eyes from it , she said , ‘ I do n't quite see . |
| 10 | She pushed all serious thoughts to the back of her mind and climbed back on to the helter-skelter of excitement and self-confidence induced by the undisguised admiration of Karl Gesner . |
| 11 | Suddenly it 's all there , complete with toilet paper , which you use and then deftly wind back on to the roll . |
| 12 | She slumped back on to the sofa , revealing quite a lot of bare thigh . |
| 13 | She slumped back on to the sofa , burying her face in her hands . |
| 14 | Owen caught her and eased her gently back on to the sofa . |
| 15 | Steve flopped back on to the sofa , his legs over the arm , cradling the glass of champagne in two hands . |
| 16 | Tallis tugged the body back on to the animal , then climbed into the saddle behind it . |
| 17 | Slowly ‘ crunch ’ your head and knees together and then lower your head back on to the floor . |
| 18 | Before doing so I should say by way of parenthesis that I have totally bypassed the colleagues who are currently members of the Government , several of whom suggested privately that they would resign if the Maastricht bill or anything like it is brought back on to the floor of the House of Commons . |
| 19 | Now he has had a chance to regroup and fall back on to the kind of terrain of which he is master — the written minute . |
| 20 | Then you can either put it back on to the soil it came from or , before doing this , keep it for a day or two in a small container lined with damp paper tissue . |
| 21 | Howard sinks back on to the day-bed . |
| 22 | She screwed the lid back on to the bottle and replaced it back in the cabinet . |
| 23 | But the ball cannoned into a tree , back on to the course and he salvaged his par to get into the play-off . |
| 24 | He stepped back on to the deck . |
| 25 | There was a thump as the lorry hit the bank , heeled over , and then bounced back on to the lane . |
| 26 | Harry looked into his glass as if he could see for miles and Charles nudged him back on to the subject . |
| 27 | I tried to get him back on to the subject . |
| 28 | A tip to speed up putting a knitted piece back on to the machine in gathers — as in the skirt for the doll , two stitches to each needle . |
| 29 | From there they went darting across the boiling surface like a dragon-fly , skimming with the currents where the banks were swept too open and smooth to hold flotsam , swinging aside round the sergeant 's paddle in the marked spots ; round the shovel-shaped end of Eel Island , which had scooped up a full load of branches , twigs , uprooted grass , and even more curious trophies , but not what they were seeking ; a little way down the sluggish backwater beyond , until motion ceased in stagnant shallows , and still there was nothing ; out into the flood again , hopping back on to the current as on to a moving belt that whisked them away ; revolving out of the race again where the trees leaned down into the water at the curve by the Lacey farm , acting like a great , living grille to filter out debris ; clean across the width of the river at the next coil , to where the long , sandy shallow ran out and encircled a miniature beach . |
| 30 | And with that she reversed the van , turned it round and drove back on to the road . |