Example sentences of "back [adv] to a [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 | In this programme , Stanley , at the age of 88 , looks back fondly to a time when he was , unquestionably , Champion of the World . |
| 3 | This is done to allow them time to come back gradually to a state of full alertness without any sense of shock — but it would be just as effective if I were to snap my fingers or even simply to tell them to ‘ wake up ’ . |
| 4 | Then a submersible pump , concealed in a sump , conveys it back up to a blockwork filter filled with Canterbury spar . |
| 5 | Gazzer pushed himself wearily back up to a sitting position . |
| 6 | But on the other hand I think the erm social work is now going back again to a situation where it 's really rather more specialized . |
| 7 | Cézanne worked with a full Impressionist palette , and it is evident , not only from a visual analysis of his painting , but also from his letters and from Emile Bernard 's observations on his method of work , that Cézanne relied on the exactness of tonal relationships to produce a sensation of volume and recession ; indeed , the necessity he felt to verify these relationships was one of the reasons why he was compelled to turn back continually to a study of nature . |