Example sentences of "back to a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staggering to her feet she looked back towards the wounded man ; he had slumped to the floor , and was trying to push himself back to a kneeling position . |
| 2 | Then slowly Father McGiff raised himself back to a kneeling position and , taking off his spectacles , he made the sign of the cross before closing his eyes in prayer . |
| 3 | Christians , both Catholic and Protestant , have argued thus , as have Muslim scholars looking back to a golden age when Islamic thinkers were at the forefront of the physical sciences . |
| 4 | The hourly off-peak service from Euston to Liverpool and Manchester was an early casualty when the service was cut back to a ninety-minute headway , but the most far-reaching change concerned the Anglo-Scottish services between Euston and Glasgow . |
| 5 | At one time he tried to assemble his thoughts in some way ; would it be better to go back to a law-office stool , with prospects of promotion , such as he had thankfully left to go to Glasgow , to Oxford , then to London ? |
| 6 | So Miss 's point is very appropriate to bring a report back to a future committee in the near future , er , that covers the queries that have been raised by members , and the Government 's new policies or new proposals , I will take instructions from the Chief Executive on that , and will , er subject to the Chief Executive 's review , also cover matters such as structure plan , and the co-ordination of this er , within , within the local authority . |
| 7 | By that time we should have sorted out this business of the poison pen letter and you 'll be able to get back to a normal life again . ’ |
| 8 | With the help of counsellors , residents here prepare to go back to a normal life … without drink . |
| 9 | Lancelot , although befriended by a hermit , can not be brought back to a normal state of mind because the hermit is too poor to feed him properly , and ‘ for defaute of sustenance he waxed more wooder than he was aforetyme ’ , and became violent , breaking the legs and arms of those who tried to help him . |
| 10 | Eastern winds have brought what had been fair sport back to a normal level for the time of year . |
| 11 | The indicator light above the visor edged back to a normal reading . |
| 12 | However , healthy skin rebounds back to a normal pH of 4.5 in about 10–15 minutes . |
| 13 | Simmel asserts that many of the attitudes which surround , and were created through the impact of , money as abstraction are most evident when it has not completely achieved its role in transforming its own social context , and where there are still structures which resist this transformation and hark back to a non-monetarized era . |
| 14 | The children being sent back to a violent father . |
| 15 | All this led Barth back to a closer reading of the Bible , and especially of Paul . |
| 16 | Carry out deadheading often , combining with light pruning where appropriate by cutting back to a strong bud well down the stem . |
| 17 | Surprisingly , the turning point that saw a struggling business transformed into a trendsetting group that has become a household name can be traced back to a Dutch merchant banker , who persuaded Conran to widen his horizons . |
| 18 | You may also be able to refer back to a recent rise in merit pay or bonus in your response . |
| 19 | According to Melbourne Sunday Press reporter Dennis Williams , the paper interviewed a hypnotist , Mr Bill Bakha , who claimed to have taken Kylie back to a former life as a waif called Caitrin in 19th century Ireland . |
| 20 | According to the suit , she initiated a ‘ vicious cycle of regressing this young man back to a three-year-old child ’ . |
| 21 | Once the condition clears up , switch back to a mild shampoo . |
| 22 | Drove back to a late dinner . |
| 23 | These children may continue on puréed foods for considerable periods of time or even start to reject all solids and revert back to a liquid diet . |
| 24 | If their work is seasonal , do n't forget to change them back to a standard adult food ( so-called ‘ maintenance food ’ ) when they 're not working . |
| 25 | I read about 3.54 , 4.3 and 3.9 , what do they mean , which is best and will it solve the problem or should I just change back to a standard cam ? |
| 26 | Two of his comrades had relatively minor head wounds and received first aid in the trench before heading back to a safer area . |
| 27 | Welcoming the emergence of greater consensus on a solution for the debt crisis , he urged the international community to " go much farther and faster " in debt reduction , in order to " bring the debt back to a reasonable proportion of export capacity , to permit more domestic investment , and to restore creditworthiness and resumed voluntary lending " . |
| 28 | But behind him there was a large array of saints , customs , observances , and claims of one kind or another going back to a remote past . |
| 29 | After countless ages I seemed to come back to a real realisation that I was continuing to breathe , even if with difficulty , and did n't seem in immediate danger of stopping . |
| 30 | I particularly found the Aldershot method important because what it gives you is a clear structure to what you have to say when you stand up if you 're going to introduce by saying what you 're going to say before you expand and then at the end summarise and bring it all back to a nice conclusion . |