Example sentences of "back to its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | His mind had at last found its way back to its usual cast when he heard Sara 's friend talking to her . |
2 | He covered his eyes with both hands and walked the path of his life backwards , back to its first source , and was again young , quite young . |
3 | If man does not bring to the universal conscience the paramount importance of self-control , monitored with reference to some all-powerful influence such as the Created God of this book , there is a grave danger that he could send his earth back to its pre-life state . |
4 | This year the omens are better and tourist officials will be disappointed if the figure is not back to its former glory by the end of it . |
5 | Especially interesting was the garden of Upton Grey where the new owners are bringing Gertrude Jekyll 's original design back to its former glory . |
6 | A friend said last night : ‘ It will cost a fortune to get this car back to its former glory . |
7 | ‘ However , in deference to public opinion , the developers have decided to see if it would be at all possible to have the building renovated and brought back to its former glory . |
8 | Shorter term cost cutting measures by P-E resulted in the disposal of Marketing Quality Assurance Ltd through a management buyout ; Marketing Intraface , which was closed down ; and Applied Skills for Management Ltd , which was sold back to its former owner . |
9 | Then , when the danger has passed , it starts to turn itself slowly back to its normal posture , beginning at the head end . |
10 | Well it was , I was just trying to persuade it back to its normal cage when the , like , everywhere . |
11 | Once we 're out of the twenty six week period it would go back to its normal rate . |
12 | 111 trying to get back to its Norwegian base after an unsuccessful attack on the flying-boat base farther down the firth . |
13 | Unemployment in the UK peaked at 17 per cent in 1932 but had fallen back to its 1920s level of 8 per cent by 1937 . |
14 | A post-Budget survey shows business confidence is back to its highest level since the fourth quarter of 1989 , but another , based on the views of London-based accountants , said there was no positive signs of an upturn and warns of more redundancies in the profession . |
15 | Restaurants , antique and craft shops can be found in and around the township and in addition to the Castle currently undergoing environmental works , visitors are intrigued by the thriving ancient Corporation with its Portreeve , Jury and Common Attorney etc. which retains with pride local customs dating back to its 13th Century Charter . |
16 | Within this tradition , the argument has been that Simmel 's The Philosophy of Money provides an important critique of alienation , which , unfortunately , the author perceived as a condition of modernity itself instead of a specific attribute of capitalism ; but , once his philosophy is directed back to its proper object , there is much to be learnt from his examples . |
17 | A There is no need to have your hair cut short to get rid of the bleached highlights before you have your hair coloured back to its natural shade . |
18 | But , the real advantage of a boilie is that it is so tough ( the carp do not know it is soft on the inside ) that a carp takes the bait by sucking it straight back to its pharyngeal teeth in its throat . |
19 | " The exhibitors thought they just wanted a big shed , " Bizat phlegmatically recalls , " and their view was " all we want people to see is our stands , we do n't want them looking anywhere else " , so they disliked the idea ofa setting that was attractive in itself But the then architect , Dr Peter Smith , wanted to bring the Palace back to its previous glory . |
20 | The transplanted kidney too shrank back to its previous size . |
21 | Over the last 4–5 years there has been a considerable amount of activity in the colony due to the expiry of the lease in 1997 when the land on which the colony has been built reverts back to its previous owner the Republic of China . |
22 | America is a stolen country , and I want to help give some of it back to its rightful owners ’ |
23 | Will the chairman of the Tory party send that money back to its rightful owners , bearing in mind the fact that the Labour party has agreed to send back Maxwell 's money , if it is found to have had any connection with the Mirror group pension fund ? |
24 | The Campbell dug out the bogus grenade and handed it back to its rightful owner . |
25 | On I Crush Bozo and My Skin Covers My Body , Happy Flowers take hardcore back to its primal matrix of unrequited desire and disproportionate rage : infancy 's uncontrolled appetites for oral and anal gratification , its delusions of omnipotence , its terror of the breakdown of the borderline between identity and the primal abjection out of which it 's formed . |
26 | However , by 18,00 hrs. that evening Bury Bolton Street was back to its own self and its late 1950s style , at least in its furniture , colour schemes and the two neat rakes of BR Mk. 1 coaches stabled on Platform Two — one in 1951 ‘ Blood & Custard ’ and the other in 1956 maroon . |
27 | Some had chased the German two-seater all the way back to its own territory , furious at this interference by the military in their air war . |
28 | It almost ran back to its own truck and started speaking into another telephone . |
29 | However , the name is n't very new it is reverting back to its old name , The Causeway . |
30 | After the fire Altovar Limited moved back to its old premises . |