Example sentences of "back into the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exultation comes and goes , but here again for the while I suppose it has returned to me in preparation for that step back into the radiant arc of omnipotence which is only given on this earth to the narrator in or of a novel . |
| 2 | Her spoon dropped listlessly back into the dull porridge lake . |
| 3 | Among certain groups living in southern Africa the labia can be as long as seven inches and the owners of such equipment have to push the lips back into the vaginal opening in order to get on with their daily tasks . |
| 4 | By a supreme effort I managed to feed a few inches back into the vaginal opening but as soon as I relaxed it popped quietly out again . |
| 5 | In a run down on the style of deference he anticipates ( which I note will stifle any critical point from ‘ below decks ’ ) , he talks about his length of tenure and how long it will be before he can ‘ escape back into the real world ’ . |
| 6 | This shocked her suddenly , shook her back into the real world and changed the entire course of the interview . |
| 7 | However , the NUJ man managed to squeeze a month 's money out of the management and Jane crossed Blackfriars Bridge back into the real world in a thunderstorm but with a light heart , passing the inevitable drunk Irishman proclaiming to the heavens : ‘ Jasus , Mary and Joseph — a bludy hurricane ! ’ |
| 8 | Normally , financial troubles and scandals around money visit players late in their lives , when their playing days are over and they are rehabilitating themselves back into the real world . |
| 9 | Norbert was sent back into the real world , but within weeks he had registered as a disabled person and returned to the hospital . |
| 10 | An assertiveness training programme involves a number of stages : first , understanding the underlying principles of the approach ; second , recognizing different styles of communicating ( passive , aggressive , assertive ) , third , identifying specific situations where we would like to be more assertive , whether at work , in public , among friends , or at home ; fourth , to prepare , rehearse , or role play a different , more assertive response ; and fifth , to transfer that behaviour back into the real world . |
| 11 | To her it felt right to be there with David , her skin soft against his , her senses alive to his touch , and she succeeded in banishing her fears of what would happen when they stepped out of their circle of magic and back into the real world . |
| 12 | ‘ I was always hopeful that I would be able to fight my way back into the representative scene but that was the early chance I needed ’ , recalled Roebuck . |
| 13 | If Papandreou wishes to continue her righteous quest , she should go back into the smoke-filled rooms of the Bâtiment Berlaymont and re-package her proposals rationally . |
| 14 | It will not be easy to speed up the system by which mentally disordered people are moved through the courts , prisons , NHS hospitals , Special Hospitals and , eventually , back into the normal community . |
| 15 | There was always that about him — the Welsh chieftain down from the hills on a raid to seize the bounty of the fat rich oppressor and then ride home back into the trackless labyrinths of his past . |
| 16 | We wandered back into the freezing bailey . |
| 17 | As such , Hitler had become in a way the projection of national aspirations to greatness which reached back into the imperial ambitions of the Wilhelmine era , and which in added strength under Nazism had found an echo among much of the German population , not least as a compensation for a far greyer reality . |
| 18 | The material sprang back into the uneven creases that had been shaped by Maidstone 's nervous , insistent fingers . |
| 19 | So , somewhat in the footsteps of the pursuers of Colonel Fawcett , who disappeared many years ago into the jungles of South America , I set out after my man , who had slipped away , sadly and silently , back into the dark continent and seemingly into history . |
| 20 | Carey led Piper back into the other half of the room , but the old man seemed to have other things to do . |
| 21 | ‘ But not today , ’ she said finally , grabbed the bottle of wine and two glasses and walked back into the other room . |
| 22 | She smoothed her hair and straightened the shoulder-straps of her black camisole , then with an effort composed her face into an expression of detached amusement as she went back into the other room . |
| 23 | Just as we scrambled out of the ditch again , one of the woodchucks dropping his black rifle and barely managing to grab the sling as it slid back into the foul water , a straggler from the malai patrol crossed the road a hundred and fifty metres away , looked to his left and saw us . |
| 24 | In 1090 the lord of Montpellier exploited it even more successfully when he rose against his lord , the bishop of Maguelonne ; worried by William 's defection , the bishop bribed him back into the episcopal mouvance by extending his fief . |
| 25 | With c = 5.7 the flow is chaotic : the flow forms a single spiral embedded in a disc , with trajectories from the outer part of the spiral twisted , and folded back into the inner part of the spiral , forming a Mobius band . |
| 26 | The butler nodded and stepped back into the grand dining room , only to reappear almost immediately with the tall , thin figure of Michael Lee following him , his face impassive . |
| 27 | After getting back into the accurate turn as before , apply a very small amount of opposite rudder to create a slightly slipping turn and try the stall again . |
| 28 | Ross , on his return to Britain , went back into the new route business as an outsider to the establishment scene — a position I know only too well . |
| 29 | Has it gone further back into the primary schools ? |
| 30 | It is seven years since , at Zurich , I appealed to France to take Germany by the hand and lead her back into the European family . ’ |