Example sentences of "back to [art] [adj] " 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 | The English figure climbed briefly to 9 per cent in the mid-nineteenth century and then fell back to a mere 1 per cent today . |
| 8 | Eastern winds have brought what had been fair sport back to a normal level for the time of year . |
| 9 | However , healthy skin rebounds back to a normal pH of 4.5 in about 10–15 minutes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The indicator light above the visor edged back to a normal reading . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | With the help of counsellors , residents here prepare to go back to a normal life … without drink . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The children being sent back to a violent father . |
| 16 | All this led Barth back to a closer reading of the Bible , and especially of Paul . |
| 17 | Carry out deadheading often , combining with light pruning where appropriate by cutting back to a strong bud well down the stem . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | You may also be able to refer back to a recent rise in merit pay or bonus in your response . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | According to the suit , she initiated a ‘ vicious cycle of regressing this young man back to a three-year-old child ’ . |
| 22 | Once the condition clears up , switch back to a mild shampoo . |
| 23 | One precious CERAMIDE capsule and your skin is on its way back to a smoother , silkier , younger appearance . |
| 24 | Drove back to a late dinner . |
| 25 | I was a late and I changed to an early and back to a late . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | Two of his comrades had relatively minor head wounds and received first aid in the trench before heading back to a safer area . |
| 30 | 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 " . |