Example sentences of "turn [art] [noun sg] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereign was king of coins . |
| 2 | Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereign was king of coins . |
| 3 | Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereigns were king coins . |
| 4 | A digital to analogue ( D–A ) converter then turns the signal back into its original form . |
| 5 | He had called for Doyle , and Doyle had turned the clock back , and come to make the arrest in person . |
| 6 | He provides the influence they needed and , together with the best centre-back combination in England , Steve Bould and Tony Adams , the Dane 's strength has turned the clock back to the season when Arsenal last won the title through defensive ability . |
| 7 | He had some memory of having promised God to give up drinking but God had n't turned the clock back so that did n't count any more . |
| 8 | So perhaps God had turned the clock back in a very God-like way . |
| 9 | A film company has turned the clock back one hundred years to recreate a bustling Victorian dock scene . |
| 10 | A farmer has turned the clock back fifty years to harvest his crop of wheat . |
| 11 | But now British Rail has turned the clock back — temporarily offering steam rides from Henley-on-Thames . |
| 12 | Has someone turned the clock back 100 years and forgotten to tell me ? |
| 13 | It has but I 've turned the stat back up on the cylinder just made the boiler cut in again cos that 's that 's why the boilers cutting out cos it what it does once it gets up to temperature then it 'll shut itself off . |
| 14 | I turned the cab back , deciding to breakfast somewhere and wait until I could speak to Miss Grey … |
| 15 | Benjamin nodded and quietly turned the conversation back to horseflesh . |
| 16 | He turned the clock back to 1926 in his south Armagh centre hostelry , and sold drinks at pre-war prices — pints fivepence , and shorts threepence — for a whole afternoon ! |
| 17 | He turned the canoe back in , using the full power of those arms to bring them rapidly towards shore . |
| 18 | He turned the knob back to pop music , turned the volume down to almost nothing , began talking to Evelyn . |
| 19 | He extracted Catherine a short while later and turned the car back on the darkened road which would lead them towards the A1 . |
| 20 | He has closed the greenhouses and turned the spotlight back to fisheries . |
| 21 | ‘ It was like turning the clock back to Imperial Tobacco in many ways — it was even sleepier from an internal control point of view — but to be fair , that was why I was hired . ’ |
| 22 | Once in power , she immediately set about turning the clock back to 1529 by returning England to papal jurisdiction , restoring Catholic forms of worship , and reintroducing the old heresy laws . |
| 23 | To understand the problems of font clashes it is worth turning the clock back to the very first Macintosh system . |
| 24 | Turning the clock back to the point immediately before computers got involved in the publishing business there were only two real technologies at work ; hot metal and cold metal . |
| 25 | Was n't this turning the clock back to the days of the old non-advanced courses ? |
| 26 | It was almost like turning the clock back a couple of centuries . |
| 27 | But , as Ronnie Convery found out , within the Church itself he 's under fire from some liberal Catholics who say he 's turning the clock back . |
| 28 | We 're turning the clock back nearly four years to give Town a boost for this one . |
| 29 | The Broadisland Gathering is turning the clock back to the early 1600s when the area was settled by Scots Lowlanders . |
| 30 | Turning the attack back on Doyle was a way of defending her — and of putting off the moment when he had to answer the question himself . |