Example sentences of "to get back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Payne says the ambition now is to get back into the first division |
| 2 | ‘ My priority had always been to get back into the Irish side , and I was never prepared to look any further than that . |
| 3 | Now you 've been patched up , your hull 's been scraped , a lick of paint and you 're ready to get back into the great sea of life . |
| 4 | So the offer to get back into the front line ( plus a not inconsiderable cheque from another rich Spanish sponsor ) was enough for Carruthers to switch camps . |
| 5 | There was no time to get back into the right position , take a breath and gently squeeze the trigger ; it was up and bang , and with my whole body unbalanced and both hands on the gun I fell forward , rolling as I did so to keep the gun out the sand . |
| 6 | Beginning their new season in the third division of the Paisley & District League , the Stoddard Carpets football team are fighting to get back into the second division where they were last year . |
| 7 | It always took some time after her departure to get back into the old routine again … into the old pleasant routine . |
| 8 | That would be the end of any engagements elsewhere , just when he was beginning to get back on the international circuit . |
| 9 | But it 's nice to get back on the right tracks and now we have to keep it up against Stockport on Tuesday . |
| 10 | The estranged wife of the Marquis of Blandford says he 's making a real effort to get back on the straight and narrow . |
| 11 | STUART RIPLEY could hardly wait to get back on the Ayresome Park pitch but , once there , was glad to get off again , writes David Alexander . |
| 12 | Neil Graham has always held a high position of Gold Blade , who will be backed to get back on the winning trail in the Conquest Cup . |
| 13 | ‘ It is important for everyone to roll up their sleeves and fight to get back on the winning trail . ’ |
| 14 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 15 | I have the impression that consumers would quite like to get back to the good old days when they used to spend money occasionally , ’ concluded Ainslie Tim . |
| 16 | It will give us the lift we need to get back to the Premier League . ’ |
| 17 | I think I 'll be happier to get back to the traditional gold and yellows and browns on wallflowers . |
| 18 | Anyway , we need to get back to the other world . ’ |
| 19 | Meantime , the Irish stay sober to win professionally , but their club amateurs ca n't wait to get back to the 19th hole . |
| 20 | So to get back to the serious matter Mr Mayor if I may . |
| 21 | Double-click on a blank area of the screen , then select the tick to get back to the main menu . |
| 22 | And I do n't think everybody 's going around in eastern Europe thinking oh what we need is to get back to the old Stalinist system where you , you know , you had someone telling you what to do all the time . |
| 23 | He rasped , ‘ Are n't you longing to get back to the bright lights ? ’ |
| 24 | But what happens when you grow tired of it , Aurora — what happens when the novelty fades and you find yourself longing to get back to the bright lights of show business ? |
| 25 | Lacan wished to get back to the original subversive spirit of Freud 's writings , which had been simplified or distorted by their vulgar popular currency , and by the professionalism of psychoanalysis . |
| 26 | To go to bed , we take off our shoes , then our socks to get back to the original state of bare feet . |
| 27 | I was excitedly interested in her attempt to get back to the original Gautama , instead of the stereotyped figure of the Scriptures and Buddhist tradition , and still more thrilled by her insistence that the Buddha had a gospel , good news to the people of his contemporary India and to later generations . |
| 28 | A second factor which I 'd like to raise , and please stop me , sir , if I 'm not playing your ground rules here , is to get back to the original point made by Mr Davis , as to how this figure is going to be split between the districts , I think it 's absolutely essential that this figure is split between the districts , and it may well be , if you decide , sir , to recommend in favour of the new settlement that you may have to leave that as a floating figure to go around the districts , at the moment it is not . |
| 29 | So in order to get back to the medieval level , we took it back down to there and we caused the to slope . |
| 30 | This one hobbled about gamely , seemingly eager to get back to the open plains . |