Example sentences of "turning back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1	Suddenly , after a century of realism and what Rice calls ‘ little Protestant novels ’ , the tide is turning back towards the fantastical , towards ‘ magic , the extreme and the eccentric ’ .
2	Then , turning back to the two boys , she added .
3	Most were turning back to the western shore , to life but certain capture .
4	Rather , it is the case that people with a fairly strong religious tradition may react to crises by turning back to the traditional patterns of belief which not only made sense of their individual predicaments but which also created a strong sense of communal solidarity .
5	No-one can deny that being pretty helps — no female on breakfast television would have a career otherwise — but I can not believe that we are turning back to the dark days when it was deemed the most important thing of all .
6	Then , turning back to the offending beetle , he said slowly and deliberately , ‘ I take it you 've got three legs on each side of your body .
7	Turning back to the earlier extract which I have quoted , I note that Megaw L.J .
8	‘ Goodnight , ’ she said , disappointed , turning back to the empty bar .
9	Turning back to the local rag he learned that the police had as yet no clue to the identity of the woman whose body had been fished out of the canal .
10	Turning back to the storm-rinsed windows and the dangerous electrical crackle of Darkfall lightning on the glass , he popped the pill and watched the water running down the glass in ever-increasing and mysterious rivulets .
11	Unable to accept again the superstitions he had discarded , nevertheless with time and misfortune he found himself turning back to the three deities who had guided his early life , and helped him through his harsh apprenticeship as a scribe : the reasonable Thoth , ibis-headed , god of the scribes ; Horus , son of Osiris ; and the protector of the hearth , Bes — the little god of his childhood .

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