Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pn reflx] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cherry and Whites tried to pull themselves back into the game … they huffed and puffed but could n't blow the Scottish down … and defeat means the rugby world are wondering whether Gloucester are as strong as they were … club coach keith richardson knows the truth |
| 2 | Thank goodness your boss has turned himself back into a wardrobe … |
| 3 | As I came into the hotel I tried to project myself back into a time when I 'd have been thinking — Sunday press party , rather fun . |
| 4 | She tried to think herself back into the part of Peter 's fiancée . |
| 5 | His injury is now completely cured and , after an early season rocket from Loftus Road manager Gerry Francis , he has put himself back on the trail to match last term 's 24-goal haul . |
| 6 | However , Liverpool began to pull themselves back into the game , and in the 68th minute Bobby Mimms had to push Ian Rush 's close-range header off the line . |
| 7 | Unable to pass through the flame , he managed to cast himself back onto the side of the platform he had entered from . |
| 8 | That 's the only thing I use to think myself back into the past . ’ |
| 9 | Nuadu could see that her fingers were gone now , and that she was trying to pull herself back into the heartwood , which would have been her dwelling and the place from which she drew sustenance and vitality , but the Robemaker made another of his sudden curt gestures and the slaves fell to their work again , sweat streaming from their half-clad bodies and Nuadu saw the heartwood splinter and fall apart . |
| 10 | He had squeezed himself back into the side-car with his long legs stretched flat along the floor of the rectangular alloy box . |
| 11 | He drank too much and was usually overweight but , to his credit , had dragged himself back into the top thirty on the circuit in the last couple of years . |
| 12 | Pascal 's target here is Descartes and , in trying to think oneself back into the overwhelming urgency of their debate , it has to be remembered that their lives were overshadowed by the struggles of the Counter-Reformation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We have to think ourselves back into a social system and culture very different from our own if we are to respond , in the way P. C. Wren required , to the improbable events and exalted sentiments of the three Geste brothers who , to serve their adored aunt and their fraternal obligations , vanished into the Foreign Legion , taking upon themselves the imputation of having stolen the blue diamond which she had long ago sold and replaced by a fake for the sake of her extravagant husband . |