Example sentences of "[pron] back to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , jealousy is futile , but so often we can not rid ourselves of its components and reason ourselves back to a state of equilibrium . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As as I said we 're we 're not very formal but er you know that also has its especially if people that er maybe erm , how can I put it , are not used t taking everything back to a meeting and you know they maybe make a decision and go ahead with it and then it gets shouted at a bit but I think we we can all take being shouted at a bit as well . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ This will help to redress the balance and bring them back to a positive situation . |
| 7 | In many cases , one may trace them back to a very ancient past , though often the present-day festivals — surviving in the face of what is euphemistically called ‘ progress ’ — retain only a vestige of their former meaning and complexity . |
| 8 | That is often the spur which gets them back to a proper relationship with the almighty car . |
| 9 | Reading the submission of the Ulster Unionist party brought me back to a comment made by the right hon. Member for Lagan Valley ( Mr. Molyneaux ) , the leader of the Ulster Unionist party , during the first sitting of the Northern Ireland Committee on 13 June . |
| 10 | Despite great pressure to allow a rescue plan to airlift him back to a natural habitat in cold Arctic waters , the Turkish authorities decided to let Russian experts take charge of him . |
| 11 | A few hundred yards along the road , however , and the walking pace jolted him back to a more careful reckoning of the conversation . |
| 12 | Suddenly he was crying too , deep racking sobs that took him back to a night long ago , soon after his father was killed . |
| 13 | From then on she taught herself always to sit sideways or with her back to a person . ’ |
| 14 | And set it back to a , to a Panasonic K X P Eleven Twenty Four , which will be on the list . |
| 15 | This brings us back to a central theme of Sport and the British : the extraordinary degree to which it has been promoted privately without politicians , employers , or trade unionists taking a significant part except as enthusiastic individual sportsmen . |
| 16 | Like locust swarms we will experience a vast population crash at some point , one that will drag us back to a more natural level . |
| 17 | The word ‘ humanity ’ borrowed some of its force from the 1959 approach , but the rest of the definition would have taken us back to a test of manners based on an assumption of consensus which is at worst suspect and at best unproven , but which is to be measured only by outrage , surely an irrational and wholly subjective response . |
| 18 | This brings us back to a relativist position . |
| 19 | Even sad films took us back to a world that we understood , a world where people lived their lives , hoping for happiness and sometimes even finding it . |
| 20 | One suspects that , rather than deconstructing the process of voyeurism — ‘ the gaze ’ — they succeed very much in the way a faded Edwardian photograph succeeds , transporting us back to a specific moment in time , fixed in the honeyed glow of nostalgia ; their presence is reassuring rather than unsettling . |
| 21 | The attempt to answer this question leads us into a hitherto little-explored region of English grammar since it poses the problem of the relation between the infinitive and the category of person , and takes us back to a use not yet analysed satisfactorily , the so-called " infinitive of reaction " . |