Example sentences of "[adv] back to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 As things turned out , it was probably just as well that I was brought gently back to earth by Beryl , who from one of the Trust 's head offices masterminds the working holidays with military precision , advised me that the only available option was a 21-plus Acorn Project at Clumber park in Nottinghamshire .
2 Each of them had the chance to take the controls and fly the glider 8010 — just for a while , before the pilot brought the plane gently back to earth .
3 All I want to see you better back to school and back to your fitness again .
4 Except it was different this time , Jessamy reminded herself as she pulled herself slowly and painfully back to reality .
5 So we 've been starting on the , but this is a bit of a shame though because , what I like , when we , when we , when we have our three days off , it 's nice to know on your , on your last day off that still have a late night because your not back to work until the afternoon you know .
6 And just back to football , the South Midland premier division ; Thame United retain their lead at the top of the table with a narrow but in the end , comfortable victory at Langford this afternoon .
7 Anyway back to work .
8 By the same token , however , they may now be tacking fitfully back to growth while Germany and , to a lesser extent Japan , linger in relative doldrums .
9 They flew out fast , located the target with the aid of their radar equipment , dropped their coloured indicators to show the heavy boys where to go , and then nipped smartly back to base .
10 There was an expression on his face that she could n't quite fathom , so she brought the conversation smartly back to business .
11 On an impulse he reversed the Jaguar and drove quickly back to Martyr 's Cottage .
12 As we dozed off , we heard the sound of approaching footsteps and voices , which jerked us quickly back to life .
13 There was a curious magnetism about him that , for one brief moment , caused her heart to miss a beat , but a blast on the horn of an impatient motorist behind her brought her quickly back to reality .
14 She looked as if she wanted to go back in but her mum kissed her goodbye and shut the door flat in her face and went off back to bed .
15 We packed up all our kit again and set off back to Orange , across the frozen landscape of southern France , which was having one of the coldest winters in living memory .
16 If — and it was a megalithic if , but I supposed we should consider every possible option now we were at it — if , in some weird way the Ghost and her voice really did exist , then as soon as she 'd got over her disappointment , she would have to admit she 'd been defeated fair and square , and would just have to honour the deal and flit off back to heaven or wherever it was she lived now .
17 Only to wake up back to reality with a small , secret smile on her lips .
18 And the baby converts it straight back to blubber .
19 he went straight back to work
20 Dana felt so sick , he went straight back to bed , but had been there only a few seconds before he leapt out with a scream of agony : an autumnal , sleepy wasp had been brought in by the chambermaid among the bedclothes which had been airing at the window and had stung my friend on the bottom !
21 No , well mostly toilet in the middle of the night but I go straight back to bed and go back to sleep again .
22 These wishes go straight back to childhood , and so religion represents a transference from childhood and a kind of emotional infantilism in which people try and make out that they 're still children , as it were , even though they , even though they really are n't .
23 There is not much other evidence for any kind of standing army : the classic historians of the fifth century speak of the Ten Thousand ‘ Immortals ’ , but that word is now thought to be a mistranslation of an Old Persian word meaning ‘ followers ’ , which takes one straight back to feudalism .
24 Skippety-hop , straight back to trauma land and the mangrove swamps of misery . ’
25 The old man 's voice cut through his sexual heat , brought him straight back to earth .
26 At which point she 'd stand , lay the magazine aside , and get straight back to business .
27 ‘ You 'll go right back to school on Monday morning and finish Grade 12 .
28 This is partly because structuralist poetics are part of a wider semiological venture , and partly because any distinctiveness ascribed to literature in structuralist thinking takes it right back to linguistics ; for the element that constitutes ‘ literature 's Being ’ and its ‘ very world ’ ( Barthes 1970 ) is simply language itself .
29 They have been around for a very long time , as I said , dating right back to Model Book 35 in fact , which appeared in 1982 .
30 ‘ So you 'll be right back to nature , and let us hope that the natives are friendly . ’
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