Example sentences of "back to being " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had become my friends and there was no way that I would now go back to being their problem dependant . |
| 2 | So , after a month with two guitarists , we were back to being what we started out to be , a four-piece . |
| 3 | Once you get accustomed to life on the range , it 's hard to go back to being a city slicker . |
| 4 | Tonight she would have been quite willing to let him do anything he wanted just as long as things would go back to being the way they had been . |
| 5 | That 's what it basically is , and whenever it gets too slick or too planned , we stop , in complete mid-stream if necessary , and just go back to being more primitive . |
| 6 | Suddenly you detect a reassuring scent which takes you back to being a baby safe in your mother 's arms . |
| 7 | Back to being Queenie , R5868 on the gate at Scampton in July 1971 , shortly before removal to Bicester for restoration . |
| 8 | ‘ I will not give up comedy completely , but I will never go back to being a stand-up comic again . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , he decided that he 'd had enough and wanted to go back to being a teacher . ’ |
| 10 | That machine has now gone back to being called the Model 54 and will appear as a 45MHz TAB-packaged four-way , as it was meant to at one time . |
| 11 | That machine has now gone back to being called the Model 54 and will appear as a 45MHz TAB-packaged four-way , as had already been intended at one time . |
| 12 | At this he seemed to liven up , and went back to being Oliver . |
| 13 | Their small mission accomplished , Tennyson and Hallam sank back to being tourists , and Tennyson never forgot the scenery around Cauterets , which he associated for the rest of his long life with the happiness he had felt when travelling there with the beloved but now dead Hallam . |
| 14 | I 'm unemployed at the moment , but I could never go back to being a bricklayer . |
| 15 | Could n't they reconstruct themselves and go back to being pigs ? |
| 16 | Could n't they unreconstruct themselves and go back to being pigs ? |
| 17 | I am aware , when I go on publicity tours , that the necessity to project yourself , to sell your product , all the time , moves you into the outward and trivial parts of your personality , and it takes some time to get back to being centred , and to finding who you are again within yourself . ’ |
| 18 | He 's got very he 's very sensitive cells in his nose because , cos a dog used to be a hunting dog , and goes back to being a wolf , they used to track their prey to eat so they 've still got that ability and we have n't , but a dog has , it can smell . |
| 19 | He could not get work and eventually went back to being an electrician in a colliery . |
| 20 | In the weeks that followed she was besieged , chased , persuaded , listened to and written about , and when the Daily Mail had finished its serial she went back to being whatever she was before . |
| 21 | ‘ If I came back and trained and lived here again I would probably go back to being the blue-eyed boy . |
| 22 | If he had taken her here on the couch a few minutes ago , as he had so nearly done , their abandonment to passion then would have been a mutual — equal — thing , but now he was back to being the dominant partner in what remained of their relationship , controlling it and her . |
| 23 | In 1965 Lloyd went back to being Student 's editor , and Jim Haynes headed south to set up the London Traverse Company at the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre in Holborn . |
| 24 | ‘ Please say that you will agree , will at least let me try to earn my own living , find out if I am strong enough to do so — not go back to being useless , merely a symbol of Papa 's wealth , not really his or your daughter . ’ |
| 25 | Now was n't it er Matthew Paris when he was still an M P , he 's journalist but Gone back to being a journalist now . |
| 26 | He kept telling him to go back to being a serious actor . |
| 27 | There are times we dream you back to being |
| 28 | I can do it myself and you can go back to being the Direktor of the company instead of my protector . |
| 29 | O K then that 's right , you go and sit down , get yourself together again , and get back to being able to cope with life . |
| 30 | I 'm now , I 'm not retiring , I 'm just going back to being part of a member from my Hampshire Council of Community Service , and I shall be writing , of course , very rude letter , if the services and the communications of letters do n't come up to standards . |