Example sentences of "[vb pp] back into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if several mouse embryos are pushed together so that they fuse and this large mass transferred back into a mother a normal mouse will still develop . |
| 2 | As she responded , he increased the pressure of his lips on hers until she realised what he was trying to do , and slowly allowed herself to be pushed back into a lying position . |
| 3 | Soon the greater numbers of the Chaos force began to tell , and Magnus 's army was gradually pushed back into a defensive circle . |
| 4 | However , if they are applied in a legalistic or academic manner it is only too easy for the best interests of air safety to be pushed back into a position of secondary importance . |
| 5 | The restaurant has been turned back into a house — little expense spared and the quality of work by the local joiner is superb , no other word for it . |
| 6 | YOU MAY sneer — God knows , my upper lip has been twitching like the pelvis of Elvis throughout this re-birth — but it is odd how bands can trundle on for decades , blithely ignored , while Madness were thrust back into a critical firing line . |
| 7 | Entering it he could imagine her sitting there in the summer days and evenings , working on the papers which she occasionally contributed to ornithological journals and looking up from time to time to gaze out over the headland to the sea and the far horizon , could see again that carved , weather-browned Aztec face with its hooded eyes under the grey-black hair , drawn back into a bun , could hear again a voice which , for him , had been one of the most beautiful female voices he had ever heard . |
| 8 | Then she noticed a vast woman with a swarthy dead-pan face and black hair drawn back into a bun , who was standing near the O'Briens with grimly folded arms . |
| 9 | Rostov saw that his hair had been drawn back into a neat queue which had been tied with ribbon then folded decoratively forward across the top of his head . |
| 10 | With the plaintiff 's cooperation and the assistance of care , they have seen to it that the plaintiff was not to be institutionalised and that she was to be brought back into a loving home and encouraged to be the thinking , intelligent and lively person she still is . |
| 11 | In her latest novel , Jazz , Toni Morrison has dipped back into a time before cross-over , when African-American music was all-black , in her quest for a uniquely black literary language . |
| 12 | We have simultaneously slipped back into a compromising embrace with the very form of instrumental utilitarianism which got the world into such a mess in the first place : that things are of value because they are of value to us , not because they are of value in themselves . |
| 13 | Black hair was pulled back into a bun , hausfrau-style . |
| 14 | Dressed in intriguingly pinkish-blue Levi 501s ( ‘ I put them in the washing machine with a pink sweatshirt ’ ) and a lemon coloured blouse , her hair 's pulled back into a simple ponytail . |
| 15 | Huge waves have been swept back into a movie star style . |
| 16 | The signal is converted back into an analogue waveform just before it is fed to the picture tube and loudspeakers . |
| 17 | Drainpipe trousers and fluorescent socks , drape jacket , bootlace tie and hair carefully greased back into a DA style — the Teddy Boy certainly livened up the Fifties . |
| 18 | She was small and dark , with her hair scraped back into a bun . |
| 19 | Naturally curly or permed hair can be scraped back into a formal look or left casual for the evenings |
| 20 | Her hair was scraped back into a bun . |
| 21 | This was something that Picasso had also conveyed in the necks of the Horta figures , where the area between the projecting tendons appears to have been cut back into a deep recess . |
| 22 | I felt I had stepped back into a thirties ' film and that in the morning , when we went down into the bar for café au lait , Arletty and Jean Gabin would be leaning on the zinc counter . |
| 23 | Bewildered , she felt as if she 'd stepped back into a dark cave and was falling into the unknown . |
| 24 | Fergus had gone back into a deep sleep . |
| 25 | She had swayed back into an upright position and reverted to a tone of easy confidence . |
| 26 | They were up and ready for inspection , with the tent down and folded back into a small square by six thirty . |
| 27 | In fishing this literally means that the catching sector has been forced back into a more primitive , earlier phase . |
| 28 | Malcolm Dalkin of LV Motors , who produce the Aerogen wind generator range , maintains that if a tiny trickle charge is put back into a yacht 's batteries it will both maintain their performance and could increase their lifespan by two or three years . |
| 29 | Slowly but inevitably they had drifted back into a loving relationship , culminating three months ago in their engagement . |
| 30 | Meh'Lindi had darted back into a service tunnel and was decamping as fast as could be , cradling Grimm who was wailing like a baby . |