Example sentences of "back [prep] being [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Flaubert is writer of rare merit , — he replied , using Gustave 's family name in a manner that shocked me , ‘ but he is held back from being a genius by ill health . ’ |
| 2 | Come back to being a vet . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , he decided that he 'd had enough and wanted to go back to being a teacher . ’ |
| 4 | Suddenly you detect a reassuring scent which takes you back to being a baby safe in your mother 's arms . |
| 5 | I 'm unemployed at the moment , but I could never go back to being a bricklayer . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Now if anyone asks if you feel for any sense that perhaps some of these routines have perhaps got a bit of become inappropriate in some way , perhaps because you 're teaching a different type of child , or perhaps because you 've got rather different educational aims , they 've changed for some reason , then it 's like asking someone to go back to being a novice again in some senses to change . |
| 8 | Oh yeah it 's gone back to being a leaflet it was a booklet last week . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Once you get accustomed to life on the range , it 's hard to go back to being a city slicker . |
| 11 | I can do it myself and you can go back to being the Direktor of the company instead of my protector . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He could not get work and eventually went back to being an electrician in a colliery . |