Example sentences of "be [vb pp] back into " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am plunged back into robust adventures with my sturdy sea-horse . |
| 2 | The Socialists have been plunged back into gloom . |
| 3 | The old control tower has been pressed back into service , but this time using mobile equipment . |
| 4 | Whatever evidence the IAAF officials discovered in the laboratory , one only needed to look at recent pictures of Johnson , in which he resembled an inflated balloon , to guess that his improved times showed he 'd been sucked back into the drug culture . |
| 5 | Then in winter the wicker table and chairs are moved back into the house , to be replaced by an old formica kitchen table . |
| 6 | The other man was in no particular rush to be anywhere , being newly-divorced and having been thrust back into bedsit-land alone and at the age of forty-two , but out of a range of possibilities the prospect of hanging around on a station platform with Joe Lucas had to rank among the lowest . |
| 7 | Perhaps the most extraordinary moment in the story is when the Butterfly appears and ali the butterflies in the world , in a great swarm , are absorbed back into his essence . |
| 8 | The Vietnamese have finally got control of their own country after forty years of war ; defeated the Japs , the French , us , and the most powerful nation in the history of the planet in succession , with bicycles , guns and guts , been bombed back into the bronze age in the process and all you can do is spout some tired nonsense about little yellow men infiltrating the steaming jungles of the Nullarbor Plain and turning the Aussies into Commies ; I think a Highland League side winning the European Cup is marginally more likely . ’ |
| 9 | Since the much-welcomed United Agreement , signed in 1987 between Robert Mugabe 's ZANU and Joshua Nkomo 's ZAPU , the atmosphere in hard-pressed Matabeleland has been peaceful , and the South African-backed MNR ( Mozambique National Resistance ) have been pushed back into Mozambique . |
| 10 | A few Bronze Age artifacts were turned up in the dark soil , but they had meant nothing to those who had seen them , and they had been turned back into the earth . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It meant he had finally been accepted back into the Royal fold after being stripped of his OBE when he was jailed for tax evasion . |
| 13 | Once all the useful substances have been absorbed back into the tree , the end of the leaf stalk is closed off and the leaf dies and falls . |
| 14 | Like the woman said there , there seems to be a lot of help for people who are on drugs , and who then want to come off them , but the after-care service seems to be you know , a lot erm , there 's not a lot help for the people , they get the help to come off the drugs and then they 're put back into the society that they are from and they seem to still have that pressure to go back to where they were previously . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Our ferry port which opened in nineteen seventy six is now the second largest ferry port on the south coast and it is city-owned yielding profit they are reinvested back into our city . |
| 17 | Of the dozens of ailing firms that the Socialists took under their wing in the 1980s , rather than let them die , almost all have been sold back into private hands or wound up . |
| 18 | till I am smothered back into the stone |
| 19 | But in September Ninety Ninety two of these the pins had n't been locked back into place . |
| 20 | Of course , there might be other forms of intelligent life , not dreamed of even by writers of science fiction , that did not require the light of a star like the sun or the heavier chemical elements that are made in stars and are flung back into space when the stars explode . |
| 21 | There , without ceremony and possibility of reprieve , an average of 50 men and women , the day 's catch of illegal immigrants , are bundled back into China . |
| 22 | There , without ceremony and possibility of reprieve , an average of 50 men and women , the day 's catch of illegal immigrants , are bundled back into China . |
| 23 | The troglodytic Soviets have been driven back into their frozen potholes : the camp doctor steadies his monocle and reaches for his mustiest text-book . |
| 24 | Xerox 's Documenter , essentially a single 6085 workstation running ViewPoint with a dedicated page printer , has recently been brought back into the fold through the introduction of a low-cost local area network . |
| 25 | Most are brought back into line by their parents and made to organize their lives around achievable objectives , to persevere at the more mundane , sometimes uninteresting but attainable positions in society . |
| 26 | In addition to banning , delaying or censoring news and current affairs reports ( ibid. ) , the British government and military officials have used a variety of sanctions , notably cutting journalists off from authoritative sources of information , to ensure that recalcitrant individuals and institutions are brought back into line ( Aleut , 1978:153 ) . |
| 27 | Furthermore , if documents of transfer for certain assets are executed outside the United Kingdom stamp duty will not be payable until the documents are brought back into the United Kingdom . |
| 28 | The origins of this transformation may be traced back into the late 19th century but the upheaval finally came at the time of Vietnam , flower-power and the campus revolutions . |
| 29 | The first point to be made about recent rural population change is that the broad spatial processes of the 1970s and early 1980s can be traced back into not only the 1960s , but even the 1950s ( Compton , 1983 ) . |
| 30 | In December 1970 it received a coat of standard blue paint only to be repainted back into two tone green recently by the dedicated staff at Immingham depot . |