Example sentences of "back to [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 She then immediately switches back to Creole to " link up " with the first part of her turn .
2 He outlined the long connections of the New River Head site back to early in the 17th century when what was probably the first privatised water company was established by James I ( VI of Scotland ) .
3 He had always said that Rose Lacson , the woman he met in one of Manila 's finest hotels and brought back to live in a mansion that she designed , would inherit his iron-ore wealth .
4 Although its larger successor , the GLC , changed hands regularly — from Labour in 1973 to Conservative in 1977 and back to Labour in 1981 — London remains the strongest source of Labour support in the South-East of the country .
5 He said too : ‘ I shall see if we may not go back to Nice in the autumn , or Austria or Switzerland .
6 In fact her sight was not back to normal for three months .
7 ‘ As I was saying , Superintendent , ’ he said , spinning back to Blanche , ‘ I really do understand your problems but we do have to get back to normal at some stage .
8 Blackburn are in a purple patch ( well , shearer is really ) , and will get back to normal at some point — we will always catch them .
9 Life is back to normal at Kingsmeadow school following the accident earlier this month .
10 However , despite claims by Mr Hawke and Sir Peter Abeles , Ansett 's joint managing director and a close friend of Mr Hawke , that air services would be back to normal by next month , there is no sign of this happening .
11 Most of us are back to normal by Tuesday , however , because we can advance our body clock , even if with some difficulty .
12 And if a set goes wrong later , a service engineer can bring the picture back to normal by plugging in a computer handset which re-adjusts the circuits in the same way .
13 This seems more likely than that everything will be back to normal by this autumn , as the government claims .
14 Train services expected to be back to normal by rushhour .
15 It took until mid-afternoon for the rail network to get back to normal by which time London businesses were reckoned to have lost £8.6m .
16 Owing to a bizarre mix-up between a Japanese morse operator in the South China Sea , and new early closing times at Whaddon Post Office , when football finally got back to normal in 1946 , Athletico , now fielding eleven internationals , found themselves in the Mid-Counties Combination instead of the higher Mid-Counties South-West League ( Northern Division ) .
17 He got back to normal in no time .
18 Eat slightly less and exercise a little more ; aim to bring it back to normal within a week or two .
19 However , our carriers assure us that their services will be back to normal within a fortnight .
20 Most of the problems will clear up in a couple of days , and your muscles will be back to normal within three to four weeks .
21 She looked like Kirsty when I first went off to Bengal — ‘ Menzies stopped , his own eyes watering , while Cameron let his temper sink back to normal after the gratuitous alarm .
22 A bomb blew up the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank building and the nearby NatWest tower on April 24th , just as life in London 's financial centre was getting back to normal after a similar episode in April 1992 .
23 Then gradually raise the temperature from the normal 78–80°s ; F to about 85°s ; F. This temperature should be gradually reduced back to normal after spawning .
24 He will remember how long it took you to get back to normal after your caesarean , and the distress you both felt when Carl was so small .
25 Meanwhile , Llandundo put on a brave face yesterday and struggled to get back to normal after last week 's devastating floods .
26 It still needed a fine catch from Crowe , who hared back to wide mid-on and sprawled towards the boundary .
27 At home , England have been unbeaten in a Test series since that 1989 summer , beating New Zealand and India and manfully fighting back to level with West Indies last summer at 2–2 .
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