How To Use Turn back In A Sentence
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Similarly, remove the Return button from the Main Edit JSP, since we will return back to the previous mode using the portal framework.
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The pilot tried to turn back but the jet exploded and a large fireball ripped into a crowded residential area.
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As I turn back towards home, my mobile phone beeps into life. A new year greeting sent from a different time zone, halfway across the world.
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The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers
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According to the map we missed our turn back there.
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But belike this duskiness will clear presently, and then at least we shall know whither we be going; and we may either turn back, or seek some other shelter, for I know the lake well; I know, I know.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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In this scene she is explaining to him the knife 's power: the ability to turn back time.
Times, Sunday Times
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I walk over to the speakerphone to shut it off and turn back to the canvas.
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After months spent retraining the army Baghdad must show that it can turn back the tide.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was half tempted to pick up a nearby acorn and chuck it at his head, in a feeble attempt to render him unconscious, thereby allowing myself to return back to my sleeping bag.
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We need to be on the down side of the glacial cycle, simple having more squirrels follow the ice line north is now a net loss because we want the ice line to start its return back south, otherwise the planet will smoulder.
The Saddest Sentence I've Read Today, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Police attempted to turn back protesters marching towards the offices of President Ershad.
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When not at combat readiness, the mailed knight would unfasten his ventail, throw back his coif, and turn back his mittens.
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If she could turn back time, she would love to live that moment a thousand times over.
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Luka is Haroun's younger brother, a late-born child whose arrival "can turn back Time itself".
Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie - review
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The expected revenue from this source was depended upon to help turn back the enemy.
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I headed out for a walk this afternoon, but had to turn back about 10 minutes into my amble.
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I turn back to the mass of people crowding around me.
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I made it to the corner but they opened fire on my first try, and shot at me, so I had to turn back.
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We can't turn back now.
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Return back to a squat position then jump up as high as possible.
The Sun
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But they can't turn back the clocks.
The Sun
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Just as a ratchet turns easily one way but can not turn back, so genetic defects inevitably accumulate.
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The danger is certainly a lion in the way; you can go ahead or turn back.
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Turn back to the summaries at the end of section 1.5.
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I even "portaged" my cell phone meaning I had to turn back and go get it when I forgot it...
Authenticity: If You Have to Ax, You Can't Afford It
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If I could turn back time I would but I can't so it's time to look forward.
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The currents proved too strong and he was forced to turn back.
Times, Sunday Times
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The hikers got into a storm and had to turn back
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For future reference, if a label doesn't come with written instructions, turn back to this care symbol checklist before attempting to launder your clothes.
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He asked the police to regulate entry of yatries at the holy cave so that more people could have darshan in a given time and return back.
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The road has to buck and turn back on itself to cross each range.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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Afterwards he sailed on to reach 68° south, which was at the time the furthest southern latitude attained by any sailing trip, before having to turn back.
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Look away from a mirror-flat fiord reflecting a mound of clouds, and when you turn back there may be milky waters below a snow-capped mountain streaked with sunlight.
So Far, So Good
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Despair and/or 'Disgust' (i.e., rejective denial, or 'sour grapes' feeling towards what life might have been) represent the opposite disposition: feelings of wasted opportunities, regrets, wishing to be able to turn back the clock and have a second chance.
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But they can't turn back the clocks.
The Sun
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I turned round to look at everyone who had now sat down, and saw traces of jealousy drain from Jacob's face and turn back to a grin.
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To machine-stitch a blind hem, fold up the hem, then turn back the garment just below the hem raw edge.
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Courts, the media and the public have managed so far to turn back some of the zealous excesses of this government to persecute, harass and maroon our duskier citizens.
Archive 2009-08-01
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The currents proved too strong and he was forced to turn back.
Times, Sunday Times
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If the aircraft was making a contrail, the pilot was to turn back.
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Now we're going to turn back the clock with some rock 'n' roll from the 1950s.
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I am about to make a turn back, the two of us still looking for further splashes when without warning the short bait, riding behind the Big Herbie teaser, is smacked hard and instantly we are into a fish.
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Every attempt to turn back the time and, furthermore, to restore totalitarian communism is absurd.
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As soon as somebody starts trying to prove something to me, something happens; - my attention drifts off and I have to wait until they stop before I can turn back and carry on the conversation.
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When not at combat readiness, the mailed knight would unfasten his ventail, throw back his coif, and turn back his mittens but, for combat, he would be wholly covered in mail except at the groin and upper face.
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Others reach the open sea only to turn back inland.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rose could hear Laurie calling her, but she didn't turn back.
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Remember Cassini, the multibillion dollar spaceship we put in orbit around Saturn back in July?
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I turn back to Nicky, whose eyes have not left Lena's raven curls and curvaceous figure.
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With water it is slaked; and then slowly absorbs or fixes air or gas again to turn back into the starting substance.
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But the postBeatrice canzoni discussed in the Convivio are not entirely repudiated in the turn back to Beatrice and sacred love represented by the Commedia, given the role that two of the three play in the poem.
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Turn back the clocks a few months and we were worrying about traffic congestion, or calculating how to make a fast buck at the expense of well-off southern toffs.
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They have been consulting on what to do with those who have severe personality disorders and they seem set to turn back the clock a century by locking them up in Bedlams and throwing away the key.
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Sit on this porch, persuade the few tourist cars that arrived that they really ought to turn back.
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Return back to a squat position then jump up as high as possible.
The Sun
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The nauseating smell combined with the speleological hazards nearly made me turn back.
Perseus Spur
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Yet can we really turn back time and be - not just look - younger than our chronological age?
Times, Sunday Times
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The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.
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This outfit is a-goin 'to turn back, and we'll all sleep at Pete's place to-night.
The Shagganappi
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Turn back the tide of communism
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Meantime I practised terrible vocal exercises, chiefly consisting of a raucous "caw" something like a crow's favourite remark, and advocated by my teacher in elocution for no reason that I can now remember; and I stood before the glass for hours at a time making grimaces so as to acquire the "actor's face," till my frightened little sisters implored me to turn back into myself again.
Painted Windows
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Now we're going to turn back the clock with some rock 'n' roll from the 1950s.
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Those who turn back never reach the summit.
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Glamorous as ever, this year in a shimmering dark chocolate-colored sheath topped with milk chocolate froth, she drew on her own experience to tell students that when you most want to turn back, you should stride forward.
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Nothing I heard or saw on my travels offered a single, practical clue about how to turn back the global tsunami of anti-Americanism.
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Turn back on to the skin side and drizzle with olive oil and salt.
Times, Sunday Times
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One engine "conked" and he was forced to turn back.
Night Bombing with the Bedouins
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She wished she could turn back the clock, relive the day before the floater's advent just one last day unclouded by this random smear, the world still crystalline in both eyes.
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It's going to backfire, specially after Hilton turn back on McCain "oldness" ...
New McCain Ad: Will "Biggest Celebrity In The World" Help Your Family?
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The currents proved too strong and he was forced to turn back.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anyone who was broadsided because they forgot to look left before entering an intersection will tell you how they wished they could turn back the clock.
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The only opposition comes from those who want to turn back the clock completely, spin the altar around, put the Mass back in Latin, enshrine the tabernacle on the altar, and reimpose the law of Friday abstinence.
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Kidman plays a prototypical bubblehead who is only smart when she decides to turn back clocks for breakfast or to magically change the spending level on a credit card.
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The gills are split longitudinally at the edge, and the two lips commonly turn backward (revolute).
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
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She was always tremendously energetic, laughing, busy, busy laughing and trying her damndest to turn back the forces of darkness that pervade our visions of the future, here & elsewhere.
Errin Vuley memorial on Friday, November 20 at 11:00am (Blog for Democracy)
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Plus Scalia would look mighty fine straddling the guns of a Navy battleship in that fishnet thong getup from the "If I Could Turn Back Time" video (which is also a anthem wholly apropos of Scalia's jurisprudence).
Balkinization
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The editor was not an uncompromising ideologue attempting to turn back the clock.
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Even a UN security mission sent in to assess the situation had to turn back before reaching Mazar because it was too dangerous to proceed.
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And now the pitch of Paulson before Congress was not to turn back and look at history but to demean it as being "outmoded" and not "modern", whatever that means.
Wayne Rogers: Forgetting the Past
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Some of the men refused to obey an instruction from a police officer to turn back from the pits, and were arrested.
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We shall have to turn back if there's the slightest hint of fog.
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The pilot tried to turn back but the jet exploded and a large fireball ripped into a crowded residential area.
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Willing my heart to beat normally, I defy the urge to turn back or freeze or cry out.
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Sweep forward two full turns of the handwheel and then one turn back.
Boing Boing: June 26, 2005 - July 2, 2005 Archives
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Yet can we really turn back time and be - not just look - younger than our chronological age?
Times, Sunday Times
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McCain unbeknownst to Warner has indeed picked up a hot charcoal ember with his tongs, and purple with rage waits for Warner to turn back.
“Weenies”
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USA Today reports that more and more men are trying to turn back the clock with cosmetic nips and tucks.
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Then Beverley carried each drink in turn back to our table, whilst Trevor collected her change.
RESCUING ROSE
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It's getting late - maybe we should turn back.
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Something made me turn back, I had to talk to the man who makes politicians, generals, statesmen, policy makers, backroom boys, show biz people squirm, simper, and sob.
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And then order a bottle of Champagne -- and another, until the Deloitte managers turn back into beautiful girls in bedsheets, the slot machines blur into a hypnotic lightshow and the stench of cigarettes and sweat are replaced by the taste of rum and the standard of your hotel room doesn't matter because neither you nor the anonymous college girl you bring back will remember it anyway.
Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Two: Spending a Sober Month on the Vegas Strip? Don't Forget to Bring Your Own Stripper
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Turn back to the previous page.
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Refugees beware: the United States, once a leader in refugee protection, is demonstrating to the world that a government can turn back any refugee by inaudibly uttering the words "national security.
Mark Hetfield: Refugees, Hairdressers, and Homeland Security
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We are not going to turn back the clock to a, probably mythical, Golden Age.
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Turn back on to the skin side and drizzle with olive oil and salt.
Times, Sunday Times
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The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.
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We'd better turn back; it's getting dark.
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So that was a wasted journey and I had to return back to work an unhappy bunny.
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According to the map we missed our turn back there.
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I'm expecting him to turn back around and continue.
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But they can't turn back the clocks.
The Sun
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My son was trippin' when his phone wouldn't turn back on.
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While the seamen, pointing fingers, shrink in dread, and cry, 'Turn back!'
The Voyage of Magellan
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He should never turn back from a train of thought because it may lead to a heresy, and he should not mind very much if his unorthodoxy is smelt out, as it probably will be.
Writers and Leviathan
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Mary Jane and I have been wet through once already to-day; we set off in the donkey-carriage for Farringdon, as I wanted to see the improvements Mr. Woolls is making, but we were obliged to turn back before we got there, but not soon enough to avoid a pelter all the way home.
Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record
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Broderick gave a splendid preamble asking the president to turn back from the god of war to the master he professes to follow, and quoted from the Beatitudes of Jesus, the ‘blessed ares.’
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Our guide kept moving at the same pace, and didn't turn back to face us, or give us any sign that our destination was close at hand.
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By picking a system with a multi-layered filter approach as well as one that adapts readily to new spam and virus trends, customers can turn back the tide on spam and increase their chances of purchasing a future-proof system.
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The road has to buck and turn back on itself to cross each range.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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Then after a fabulous night of glitz and glamour, it would be time to ‘turn back into a pumpkin again’.
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Then after a fabulous night of glitz and glamour, it would be time to ‘turn back into a pumpkin again’.
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By sticking their hands in the dirt, eating what they or a neighbor planted, they are turning a network of ignorance -- the anonymous, placeless food of industrial agriculture, with all its invisible polluting side-effects -- into a circuit of knowledge: here I planted it, here it grew, and here it will turn back into soil when it's done.
Jedediah Purdy: Environmental Imagination: The Food Movement and Climate Change
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I was secretly relieved when Ed said it was time to turn back.
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So many times she wanted to turn back and seek solace in the comfort of her home and family.
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Her great eyes, black, with weary white lids, used to follow me as I left the hospital ward, and I could not always tear myself away from their dumb beseechingness, but would turn back and sit down again by the bed.
The Story of My Life
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Those who turn back never reach the summit.
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The huge structures have endless corridors, barren hallways like tunnels that turn back upon themselves, leading nowhere.
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Those who turn back never reach the summit.
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The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.
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Those who turn back never reach the summit.
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Withershins 'Latch, wi' ilka ane a gude oak souple in his hand, we wadna turn back, no for half a dizzen o 'yon scaff-raff.'
Guy Mannering — Complete
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Unknown to him, Barbara had written her own reportage of Liberia: Land Benighted (reissued in 1981 as Too Late to Turn Back) is a masterpiece of comic observation and mock-heroic misadventure.
Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family by Jeremy Lewis
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The currents proved too strong and he was forced to turn back.
Times, Sunday Times
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The northern party had to turn back, recross the Potomac, and take the Winchester road.
George Washington’s First War
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The few barflies left in the joint turn back to their drinks as if nothing had happened.
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But, "-- meaningly --" if you were to stow yourself away in the eyes of the gig it is just possible that the captain might not notice you until we had got too far from the ship to turn back.
A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story
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She wept a little but set her lips together and tried to push me away so that she could turn back to her work.
Scottish Voices 1745-1960
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There is only one way to turn back the tide.
The Sun
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You may ride in your quiet road-stead on the other side with all your ships, till God send us that long-wished-for westerly wind, unless you get a _slatch_ of wind to carry one of your ships to the _bab_, to see if all be well there, and so return back to you.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08
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The currents proved too strong and he was forced to turn back.
Times, Sunday Times
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I had maist forgottent, said the hardy Borderer; but I think this morning, now that I am fresh and sober, if you and I were at the Withershins Latch, wi ilka ane a gude oak souple in his hand, we wadna turn back, no for half a dizzen o yon scaff-raff.
Chapter XXV
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We'd better turn back; it's getting dark.
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It starts to sleet and the judge, Papa, and Grandpa want to turn back.
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Chanting and moving as a unit, the chorus would proceed in one direction (movement called the strophe), turn back using the same meter
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 3
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Neither action will make us any safer, but fear fuels a futile desire to turn back time and freeze the world the way it was, or the way we thought it was, before the news hit.
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There is only one way to turn back the tide.
The Sun
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Nobody can turn back the wheel of history.
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NIV My enemies turn back; they stumble and perish before you.
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“And so her nainsell would, and never fash you for the matter; but it is said, Gow Chrom, that you sing and whistle tunes over the swords and harnishes that you work, that have power to make the blades cut steel links as if they were paper, and the plate and mail turn back steel lances as if they were boddle prins?”
The Fair Maid of Perth
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The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.
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Preoccupied with the need to outpace their pursuers, his captors did not turn back to chase Scott - but the teenager's woes were far from over.
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I wish I could start all and turn back to my freshman life.
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a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history
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If we turn back a page or two of history, and look at the failure of the sumptuary laws in England, we find the wives of London tradesmen, who were not permitted to wear velvet in public, lining their grogram gowns with this costly fabric, for the mere pleasure of possession, for the meaningless -- and most unreasonable -- joy of expenditure.
Americans and Others
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The huge structures have endless corridors, barren hallways like tunnels that turn back upon themselves, leading nowhere.
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It is pretty much impossible to turn back the negative effects of ongoing sleep deprivation - when it starts showing up in lackluster skin and pouches under the eyes, it's way too late.
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His group was forced to turn back and take an alternate route.
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But once the bubble has burst they turn back to basics and begin studying exactly what companies and their profits are up to.
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Now we're going to turn back the clock with some rock 'n' roll from the 1950s.
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Richard wished that he had lived in frontier days, but he can't turn back the clock.
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'I had maist forgotten't,' said the hardy Borderer; 'but I think this morning, now that I am fresh and sober, if you and I were at the Withershins' Latch, wi 'ilka ane a gude oak souple in his hand, we wadna turn back, no for half a dizzen o' yon scaff-raff. '
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01
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As you turn back from where you came through, you could see the entrance glowing in a silvery colour.
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Only later did the skin of the shark turn back to its more usual blue-and-white shading.
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The currents proved too strong and he was forced to turn back.
Times, Sunday Times
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A cross-Channel ferry carrying 500 passengers had to turn back when a woman gave birth on board.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was on being awoken in such manner and waiting to return back to sleep, she often wondered why she never heard the demure tintinnabula of the other Devadasis 'bells.
Knell Quarternion
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Think Thousand times before taking a decision But - After taking decision never turn back even if you get Thousand difficulties!! Adolf Hitler
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The TV presenter faced a conundrum after trying to turn back the clock with unflattering bleached locks.
The Sun
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You should see the news dispatches and speeches carried by the bourgeois press, which euphorically, euphorically [repeats himself] state that socialism has ended, that it was a dream, an illusion; that all men should turn back to a shameful, revulsive capitalism.
President Castro Dedicates Cienfuegos School
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Those who turn back never reach the summit.
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They were halfway up the mountain, when the weather became so bad that they were forced to turn back.
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The administration has now endorsed the bill and can't turn back.
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Now we're going to turn back the clock with some rock 'n' roll from the 1950s.
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And no, I 'tak marah pun'. nads went at 00: 01 turn back | go forth diary now then id notes guestbook exit points
Naddywoman Diary Entry
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We shall have to turn back if there's the slightest hint of fog.
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And in the end, of course, Obama speaks of King and takes up the adjuration of the "young preacher from Georgia" to march forward and not to turn back.
Mayhill Fowler: Obama's Nomination Speech In Denver and Dayton
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The shop keepers have to turn back many teenagers who come expecting to find mini music systems, cameras and electric razors.
