Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] back " in BNC.
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| 31 | She closes her eyes squeezing back the tears . |
| 32 | He regarded the men beneath him impassively , his eyes flicking back and forth as they looked up at him . |
| 33 | Donna frowned and put her foot down , coaxing more speed from the Volvo , her eyes flicking back and forth from windscreen to rear-view mirror . |
| 34 | She banished the horrible image from her mind ; the contorted face , the eyes rolling back as Irina fell after the blow to her head . |
| 35 | Glossy blue-black , heavily built , they twisted and turned in unison , deep croaks echoing back from the walls of the ravine . |
| 36 | Here , the concrete Yeah that but we have n't got the resources to do it yet We 've just got a couple of assumptions At , together at the beginning The tractor and trailer is generally helping moving between cranes loading back and forth , so many areas So , unless you want us to go through this literally point by point , it 's question time . |
| 37 | She jerked her arm away , rubbing the bruised flesh , her eyes spitting back at him like a cornered animal . |
| 38 | Links between sentences can to some extent be made explicit in a similar way , by using connectives such as therefore , thus , on the other hand , or words referring back to previous sentence ( Turner , 1973 ) . |
| 39 | Given that suspended particulates have been the subject of pollution control policies dating back to the nineteenth century , it is not surprising that total emissions and average urban concentrations of particulates have decreased markedly during the past few decades . |
| 40 | Located on the grand Keizers canal , this delightful hotel is set in two beautifully restored merchant houses dating back to 1630 . |
| 41 | The Fletchers had a flat on the first floor of one of the fine period houses dating back to the bad old days of the monarchy and the Iron Guard . |
| 42 | He said that the official in charge of antiquities at the Nasiriya Museum had received from the Americans a ‘ very small number ’ of terracotta objects dating back to the dawn of mankind and the Babylonian period , some of which had only recently been broken . |
| 43 | The objects offered in the present sale have been culled from ‘ [ secret ] warehouses dating back to the start of the Revolution in 1949 and also from the time of the Cultural Revolution ’ . |
| 44 | The British monarchy , and the survival of aristocratic titles dating back to the Norman conquest lend a spurious sense of continuity to English history ( if not to that of the other countries in the UK ) , suggesting that feudalism imperceptibly evolved into modern capitalist democracy . |
| 45 | Set in six acres of parkland , Ayton Hall is an elegant 19th-century house with foundations dating back to 1281 . |
| 46 | LIVERPOOL 'S Patent Office , with records of inventions dating back to 1617 , is raising its profile among businesses as a valuable source of research and development material . |
| 47 | The buyer will customarily ask for accounts ranging back for three years in respect of the activities of the management company . |
| 48 | You could see the prisoners looking back at the two bodies in the centre of the carnage ; there was a lot of blood now , spreading in pools . |
| 49 | Lawyers and doctors had their own institutions dating back to Tudor times , but the great expansion of the professions occurred in the Victorian age . |
| 50 | An example of presentation infidelity , uncovered in our survey , was where companies showed a series of columns sloping back towards the right away from the common baseline of the X axis . |
| 51 | Fossil goat-antelopes dating back 35 million years closely resemble the serow , and present day goat-antelopes have probably evolved from a serow-like ancestor . |
| 52 | Historic ruins dating back to late 12th Century . |
| 53 | I am especially pleased to welcome JCI back as a shareholder , a position they held from 1918 until 1979 , cementing the close relationship between our two companies dating back to the last century . |
| 54 | There were other polled cattle in Ireland throughout the ages : the ‘ maol ’ ( hornless ) types are referred to in traditional cattle-raiding stories which in some cases can be traced back to the fourth century , and remains of polled cattle have been found ( along with small , horned Kerry types ) at archaeological sites dating back three to four thousand years . |
| 55 | From the 1966 census , but with analyses pushing back to 1961 , several major studies have attempted to use a wide range of census data grouped in new and more functional ways to depict the spatial characteristics of the British population . |
| 56 | The Llandinabo herd has British bloodlines going back 200 years . |
| 57 | Seton halted further profitless talk and sent the emissaries hurrying back with a single cannon-shot above their heads . |
| 58 | Perhaps the biggest problem with the Severin thesis is that recent work in Mesoamerican archaeology , and the deciphering of Mayan hieroglyphic codes , make it clear that the classic Mayan civilisation ( AD300 to AD900 ) had precursors going back to the Olmecs in 1000BC and earlier . |
| 59 | The rest are reports of hospital visits going back over eighteen months . ’ |
| 60 | And the other one which is er Mr and that er has details of various convictions with er picture of his as a rather younger man er , various offences going back to nineteen seventy five and occupying quite a long space but there . |