Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he 's retired into the kitchen , of all places , and we 're having to feed him people to meet one by one , like birds bringing back food for their young . ’ |
| 2 | Then , in the light reflected from the snow , he saw Manescu 's dark eyes gazing back at him . |
| 3 | Was she imagining it , or were his eyes gazing back at Nicole 's like a lingering caress ? |
| 4 | The sea-blue eyes gazing back at her were coolly assessing , and it took considerable effort on her part not to look away . |
| 5 | During the refurbishment programme the ledgers dating back to 1717 were taken into Archive Department 's collection where they will be looked after professionally , and many objets d'art were temporarily removed from the building for safe-keeping and restoration . |
| 6 | Much of its stealth comes from a design that minimises the chance of radar waves bouncing back the way they came . |
| 7 | Some of his compositions are based on songs dating back to the mid-fifteenth century . |
| 8 | Columns of his own observations of winds , visibility , temperature and cloud-cover fill thick books dating back to 1933 . |
| 9 | And in the library there is a more recent collection of men 's pin-up books dating back to the Fifties . |
| 10 | Then she leant forward and kissed him on the mouth , brushed his lips , stroked them with hers , watched his eyes looking back at her . |
| 11 | Eyes looking back and I 'd got the old bit moving all the time keeping , he said righto get out , you 're leading me , they were too pleased to get rid of them . |
| 12 | This important collection increases the Museum 's geographical and subject coverage and comprises of approximately 70,000 images including views of locomotives , rolling stock , moving trains , railway architecture and civil engineering subjects dating back to the early 1900's . |
| 13 | We have taken various risks looking back over the years , like Wapping . |
| 14 | Why should the people of Lambeth be subjected to savage bills because their local authority fails to collect rents , the community charge , and even outstanding rates arrears going back over many years ? |
| 15 | Benjamin ( 1979b , p. 226 ) wrote of the surrealist movement that ‘ life only seemed worth living where the threshold between waking and sleeping was worn away in everyone as by the steps of multitudinous images flooding back and forth , language only seemed itself where sound and image , image and sound interpenetrated with such felicity that no chink was left for the penny-in-the-slot called ‘ meaning ’ ’ . |
| 16 | Benjamin ( 1979b , p. 226 ) wrote of the surrealist movement that ‘ life only seemed worth living where the threshold between waking and sleeping was worn away in everyone as by the steps of multitudinous images flooding back and forth , language only seemed itself where sound image , image and sound interpenetrated with such felicity that no chink was left for the penny-in. the-slot called ‘ meaning ’ ’ . |
| 17 | He drew in a breath , his shoulders going back . |
| 18 | Young Outdoor Action readers heading back to school will at least have something to look forward to — outdoor activity lessons . |
| 19 | The hardships that Ceauşescu imposed were not only necessary to provide the funds and material for everything from the House of the People ( to which they would be denied access ) to canals without traffic and power-stations without fuel , but also formed part of the folk-wisdom of tyrants going back much further in history than Ceauşescu 's own model , Stalin . |
| 20 | He had the order books going back for years and years and he was able to show me . |
| 21 | Claudine did n't seem to know that this was a cruel dig at Jenna ; she only appeared to note the word ‘ beautiful ’ , and with that her interest faded , her eyes going back to Alain . |
| 22 | ‘ But only one redhead , ’ firmly stated the old lady , her eyes going back to Theda 's flaming crown , which she had dragged into a knot on top of her head and then allowed to fall behind . |
| 23 | At this point in the narrative we need to turn to the remarkable Register concerning the imperial question ( Regestum super negotio Romani imperii or RNI ) , a secret register opened by the papal curia between August and September 1199 , but containing entries going back to 3 May . |
| 24 | While shopkeepers in Skinnergate admitted deliveries had been difficult with drivers turning back , most supported the idea of traffic-free streets . |
| 25 | Clearly he had not been content to wait , and as she looked at the hard , handsome face she knew he was furiously angry , only good manners holding back the words that were obviously uppermost in his mind . |
| 26 | Oddly by erm , I 'm happy to say , even Gulf journalists coming back . |
| 27 | Earlier rate cuts are beginning to filter through the economy and the retail trade is making optimistic noises about shoppers coming back to the High Street . |
| 28 | With the economy moving out of recession we expect to see fewer clients cutting back and this should help reduce our terminations . |
| 29 | Clytemnestra let out an unearthly keening howl , her lips snarling back and her tail a stiff prolongation of her backbone . |
| 30 | When she takes him into the living-room there is a kind of roar , and a man emerges from the background of people and easy chairs , and advances upon Howard , his arms outstretched , his deep , dark eyes raking back and forth over Howard 's face , soaking it in with eager amazement . |