Example sentences of "[v-ing] back the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They burned and burned , driving back the darkness . |
| 2 | Fires loomed in the night , driving back the darkness . |
| 3 | She saw them at the same moment and hesitated , then she turned and began walking back the way she had come . |
| 4 | The abrupt cut can be softened by a lap dissolve , originally done by gradually closing down the iris on the lens ( a fade-out ) , winding back the film and then opening up the iris for the same length of time and film ( a fade-in ) . |
| 5 | Does he agree that that would give parents an objective answer to the question , ’ How is my child 's school doing ? ’ , as well as further pressing back the frontiers of choice in education ? |
| 6 | Wpc Jones was keeping back the crowd and he called to her , ‘ Send for the ambulance ! ’ |
| 7 | Without actually giving her the details — and still keeping back the crucial fact of Christine 's death , which would have changed the tone of their conversations completely — Lucy had been able to give Josie some idea of her home situation and of the problems that she 'd caused with actions that she 'd felt to be right . |
| 8 | That , too , she managed to turn into a joke , while keeping back the unwelcome sighting of Robert . |
| 9 | So to the beach Kaptan and I would go , or walk around the garden , pulling out weeds , me trimming back the undergrowth while he handed spare tools up the ladder . |
| 10 | ‘ What 's your name ? ’ he asked , casually tossing back the rest of the ale . |
| 11 | But he decided they probably had enough on their minds for the moment ; and swiftly tossing back the Glenlivet , he left them , making his way thoughtfully to the front entrance , and wondering something else : wondering whether any announcement of Kemp 's death — Kemp 's murder — would have come as too much of a surprise to one of the four people who still sat round their table in the Chapters Bar . |
| 12 | ‘ Knocking back the Champers , I notice . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Millie ! ’ he called , knocking back the drink himself . |
| 14 | There were about a dozen writers in hospitality , most of them busy knocking back the hard stuff . |
| 15 | Eureka Oxterguff , na hauff , see the Majestic , the smella lacquer in the lavvys wid 've knocked you miroc amok never mind knocking back the quarter bottle . |
| 16 | hard men knocking back the brandy , each of us |
| 17 | He was in the restaurant kitchen late one night before closing up , knocking back the remains of four glasses of liqueur from a dirty table , when his head suddenly cleared and he heard some lines from the past in a devastating playback in his head : ‘ You 're better off without me ’ — Bella 's voice , coolly justifying herself to him on the telephone . |
| 18 | The home side 's West Indian professional George Ferris made the visitors struggle knocking back the stumps four times and taking five for 75 but Darlington won by four wickets . |
| 19 | Not looking back the way they had come , because she could not bear to watch Joe . |
| 20 | ‘ But , like it or not , we were there and involved in it , and looking back the amazing thing for me is I 'm sitting here , breathing , after all that . |
| 21 | Looking back the staff who worked there are amazed that there was " such a good spirit when you think of all that people had to contend with " but the overwhelming impression is that of happiness and enjoyment . |
| 22 | He touched her face gently , his thumb brushing her cheek , his fingers lightly smoothing back the straying tendrils of her hair . |
| 23 | Goldberg , pushing back the typewriter and drawing the pad towards him , began again . |
| 24 | Their achievement was in pushing back the frontiers of distance running with world records . |
| 25 | Instead , she imagines a kind of lifelong therapy , a continuous flow of repressed material , liberated through art and fantasy , pushing back the borders of the self . |
| 26 | A second hour went by , while little by little I abandoned hope first of one bus connection , and then of another , until there were footsteps and a small thin man hurried in , pushing back the strands of hair which had plastered themselves across his forehead . |
| 27 | Many of his suggestions were taken up , including pushing back the 17th tee boxes and steeply bunkering the green so as to oblige the player to pitch his second ‘ enabling him to stay on the green ’ , already notoriously difficult to stay on once reached . |
| 28 | It has , by pushing back the boundaries of human knowledge , given us much that has enriched our lives . |
| 29 | Pushing back the boundaries |
| 30 | She worked as Assistant Curator to Jill Morgan at Rochdale Art Gallery 1988–1990 and staged major shows by Donald Rodney , Critical and Claudette Johnson , Pushing Back the Boundaries . |