Example sentences of "back the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I turned away and headed back the way I had come I passed two dead cows lying on the grass , large shrapnel wounds on their bodies . |
| 2 | I start going back the way I came . |
| 3 | Much of its stealth comes from a design that minimises the chance of radar waves bouncing back the way they came . |
| 4 | Not looking back the way they had come , because she could not bear to watch Joe . |
| 5 | Before he could introduce himself , Emily turned and began to walk back the way she had come . |
| 6 | ‘ Let's go back the way we came , ’ Coconut said to Gareth . |
| 7 | Elisabeth was torn between retreating at once , following the path back the way she had come , or continuing as far as the colonnade to look through the windows into the music room . |
| 8 | Once , on a more adventurous day , he began taking some of the furniture apart with a screwdriver he found beside the garden shed , but was caught by his mother and told to put it back the way he had found it before she chased him out of the house . |
| 9 | Throttle open and keeping to the centre of the stream where there were no obstructions , he powered the BMW in second gear straight back the way they had come . |
| 10 | They turned on their heels and started back the way they 'd come . |
| 11 | He drove quickly and dangerously back the way they 'd come . |
| 12 | It was too cold and windy to sit and wait , though , so I limped back the way I had come , embittered at having to walk unnecessarily . |
| 13 | Some joker had daubed the pub sign on the reverse of a notice which looked back the way I had come . |
| 14 | The only way he was able to free himself was to grab the branch and work against the current , going back the way he came in . |
| 15 | He got up and wandered back the way we 'd come . |
| 16 | If I walked back the way we 'd come , there 'd be a bus stop , would n't there ? |
| 17 | There is another back the way we have come … |
| 18 | Grant saw Forster and Lawton reappear , moving back the way they had come . |
| 19 | Meredith waved goodbye and watched her set off back the way they had come in the direction of Pook 's stables . |
| 20 | He ran back the way they 'd come . |
| 21 | Old Herky turned around and slowly started back the way he had come . |
| 22 | They had to wait 20 minutes for a train to take them back the way they 'd just come from , then hire cabs to return to the Five Ways area . |
| 23 | Then he was gone , with the bruiser , back the way he had come . |
| 24 | They drove back the way they had come . |
| 25 | He also glanced back the way he had come . |
| 26 | Then , mindful of my companions , I crawled back the way I had come , getting muddier and acquiring even more scratches . |
| 27 | He went back the way he had come , hearing the music ahead of him , and recognized the tune of a Geordie air . |
| 28 | At the meeting-place of roads on the Plateau d'Iraty there are four things you can do : go unadventurously back the way you came , to Esterençuby ; carry on due east over the Col Bagargui along a tolerable but not always reassuring road into Larrau and the valley of Mauléon ; turn sharp left along a somewhat hazardous stretch of track rather than road towards the village of Men dive ( I funk Ed this route myself , after a short trial run , but bad roads do get mended or improved in the Pyrenees , so one year 's experience may be different from the next ) ; or turn to the right along the very scenic road into the Forêt d'Iraty itself . |
| 29 | Coming down from the Col de la Pierre-Saint-Martin there is no need to drive back the way you came , through Arette , because five miles from the top you can fork off to the right and come down in sylvan splendour through the very heart of the Forêt d'lssaux , before either turning sharp left down the valley of the Lourdios and a not very good road to Issor , or carrying straight on to follow one of two better , more or less interchangeable roads back into the valley of the Aspe near Bedous . |
| 30 | The Col d'Aubisque is high , at 5,600 feet , and the views that you have from it are sumptuous , both back the way you have come , and now to the east as well , across to the prominent peak of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre , once thought to be the highest in the chain because it stands rather apart and closer to the plain , and before people took to actually measuring altitudes , the nearest peaks were mistaken for the tallest . |