Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [v-ing] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 2 | In the passage leading back to the northbound platform of the Northern Line they stopped in a corner , the man got out his mouth organ and the bear began to dance . |
| 3 | It was reported by a bloke down the hill coming back from the pub . |
| 4 | But the risk of rocket failure was considered too high , potentially bringing the radioactivity raining back into the earth 's atmosphere . |
| 5 | The Laurels was a very nice house on the edge of the town standing back from the road in a large garden . |
| 6 | going along the Kingsway coming back from the driv the driving test centre |
| 7 | Somehow , after half an hour , I was at the top looking back at the sign which warned ‘ Rapide Descente 300 metres ’ . |
| 8 | Jaq wondered at his own motives for wishing to view the mock-Stealer changing back into a woman — teasing , ambivalent motives . |
| 9 | He left the hospital and began to walk slowly along the boulevard leading back to the centre of Perugia . |
| 10 | Llewelyn came to his feet with a leap that shook the chair jarring back across the floor-boards , and tumbled the scattered rolls of parchment to the rugs . |
| 11 | Outside stood a young man in oilskins , the hood blowing back from a soaking tangle of brown hair blackened by the rain , and one hand gripping a duffel bag . |
| 12 | He held his hand out to her , but Fran ignored it , brushing past him to head towards the door leading back from the deck . |
| 13 | The knife clattered to the floor , and he threw in a right-hook to the jaw that sent the man reeling back against the counter , gasping , ‘ Pick it up , Mike — quick ! ’ |
| 14 | And er as I 've said before , I have n't seen a a barrel of oil burning and the heat and smoke that comes off that you consider the amount of oil that would have been in the separators on the platform at the time , I think it would have still have caused an awful lot of heat and an awful lot of smoke and fire , and er just shutting off the oil coming back to the platform maybe would n't have helped that much . |
| 15 | Investigations in the temple of Aphrodite , after whom the city was named , have revealed evidence ofa long history for the cult of the goddess going back to the sixth century ac . |
| 16 | The next one in was always the one to worry about , not the player walking back to the dressing-room . ’ |
| 17 | The view looking back to the station and 61094 — its departure was at 16.20 . |
| 18 | That is why the concept of the safety case — a case going back to the very essentials of design — is so important . |
| 19 | His origins are obscure , but he seems to have been a German from one of the tribes which were allowed to settle within the Empire , and for which privilege they were liable for military service , a practice going back to the late third century . |
| 20 | Sultan Pakubuono XI of Surakarta comes from a lineage reaching back to the ninth century and , despite Indonesia 's official birth into the modern age with her independence in 1949 , the Sultan , like his ancestors before him , remains the uncrowned " Pope " of pre-Islamic Javanese mysticism . |
| 21 | The ILEA covered the area of the former LCC and thus ensured a continuity going back to the establishment of the London School Board in 1870 ( Maclure 1988 : 110 — 11 ) . |
| 22 | Such testate protozoans have a record extending back to the Cambrian . |
| 23 | Why should Shadrach contemplate for a moment stepping back into the burning fiery furnace ? |
| 24 | Craig hurried up the stairs as the knocking became more insistent and paused for a moment staring back to the hallway . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , at Newbury , our archaeologists have worked with the Trust for Wessex Archaeology and unearthed the remains of flint tools from a site dating back to the Middle Stone Age . |
| 26 | Spectators gasped in awe at the sight of a ball landing back in the same court . |
| 27 | Before answering them , just just spend a minute thinking back over the last week . |
| 28 | Another , more startling , departure was the introduction of regular team talks , the idea for which came on a train travelling back from an away match . |
| 29 | Before ducking back into cover , he was rewarded by a clear sight of a man falling back behind the Dodge , Manville 's bullet buried in his stomach . |
| 30 | He was fined £50 for breaching a local by-law but yesterday claimed it was everybody 's right to search for bait in a ruling dating back to the Magna Carta in 1215 . |