Example sentences of "[v-ing] back towards [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Oh no you wo n't ! ’ cried Tess , going back towards the door . |
| 32 | Suddenly , after a century of realism and what Rice calls ‘ little Protestant novels ’ , the tide is turning back towards the fantastical , towards ‘ magic , the extreme and the eccentric ’ . |
| 33 | Just for a moment , standing by the window , dropping the edge of the curtain he had lifted and turning back towards the cot , Adam saw the picture again , saw it with an awful clarity on the darkness before his eyes . |
| 34 | Upon turning back towards the track I felt strangely relieved to see that the car was still there . ’ |
| 35 | When he was out of sight she crossed the great court to the gatehouse , passed by the open door apparently without a glance , and stood for some minutes in the gateway , looking along the Foregate , before turning back towards the guesthouse . |
| 36 | ‘ No ! ’ he repeated derisively , turning back towards the window . |
| 37 | He is moving back towards the bad practice of selective tax shelters , which Mr Lawson had undermined in his five years as chancellor . |
| 38 | For just when Gabriel thought he was rid of the devil-man , he saw them arguing at a distance , father and daughter ; Izzie pointing back towards the cart , Lucie shaking his head ; Izzie tugging on his arm , pleading , and her father pushing her away . |
| 39 | ‘ We 're losing it ! ’ screamed Doyle angrily , darting back towards the Capri . |
| 40 | wrinkling back towards the knowledge |
| 41 | They dropped the stretcher by Tommy 's side and dragged him on to the canvas before jogging back towards the trench . |
| 42 | But before he could move there was a click and Doyle was starting back towards the camera . |
| 43 | There is a feeling that if the wording were changed to ‘ seeking to interfere with play ’ it would spare the player who is in an offside position but making a genuine attempt to stay onside by , for example , running back towards the halfway line . |
| 44 | As they stood looking and listening , the two boys who Renee had chased off the pillbox earlier , came running back towards the pub from the riverbank . |
| 45 | Lord John twisted round , running back towards the ballroom . |
| 46 | ‘ Get out ! ’ the Doctor called , running back towards the inner door . |
| 47 | Official policy was swinging back towards the model of a freer-standing organization , in the shape of an agency fashioned under the Government 's ‘ Next Steps ’ initiative : |
| 48 | William Tallack , who as Secretary of the Howard Association had experience of criminal affairs reaching back towards the mid-nineteenth century , was among those who took this line . |
| 49 | Now , as from the times of childhood , she rode Fenna , seated in the deep hollow of the meeting place of scaled neck , veined wing and rising battlement of spine ; a throne protected from the great gale of his flight , as safe as the rocky cradle secures the foetal child , leaning back towards the bumpy spine as she had leant before , she gave herself over to their journey . |
| 50 | Now that a reaction is setting in , Mr Gorbachev is leaning back towards the conservatives to keep his balance . |
| 51 | She looked a trifle dazed and who could blame her , but after a minute or so she was on her feet again and tottering back towards the playground . |
| 52 | Relegation followed , and the hopelessly over-stretched club were sliding back towards the Fourth Division when Toshack resigned in 1984 . |
| 53 | But the chair was sliding back towards the table , back to the closeness of conspiracy and friendship . |
| 54 | When he clutched the torn skin of his buttocks , she tickled his belly , and soon the boy-who-was-shaman was whooping with anger , but fleeing back towards the hill , to the mortuary house and the safety of his bones . |