Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] back [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , when we were driving back towards the tunnel , do you know Upper Parliament Street ? |
| 2 | Heinrich and Martha were walking back to the Reach hand in hand . |
| 3 | ‘ Thank you for a lovely meal , ’ she said , when Vitor had settled the bill and they were walking back along the quay . |
| 4 | As we were walking back through the garden to the house , he said to me , ‘ Jane , you 've had a strange night . |
| 5 | On the contrary , when that afternoon 's session ended and we were walking back across the campus , he put one of his Anglepoise arms across my shoulders and attempted some avuncularity . |
| 6 | Then we were walking back towards the carriage , and as we passed I heard Mr Jonesy say to the preacher , ‘ I 'll give 'im the devil when I get 'im 'ome . ’ |
| 7 | While they were walking back from the Huddersfield discotheque , it suddenly dawned on Fred and Arthur that they had eaten three main meals that day instead of two . |
| 8 | They were shrinking back from the basement door . |
| 9 | Already the warriors were climbing back into the saddle . |
| 10 | But now the men were sprinting back from the ramparts . |
| 11 | The papers , covered with crosses and signatures , were passing back to the organizers . |
| 12 | He doffed his cap as we marched past , and a few paces further on we negotiated the turn and were heading back along the road on the other side of the village green towards the saluting base . |
| 13 | La Dolce vita had turned unimaginably sour and it was not long before the Italian stallions were heading back to the English First Division . |
| 14 | Tillard and Royal Marine Lt. R.C. Hay , spotted another Z.506B as they were heading back towards the carrier , and attacked . |
| 15 | He took a briefcase with him , as if he were going back to the Works . |
| 16 | Neighbours said they were going back to the country . |
| 17 | ‘ We were going back to the hotel when it happened . |
| 18 | He had never forgotten the day in the bide shed when Nutty had told him the horses were going back to the knacker 's , and the fearful panic that had exploded inside him , worse than any brushes with the police or his father , worse than anything he could ever remember . |
| 19 | It did not matter that they were going back to the house of the Scarabae . |
| 20 | At the official launch of the the new Countrywatch campaign the area 's police chief said bobbies were going back on the beat in rural areas . |
| 21 | She saw the building that Adolph Brückner had looked at on his arrival that day , the pain in his head threatening like the thunder clouds that were drifting back over the mountain tops . |
| 22 | Because when we were coming back from the park at er , no not the park where was we ? |
| 23 | Pete and Mum were coming back from the shops . |
| 24 | An NCO clutching a grenade marched up to the barrier and Kahane told him that they were coming back from the front and were in a hurry . |
| 25 | One evening when they were coming back from the hunt , he pretended to be someone else and , all alone , jumped on Albuin pretending that he was going to steal by violence the horse Albuin was mounted on . |
| 26 | They were straying back into the realms of evidence , and that would be a matter for the court when the Proof was heard . |
| 27 | The sun still shed a great sparkle on the sea but the heat had gone from it and the dusk was gathering back in the valley . |
| 28 | Once , on a day of snow and melting slush , he was walking back to the Marylebone Road when the Asshe carriage passed by , with Johnny at the reins . |
| 29 | The woman had left the bags and O saw she was walking back to the child , he heard her heels , but O did not stay to see what she did to the child ( and so he did not see her pick the child up in her arms and hold him tight ) ; he turned quickly , and left the station as fast as he could . |
| 30 | One day , I was walking back to the house , and had my camera with me . |