Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] back [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But yesterday , on his 91st birthday , Trafford , whose wife died in sheltered accommodation four years ago , told a community nursing conference in London that , though a Tory voter all his life who thought most of what Mrs Thatcher was doing was good , he saw a danger that old people might be heading back towards the workhouse if the Government went ahead with NHS cuts and changes in community care . |
| 2 | I reckon that at the very least , £1 million will be heading back into the game over the next 10 years thanks to the WRU 's shrewd deal in supplying Burton with 500 tickets for every Arms Park international , plus their cup final . |
| 3 | The happy landowner can then stand at the window smoking a pipe and wave cheerily at the unwelcome hill-walkers , secure in the knowledge that in a few minutes they will be heading back to the car , steam gently rising from them as they blink in distress from behind grisly face-masks of dung . |
| 4 | ‘ Not only will everyone be rushing back to the city today , after the weekend vacation , but I understand Ross has been on the phone , getting the air-conditioning fixed and also seeing about someone to help you with the kids . |
| 5 | ‘ But I 'll be going back with the Templemans . |
| 6 | Twenty-three-year-old Jill Yate took the opportunity of telling her boss that , although she had had a wonderful year travelling around Europe , she was beginning to feel homesick and would soon be going back to the United States . |
| 7 | Joseph would be going back to the United States soon and would be beyond her gossip , but if Maurin convinced her of Joseph 's innocence , then how long would it be before she realized that he , too , had a strong financial motive for wanting the truth about the Durances kept secret ? |
| 8 | He had tricked her , deliberately let her think that they would be going back to the hotel , but if he thought she was going to meekly go along with his conniving then he was going to be sadly disappointed . |
| 9 | And erm I think we 'll be going back to the kind of erm conditions that there were in the Victorian age and in Dickens ' age . |
| 10 | ‘ I had no doubt that I would be going back to the university , ’ he says from his home in Princeton , New Jersey . |
| 11 | we 'll be going back to the Manor Ground a little later on to find out the winner in our manager competition . |
| 12 | Nick Harris reporting , and of course we 'll be going back to the Manor ground shortly and catching up hopefully with Nick Harris and some of Oxford United players . |
| 13 | By right and custom , he himself and James here should be going back to the house for the reading of the will , but this very new Sir Joseph had made it evident yesterday that he wanted no reading done in the house and that he would let them know when he wanted the matter dealt with . |
| 14 | ‘ Now I really ought to be getting back to the apartment . ’ |
| 15 | Perhaps we should be getting back to the roots of organisations like the RA and footpath preservation societies in encouraging people to wander more freely and make use of neglected local paths . |
| 16 | ‘ The Archbishop seems to be harking back to the politics of guilt and the socialist faddism of yesteryear . ’ |
| 17 | Er in relation to King Street er car park , there are there are complications in relation to er the usage of the car parking spaces erm and the health centre and on street car parking erm and we are going to do er further work in surveying the usage of those spaces and how we could perhaps better allocate them to ensure that there are erm spaces available for people who need to get to the surgery and the subcommittee will be reporting back to the council . |
| 18 | Moreover one of them was bound to be reporting back to the Questore , and since there was no way of finding out which he would have to keep them all busy if he was to do what Bartocci had asked . |
| 19 | He did n't know why he was saying these words ; deep down he knew that he should be running back to the truck and getting the rescue organized . |
| 20 | it seems a bit strange though , cos I mean , indirectly we seem to be giving back to the community . |
| 21 | Tomorrow , Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire will be travelling back to the summer of nineteen forty . |
| 22 | If information could be transmitted from here to a Centauri in less time than this , it would effectively be travelling back into the past . |
| 23 | Good idea about 606 , I ca n't do it though I 'll be travelling back from the game ! |
| 24 | Some of this stuff may be coming back to the states via the Far East . |
| 25 | They come out of the heart and branch like a wishbone , one to each lung , do you see that , now the arrow direction is away from the heart and that 's a vein and you 'd expect that to be coming back to the heart would n't you ? |
| 26 | I think we 're almost certainly guaranteed to get the S L O's back into the fold although bearing in mind the recent developments with the C P O's it 's unlikely that they will be coming back to the fold . |
| 27 | But it is a bad time to be coming back into the side with results poor and confidence low . |
| 28 | One more now , as long as they do go out because erm Oh I 've got one that will be coming back from the careers service soon , erm he 's supposed to be ringing tomorrow morning . |