Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [v-ing] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arrows in the drawing are moving back from the boundary of the information field to the centre . |
| 2 | Relegation followed , and the hopelessly over-stretched club were sliding back towards the Fourth Division when Toshack resigned in 1984 . |
| 3 | Bigwig was racing back across the field , looking more agitated than he had at any time since the encounter with Captain Holly . |
| 4 | The ageing NI team is looking back on the key events of the last decade of the millennium . |
| 5 | Vocals went straight down with only the minimum of top end EQ to keep them sharp , and when I went for the final mixdown I have to say I was amazed at how big a sound was coming back from the monitors . |
| 6 | She was the first to get to get to know about the lady whose husband was coming back from the Forces . |
| 7 | Bénezet was sauntering back to the guesthall with his gleanings , when he observed Brother Jerome rounding the box hedge from the garden , head down and in a hurry . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Shadwell was leaning back against the wall and Eva was angry with him , making hard gestures with her fists . |
| 10 | Old Coffin is going back to the sherry table . |
| 11 | 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 : |
| 12 | But the chair was sliding back towards the table , back to the closeness of conspiracy and friendship . |
| 13 | Almost immediately it became clear that the river was kicking back at the abuse it was receiving . |
| 14 | Pete and Mum were coming back from the shops . |
| 15 | This box is going back into the cupboard with the things that you want to keep . |
| 16 | Typically Market Maker the Harvard Securities newsletter , at a time when unemployment figures had reached the 3 1\2 million level , presented this rosy view of the City : " The prospect of stronger cashflow has meant the reintroduction of brandy and cigars after lunch ; Beluga caviar is creeping back onto the menu ; pension fund managers … are starting to hail taxis again , and the other afternoon in Throgmorton Street I actually heard a Blue Button whistling " |
| 17 | Having got rid of its international stores chain with the spin-off of InterTan Inc , Tandy Corp is heading back into the international market again and says it expects to open a second SuperCenter store in Stockholm , Sweden in the third quarter ; the company already operates a third SuperCenter in Copenhagen . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | When my parents ' generation were marrying back in the 1920s not everyone had cars and the best man 's responsibility was to organize transport for all the guests . |
| 20 | Wycliffe was looking back down the slope , over the gorse towards the trees and beyond , to another clump of trees where the slender grey spire of the church rose above them . |
| 21 | It 's part of more than two million pounds seized from international drug traffickers that the Home Office is pouring back into the campaign against drugs . |
| 22 | A renowned rock guitarist is going back on the road with a new band , ten years after leaving the group that made him famous . |