Example sentences of "[v-ing] back [prep] [art] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would n't catch me walking back to the house alone at night . |
| 2 | so I was n't quite sure of the answer that you gave back with me walking back from the camera so I just wanted to qualify that so that , I mean all that I noticed was that there was nothing that , that , no information that you tried to get out of him . |
| 3 | Walking back alongside the canal again was familiar and reassuring . |
| 4 | An example of presentation infidelity , uncovered in our survey , was where companies showed a series of columns sloping back towards the right away from the common baseline of the X axis . |
| 5 | Spencer by now was n't very pleased , Elstree were n't very thrilled about him landing back on the runway either , and with the hydraulic fluid gone , there were no flaps either . |
| 6 | But if film executives were to be believed , the majority of the audience was less interested in salving their fears about wars and conflicts ahead than in looking back to the time when Britain had a role to play in the world . |
| 7 | Looking back to the time when she could n't find reverse on her company car , Alison contrasted this with her new job responsibilities : ‘ Now I 'm driving over 2,500 miles a month , much of it spent on the M25 . |
| 8 | ‘ So what do we do ? ’ asked Jimmy , looking back at the cabinet where it was wedged tight at the office door . |
| 9 | Looking back on the period when he was seriously searching as a fourteen-year-old ( and for a man with a mind of Russell 's breadth this was no ‘ mere adolescence ’ ) , he described it like this : |
| 10 | I thought the plan had failed when , looking back on the hill there , I saw him in the valley . |
| 11 | ‘ Looking back on the time when I was really big , around 1979 , I was the saddest and most miserablest I 've ever been . |
| 12 | He also thinks it is important to build such a museum , as Japan and Britain have a long historical relationship dating back to the seventeenth-century when William Adams came to Japan on a Dutch ship . |
| 13 | It was breathtakingly beautiful , but the sheer drop left them with no option but to make their way into the forest to bypass the hazard before heading back to the river again . |
| 14 | I was not going back into a situation where I only had myself to talk to . |
| 15 | and that is also why , going back to a point earlier on , why I think erm counselling and alternative medicine , and so on , is marginalized it would be such a rock to the social order to actually acknowledge that people are in distress because it 's the social order that 's causing that distress . |
| 16 | I normally make a note of the palette number and list the yarn names , along with the manufacturers ' colour names or numbers for each of the eight colours , in a book and find this is a great help when going back to a palette later , or when looking for a palette containing certain yarn colours . |
| 17 | Going back to the beginning again . |
| 18 | I 'm going back to the cottage now . |
| 19 | On going back to the airstrip later I found several Pacific golden plover with the greys . |
| 20 | I 'm going back to the thing about erm and boys and |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm going back to the studio tonight . |
| 22 | It was n't any use going back to the shop now ; she would phone Myra , then she would get down to designing the bridesmaids ' dresses that would match the bride 's gown she was commissioned to make for a big wedding in the autumn . |
| 23 | Because , going back to the point earlier on , erm , when I was taught I say , it was a local nurse from th er , the clinic that taught us I mean I 've nothi , nothing against elder women in their fifties and whatever , but I mean , there again , one , it should n't always be females who teach about sex , it should be males , and it should be younger people to relate |
| 24 | Alright now I just wonder if it might be worthwhile just some people going back to the classroom now or some stay or ? |
| 25 | Alec overheard the conversation , and said , ‘ I 'm going back to the house now , Kit . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | Memories came rushing back of the night when Johnny had described this room ; the night she had told him about the time hiccup . |
| 28 | I ca n't recall the routes up which I was dragged , but what I do remember is strolling back to the car under one of those hazy , purple , Peak District sunsets , contentedly weary and glowing with achievement — only to find that thieves had struck . |
| 29 | If you do find that you have recorded an unsatisfactory shot , cut your losses there and then by reversing back to the beginning so that you can over-record with something better before continuing with the rest of the shoot . |
| 30 | Swail 's hopes of getting back in the match virtually disappeared when he lost the first frame of the final session . |