Example sentences of "[v-ing] back [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went on , running where I could , and found him walking back towards me through the dayniter . |
| 2 | The postman was pedalling back towards them down the road . |
| 3 | On the narrow bridge he stood in front of her again , blocking her way , looking back past her at the House . |
| 4 | She slipped it off its hanger and held it against herself and it was almost as if the face looking back at her from the mirror across it was fourteen years old again . |
| 5 | Looking back at her from the mirror , with eyes like saucers , was a small , olive-green frog . |
| 6 | Which was worse — staying here for the night or going back with him to the hotel ? |
| 7 | I had caught an eider duck that had been sheltering on a lochan and was flying back with it against the wind when I grew tired . |
| 8 | He was clever at finding bargains , reporting back to her about the special offers , the cheaper lines . |
| 9 | So could I just in conclusion say please fill in your short questionnaire thank you for your attendance and I can assure you as Chairman of the trust what you said and the question 's you 've raised this evening will be looked at in great detail and we will be reporting back to you in the near future about the proposals that we wish to make . |
| 10 | When a few minutes later , amid the oohs and aahs from the three women , she stood and looked at the person staring back at her from the long mirror , she could n't believe it was herself . |
| 11 | The head man could get bitten , the tail man could get doused with noisome excreta — and if they both missed their grasp , then the middle man got both bad ends of the snake coming back at him at the same time . |
| 12 | These gloomy thoughts have kept coming back to me in the last few days in the national Art Library at the Victoria & Albert Museum , collecting reference material on all those women artists who should have been included in Gravity and Grace : the Changing Condition of Sculpture 1965–1975 at the Hayward Gallery . |
| 13 | You will have achieved very little if parents sort problems one at a time and keep coming back to you for the same advice for each one . |
| 14 | ‘ Look out , ’ she cried as tongues of flame blow-torched from the crevices around the bung and came licking back at us from the firebox . |
| 15 | Now he was standing back regarding them with the faintly anxious proprietorial air of a stallholder at a church bazaar wondering whether he has set out his wares to best advantage . |
| 16 | He would flow unchallenged through his role of the Gypsy Baron , his ego fed on the ripples of admiration seeping back at him from the auditorium . |