Example sentences of "[v-ing] back [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they set off she realized they were n't driving back towards the restaurants of the town centre and Willi 's beloved Franz Joseph hotel , but up to the mountain road that led over the pass and into the next valley . |
| 2 | Walking back to the end of the train , he found the guard standing on the track beside his brakevan . |
| 3 | ‘ You come near me , Preacher , and I 'll kill you , ’ I said , shrinking back towards the protection of the crowd . |
| 4 | As we were talking , out of the corner of my eye I could see Balvinder Singh stumbling back from the cooking-corner of the tent , holding a plate piled high with hot pakoras . |
| 5 | When she was most irritated by Caro 's holier-than-thou , most nearly offended by how stupid/insensitive Caro must think her , with her ‘ what a world you live in ’ , and was thinking ‘ How young , how predictable , how limited you are , ’ came the twist in the conversation , the unexpected note , that looking back along the line of the conversation , was the note Caro had been heading for all the time . |
| 6 | But looking back to the principles of Beveridge 's plan for welfare , one of the main conditions which the originators made , in order that a workable system might evolve , was that reasonably full employment be maintained . |
| 7 | Looking back to the start of the day , cold and frosty just about says it all . |
| 8 | Looking back to the Constitution of 1884 which [ Dicey ] was analysing … |
| 9 | Now to the final part in our series ’ Twenty-four Square Miles ’ looking back at the film of the same name and the lives of the country people it chronicled . |
| 10 | Looking back at the variety of studies conducted on plants in the little field at Henfaes , I feel little temptation to explain the behaviour of organisms within it as perfectly fitted for adaptive optima in an ideally evolved ecosystem . |
| 11 | Looking back at the works of Marx and Engels so far examined we can see that these leave a fairly clear picture concerning some topics , and major uncertainties concerning others . |
| 12 | ‘ But I ca n't resist looking back at the history of rock and having this addiction to the great pop music that 's been made , whether it 's T-Rex or Blondie . |
| 13 | William Gallacher , looking back at the activity of the Women 's Peace Crusade in Glasgow at the end of 1917 , put the same point : ‘ … if you have the women with you there are no heights to which you can not rise . ’ |
| 14 | Looking back at the decade of 1965–75 , which Bacon and Eltis consider critical for the economic health of the country , one can see that there was no shortage of labour because unemployment increased during this period . |
| 15 | Looking back at the tape of the test , I can see my nervousness . |
| 16 | Looking back at the face of the bank , they could see that it was in fact dotted thickly with martins ' holes . |
| 17 | Looking back at the town of Lourdes from the esplanade , you have an excellent view of its one historical monument : the fortress , set high on a rock above the river . |
| 18 | Looking back at the start of the day — cloudy again , folks , as if you needed reminding . |
| 19 | A schools ' video and a book are being produced , looking back on the history of the LGC . |
| 20 | It was rather pathetic , like an ageing colonel looking back on the days of Empire . |
| 21 | Caught inextricably in that cycle , with pregnancies to confuse and exacerbate the situation , Elizabeth Titford 's body finally gave up the struggle in June ; with tragic inevitability , we might be tempted to say , looking back with the advantage of hindsight . |
| 22 | For Mignon it often meant more and her coworkers realize , looking back with the wisdom of a long lifetime , that she wanted a lesbian relationship with more than one of them . |
| 23 | Now , looking back with the wisdom of adulthood , she could appreciate what she had taken for granted at the time . |
| 24 | For a moment Berdichev was quiet , looking back down the well of years to that earlier time . |
| 25 | Part of a coffee grinder is also understood to have been found in the house along with newspapers dating back to the beginning of May . |
| 26 | I explain that this is due to an old charter , dating back to the time of Sir Hugo de Courcy Rune , third earl of Penge . |
| 27 | The objects offered in the present sale have been culled from ‘ [ secret ] warehouses dating back to the start of the Revolution in 1949 and also from the time of the Cultural Revolution ’ . |
| 28 | It is a building of great age dating back to the end of the 12th century , or the beginning of the 13th , the actual date of its building has been lost , but Fielding gives us a clue in his records by naming the first Chaplain as Michael de Painton , before 1319 , and William de Kucklestane Chaplain of St. Lawrence 1319–44 and also of Dode , so it seems that Upper Hailing shared a Minister these many years ago . |
| 29 | The Association has a long history ( dating back to the end of the last century ) , and the ESRC funded project will complement existing work on the period before 1946 . |
| 30 | ‘ What is true , ’ writes mason investigator Stephen Knight , ‘ is that the philosophic , religious and ritualistic concoction that makes up the speculative element in freemasonry is drawn from many sources — some of them , like the Isis-Osiris myth , dating back to the dawn of history . |