Example sentences of "back towards [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Nodding thoughtfully , the Doctor made his way back towards the small group gathered round the screens . |
| 2 | Next moment , both men were out of the cab and sprinting back towards the blazing house . |
| 3 | There is a feeling that if the wording were changed to ‘ seeking to interfere with play ’ it would spare the player who is in an offside position but making a genuine attempt to stay onside by , for example , running back towards the halfway line . |
| 4 | She marched furiously back towards the front room , poured herself a glass of wine and downed it quickly . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh well then , I suppose it is not mine , ’ said Lady Selvedge grudgingly pushing the pudding back towards the young man , who then proceeded to eat it in a kind of defiant confusion . |
| 6 | Tallis mounted Swimmer of Lakes and returned to the south , kicking the horse , challenging it , urging it to run faster through the night , back towards the swirling zones of seasons . |
| 7 | ‘ We need to get back towards the Victorian days of discipline ’ says Dr Boyson in one of his attacks on ‘ permissiveness ’ , and he is certainly not alone among Tory fundamentalists in fondly remembering the glories of empire , child labour and workhouse in Queen Victoria 's reign . |
| 8 | Rebecque galloped back towards the Dutch battery , shouting at its Colonel to open fire on the concealed columns , but the Colonel was staring at one of his officers who had been killed by a skirmisher 's bullet . |
| 9 | so I thought he , he 's changing things he 's saying well I do n't think this is suitable and I do n't think my way of tackling this is suitable because he 's used to dealing with different kids , although they 're a similar age , they 're not very motivated or mighty but they 're more motivated than these kids , but he says like he 'll turned back towards the black board and he 'll be writing and they 're shouting abuse at him , F ing and blinding and he says it makes me so angry because I do n't know the voices well enough to know who 's saying it |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | Now , as from the times of childhood , she rode Fenna , seated in the deep hollow of the meeting place of scaled neck , veined wing and rising battlement of spine ; a throne protected from the great gale of his flight , as safe as the rocky cradle secures the foetal child , leaning back towards the bumpy spine as she had leant before , she gave herself over to their journey . |
| 12 | She glanced back towards the narrow terrace and said , ‘ It 's very nice . |
| 13 | ‘ Get out ! ’ the Doctor called , running back towards the inner door . |
| 14 | So we left the remote mountains of the north and west and headed back towards the central highlands and Mount Kenya , the main objective of our visit . |
| 15 | Staggering to her feet she looked back towards the wounded man ; he had slumped to the floor , and was trying to push himself back to a kneeling position . |
| 16 | During the early part of 1988 the focus of research gradually moved back towards the piezonuclear fusion . |
| 17 | Then he ran back towards the stack-yard gate . |
| 18 | He knelt there in the darkness , listening to the sounds of the subsiding passion in the room below , then swivelled silently and with even greater care than before , and feeling far more sober , moved back towards the thin , escaping light at the far end of the chill , cramped roof space . |
| 19 | They are heading directly back towards the hellish towers of Castle Drachenfels . |
| 20 | All had their sails up and all were looking out to the Solent , not back towards the red foils approaching them at 35 knots . |
| 21 | He is moving back towards the bad practice of selective tax shelters , which Mr Lawson had undermined in his five years as chancellor . |
| 22 | Popular American poetry of the period encouraged not only ‘ the coming together of East and West ’ , but also Vachel Lindsay 's attempts ‘ to carry … vaudeville form back towards the old Greek precedent of the half-chanted lyric ’ . |
| 23 | They were moderns , they must keep faith with their generation and not look back towards the old one . |
| 24 | Yeah were right then that might push us back towards the Platonic view , that some people are more . |
| 25 | The radical right mainly drifted back towards the Conservative party and only a small minority associated with the emerging fascist movement . |
| 26 | If the template veers off target , you may attempt to bring it back towards the original target . |
| 27 | It seemed that he had heard her , because there was silence again and Jinny turned back towards the little patch of bushes she was picking over . |
| 28 | Graham asked as they walked back towards the main Concourse . |
| 29 | The idea hit her like a thunderbolt and she spun round , heading back towards the main entrance , remembering that there was an enquiries desk there . |
| 30 | So she had been right about Rebecca after all , she thought as they walked back towards the main part of the house . |