Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [v-ing] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 2 | In the passage leading back to the northbound platform of the Northern Line they stopped in a corner , the man got out his mouth organ and the bear began to dance . |
| 3 | It was reported by a bloke down the hill coming back from the pub . |
| 4 | But the risk of rocket failure was considered too high , potentially bringing the radioactivity raining back into the earth 's atmosphere . |
| 5 | The Laurels was a very nice house on the edge of the town standing back from the road in a large garden . |
| 6 | going along the Kingsway coming back from the driv the driving test centre |
| 7 | Somehow , after half an hour , I was at the top looking back at the sign which warned ‘ Rapide Descente 300 metres ’ . |
| 8 | He left the hospital and began to walk slowly along the boulevard leading back to the centre of Perugia . |
| 9 | Llewelyn came to his feet with a leap that shook the chair jarring back across the floor-boards , and tumbled the scattered rolls of parchment to the rugs . |
| 10 | He held his hand out to her , but Fran ignored it , brushing past him to head towards the door leading back from the deck . |
| 11 | The knife clattered to the floor , and he threw in a right-hook to the jaw that sent the man reeling back against the counter , gasping , ‘ Pick it up , Mike — quick ! ’ |
| 12 | And er as I 've said before , I have n't seen a a barrel of oil burning and the heat and smoke that comes off that you consider the amount of oil that would have been in the separators on the platform at the time , I think it would have still have caused an awful lot of heat and an awful lot of smoke and fire , and er just shutting off the oil coming back to the platform maybe would n't have helped that much . |
| 13 | Investigations in the temple of Aphrodite , after whom the city was named , have revealed evidence ofa long history for the cult of the goddess going back to the sixth century ac . |
| 14 | The next one in was always the one to worry about , not the player walking back to the dressing-room . ’ |
| 15 | The view looking back to the station and 61094 — its departure was at 16.20 . |