Example sentences of "be [v-ing] back to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The happy landowner can then stand at the window smoking a pipe and wave cheerily at the unwelcome hill-walkers , secure in the knowledge that in a few minutes they will be heading back to the car , steam gently rising from them as they blink in distress from behind grisly face-masks of dung . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | He had tricked her , deliberately let her think that they would be going back to the hotel , but if he thought she was going to meekly go along with his conniving then he was going to be sadly disappointed . |
| 4 | And erm I think we 'll be going back to the kind of erm conditions that there were in the Victorian age and in Dickens ' age . |
| 5 | ‘ I had no doubt that I would be going back to the university , ’ he says from his home in Princeton , New Jersey . |
| 6 | By right and custom , he himself and James here should be going back to the house for the reading of the will , but this very new Sir Joseph had made it evident yesterday that he wanted no reading done in the house and that he would let them know when he wanted the matter dealt with . |
| 7 | ‘ Now I really ought to be getting back to the apartment . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The Archbishop seems to be harking back to the politics of guilt and the socialist faddism of yesteryear . ’ |
| 9 | Er in relation to King Street er car park , there are there are complications in relation to er the usage of the car parking spaces erm and the health centre and on street car parking erm and we are going to do er further work in surveying the usage of those spaces and how we could perhaps better allocate them to ensure that there are erm spaces available for people who need to get to the surgery and the subcommittee will be reporting back to the council . |
| 10 | Moreover one of them was bound to be reporting back to the Questore , and since there was no way of finding out which he would have to keep them all busy if he was to do what Bartocci had asked . |
| 11 | He did n't know why he was saying these words ; deep down he knew that he should be running back to the truck and getting the rescue organized . |
| 12 | it seems a bit strange though , cos I mean , indirectly we seem to be giving back to the community . |
| 13 | Tomorrow , Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire will be travelling back to the summer of nineteen forty . |
| 14 | They come out of the heart and branch like a wishbone , one to each lung , do you see that , now the arrow direction is away from the heart and that 's a vein and you 'd expect that to be coming back to the heart would n't you ? |
| 15 | I think we 're almost certainly guaranteed to get the S L O's back into the fold although bearing in mind the recent developments with the C P O's it 's unlikely that they will be coming back to the fold . |