Example sentences of "were [v-ing] back [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , when we were driving back towards the tunnel , do you know Upper Parliament Street ? |
| 2 | Heinrich and Martha were walking back to the Reach hand in hand . |
| 3 | ‘ Thank you for a lovely meal , ’ she said , when Vitor had settled the bill and they were walking back along the quay . |
| 4 | As we were walking back through the garden to the house , he said to me , ‘ Jane , you 've had a strange night . |
| 5 | On the contrary , when that afternoon 's session ended and we were walking back across the campus , he put one of his Anglepoise arms across my shoulders and attempted some avuncularity . |
| 6 | Then we were walking back towards the carriage , and as we passed I heard Mr Jonesy say to the preacher , ‘ I 'll give 'im the devil when I get 'im 'ome . ’ |
| 7 | They were shrinking back from the basement door . |
| 8 | Already the warriors were climbing back into the saddle . |
| 9 | He doffed his cap as we marched past , and a few paces further on we negotiated the turn and were heading back along the road on the other side of the village green towards the saluting base . |
| 10 | La Dolce vita had turned unimaginably sour and it was not long before the Italian stallions were heading back to the English First Division . |
| 11 | Tillard and Royal Marine Lt. R.C. Hay , spotted another Z.506B as they were heading back towards the carrier , and attacked . |
| 12 | Neighbours said they were going back to the country . |
| 13 | ‘ We were going back to the hotel when it happened . |
| 14 | He had never forgotten the day in the bide shed when Nutty had told him the horses were going back to the knacker 's , and the fearful panic that had exploded inside him , worse than any brushes with the police or his father , worse than anything he could ever remember . |
| 15 | It did not matter that they were going back to the house of the Scarabae . |
| 16 | At the official launch of the the new Countrywatch campaign the area 's police chief said bobbies were going back on the beat in rural areas . |
| 17 | The men paused in their tracks , locating the sound , and within seconds we were hurrying back to a place that we 'd passed where the sheer slope of the mountain was broken only by the deep rift of a water-course . |
| 18 | You know , erm , you know what sort of gross salary and you know and there was , you were holding back in a way erm tt and why you did n't wan na discuss your hobbies you know where you were losing it |
| 19 | She saw the building that Adolph Brückner had looked at on his arrival that day , the pain in his head threatening like the thunder clouds that were drifting back over the mountain tops . |
| 20 | Three rugby fans who were flying back from a match in Dublin were killed in the accident . |
| 21 | Three rugby fans who were flying back from a match in Dublin were killed in the accident . |
| 22 | Because when we were coming back from the park at er , no not the park where was we ? |
| 23 | An NCO clutching a grenade marched up to the barrier and Kahane told him that they were coming back from the front and were in a hurry . |
| 24 | One evening when they were coming back from the hunt , he pretended to be someone else and , all alone , jumped on Albuin pretending that he was going to steal by violence the horse Albuin was mounted on . |