Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [v-ing] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | From above , this is a surreal sight — a dozen Canutes holding back a flesh ocean . |
| 2 | But despite a minor stoppage outside splendid sunlit Durham , you could feel the power of the new class 91 locomotives clawing back at the clock on the run in to Newcastle . |
| 3 | Cos that was only just ten minutes going back . |
| 4 | Now I listen to there , I do n't listen as often now unless there 's something big on , and you hear them , you know , check on , whatever it is , your vehicle check and I have seen them as little as five seconds coming back and saying who owns that car |
| 5 | I am especially pleased to welcome JCI back as a shareholder , a position they held from 1918 until 1979 , cementing the close relationship between our two companies dating back to the last century . |
| 6 | Erm there 's nine hundred statements coming back in today but the units team that you all kindly lent me , we 're all gon na sort through those and stuff them in envelopes and get them out the door . |
| 7 | We spent two days travelling back to Royston with a guide who was as tired of us as we were sick of him . |
| 8 | No it 's not well it 's Mummy 's at the moment but there 's two ladies coming back to collect it tonight . |
| 9 | In her rear-view mirror she saw the two men hurrying back towards the administration block . |
| 10 | The ambulance arriving at the gates of the hospital , two men heaving back the great iron gates . |
| 11 | The memoirs of four men sitting back in The Garrick , perhaps . |
| 12 | Some are originals from the 2 million documents dating back to the early 1600s which are stored in the Hydrographic Office , and some are sophisticated copies made from the originals used 50 years ago . |