Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] back to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few minutes later , Sir Thomas was walking slowly back to the Imperial Hotel in advance of the main party . |
| 2 | The first thing she saw , though , was Julius walking slowly back to the house . |
| 3 | She had been walking slowly back to the terrace doors with him jogging at her elbow . |
| 4 | This technique has been around as a possibility for these machines for years , dating right back to the very early 1970s and the S42 , or ‘ peg-board ’ machines . |
| 5 | They have been around for a very long time , as I said , dating right back to Model Book 35 in fact , which appeared in 1982 . |
| 6 | And over the past few days it had developed an infuriating habit of wandering unerringly back to the subject of Adam Burns . |
| 7 | ‘ Demonstrate , Nicholson , ’ Mr Foggerty said hopefully , but Nicholson demonstrated by swimming away back to the deep end , mostly underwater where he was hard to see . |
| 8 | In post-war years MI5 has been remarkably unsuccessful at catching spies and traitors in our midst , going right back to Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean who in the summer of 1951 defected under the noses of MI5 despite supposedly being under surveillance . |
| 9 | ‘ Going way back to 1911 . ’ |
| 10 | Scientists , just like former communists , are going joyfully back to church . |
| 11 | Try to counter nervousness by getting right back to basics . |
| 12 | In only a very few pages , we have left the twentieth century far behind and discovered that these two descend from the Lombardic heroes mentioned in the Old English poem Widsith ( Aelfwin and Eadwin ) ; and since Aelfvin means ‘ Elf-friend ’ , we are not surprised to find ourselves drifting further back to the times when elves still walked the earth , before Numenor ( the Atlantis of the Tolkien mythology ) had sunk beneath the waves . |
| 13 | As he walked up beside the 17th Patrick met O'Grady trudging disconsolately back to the tee to play a second ball . |
| 14 | By the same token , however , they may now be tacking fitfully back to growth while Germany and , to a lesser extent Japan , linger in relative doldrums . |
| 15 | The Zeneca shares started at 700p in the ‘ grey ’ market , but now are in danger of slipping right back to the 600p price before the closing date of June 21 . |
| 16 | She British ladies withdrawing , after their dinner from the frozen stores of English food flown into the Embassy shop , to powder their noses before flowing eagerly back to their men sipping brandy on the terrace under trees prodigal with flame-of-the-forest blossoms . |
| 17 | ‘ You may count on that , ’ he said suavely , his eyes flicking briefly back to Mandy . |
| 18 | Technically ‘ an anal escape of wind , especially if audible ’ , the fart has a literary pedigree stretching right back to Chaucer . |