Example sentences of "[v-ing] back [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Then he visits La Famiglia before driving back up the King 's Road and on to the Caprice . |
2 | Then I started walking back up the field . |
3 | Doreen had walked out into the dark hall suddenly , and seen him walking back up the passage away from the kitchen door . |
4 | A few moments later they passed Gilberto walking back up the hill to the place where he had left his own car , just below the massive wall of the columbarium in the cemetery where Ruggiero Miletti had been interred two hours previously . |
5 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
6 | Then he was climbing back up the bank he had slithered down and I watched as he walked in a leisurely fashion across the slope of the mountain to the gully . |
7 | Climbing back up the one in 4 gradient requires extraordinary reserves of stamina as well . |
8 | She was enclosed in a darkness where ignorance had no answers and she had no questions ready to ask — wandering back up the empty driveway , kicking a loose stone for company , on this bright and gloomy morning . |
9 | Ben was standing several paces from his father , looking back up the grassy slope to where they had set up arc lamps all around the cottage . |
10 | He strode on , pausing at the bottom of the meadow , looking back up the slight incline towards the barn . |
11 | Delaney tore himself away , going back up the stairway that was the only way out , and back in the direction that the creature was coming . |
12 | A ‘ clow ’ was a flap-valve to stop flood-water rising back up the ditches at high tide . |
13 | Here , cars are reversing back up a slip road because the way ahead is blocked . |
14 | The strength of the sound wave coming back up the rod depends on how much acoustic energy is absorbed by the material at the microscope 's focal point . |
15 | She heard him coming back up the stairs , she knew his limping step now . |
16 | She met Bill coming back up the steps , and they did not waste time on speech . |
17 | Lamb allowed too much for the ball going across him , and dragged one that was coming back off the pitch onto his leg stump from side off . |
18 | And there was a little pump-house , with a pipe running back up the cliff . |
19 | just then they saw the lights come hurtling back up the rough track towards them . |
20 | His hands dropped from her shoulders , and he did not speak , merely took her hand and pulled her after him , striding back up the path at a rapid pace so that she was hard pressed to keep up . |