Example sentences of "[v-ing] back and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some time later , when they were walking back and approaching her apartment block , Luke touched her elbow lightly , startling her , since he had been avoiding physical contact with her all day . |
| 2 | It 's like looking back and reflecting , with a certain wisdom that maybe the cliché of rock'n'roll does n't address . |
| 3 | Looking back and seeing him trudging so patiently and you catch up , I can show you where Dad and I took the hare . ’ |
| 4 | He sat there for quite a while , grinning at her , then looking away , then looking back and grinning at her again . |
| 5 | Looking back and sorting out are essential if we are not to experience the pantomime dame 's discomfort . |
| 6 | ‘ It is a trick of memory , looking back and thinking maybe things were n't that bad , but of course , if you concentrate , you realize they were . |
| 7 | Other parts of the book deal with the last things on a global scale , both looking back and looking forward . |
| 8 | ‘ If we get in front we wo n't make the same mistake of lying back and letting them in as we did in Belfast , ’ said captain and centre back Alan McDonald ( Queens Park Rangers ) . |
| 9 | She decided to use it , adding a generous amount of her favourite scented oil to the water gushing into the bath before lying back and letting the warm water soothe her weariness and tensions away . |
| 10 | The child 's cognisant acts have the character of perceptions : if an act is done it can not be undone ( ‘ reversed ’ in the jargon ) and so there is no going back and taking another perspective on the question or practical problem . |
| 11 | Erm , and we , we find although Amnesty does run er door to door collection which we are always encouraged to join in which we never have , which is I think always in June , in June now , it 's good time , it 's a good time of year for it , but that means going round putting envelopes in doors , going back and collecting them , the arguments on the doorstep about Amnesty , er going back again if people are not in and we , we as a , relatively small group covering a very big area we , we have n't felt able to do that , and we actually find that by standing in the street with each person having a tin for one or two hours , we can do quite well that way and er , that 's , that 's . |
| 12 | Oh going back and get these sweaty socks off . |
| 13 | Exactly , that 's what I 'm doing , I 'm doing it that way , I 'm doing the basics , which will get the marks and I 'm doing , going back and adding extra little sods when I 've finished it oh God |
| 14 | That 's how it happens , all those improvisational sections coming out — me forgetting what I played on albums and not going back and re-learning it . ’ |
| 15 | No , but I really feel like going back and putting my feet up and chatting to you a bit more , cos we have n't chatted enough have we ? |
| 16 | And he says well , I can wait till tomorrow , better than going back and coming again . |
| 17 | Lawrence feels like going back and saying to her ‘ It 's all right , do n't take any notice of that mental lunatic ’ ( p. 304 ) , thereby offering a new inflection of the erotic triangle : intervening between Swift and Celia , Lawrence displaces his own anal neurosis on to Swift while offering his healthy ideal self to Celia — or rather he seeks to become his ideal self in her eyes . |
| 18 | And they were in this grotty council house now and they go back and they said and you saw them going back and saying look at the state of the garden . |
| 19 | you 're you 're going back and saying |
| 20 | She thought of going back and finding it all different , the old contentment shattered … and she knew she could n't bear that . |
| 21 | I was terrified of knocking on the door of the house to ask permission but I was even more terrified of going back and making a fool of myself because of my ignorance on court so I spent the rest of the afternoon skulking behind the sweet peas . ’ |
| 22 | Erm so your confidence goes , your speed at working through it goes , you might find you 're going back and doing it again when it was right then first time . |
| 23 | She walked towards it , pulling back and ducking under the prickling runners of a giant bramble that had overspread the path . |
| 24 | Daughter then gets up , goes to door of box and propels mother into box , mother pulling back and protesting . |
| 25 | If the nose is dropping in spite of pulling back and hitting the back stop , this is a clear indication that the glider is stalled , and a forward movement is needed for a few seconds to let the wing unstall . |
| 26 | My immediate thought was that Frankenstein had encounted a bear , and might at any moment come dashing back and discover me . |
| 27 | Keep a note of the whereabouts of each item and institute a regular system for calling back and collecting items which have been loaned out . |
| 28 | ‘ Good , ’ said Ben , moving back and taking up the oars again . |
| 29 | Sam recovered in the third set from 1–3 to lead 5–4 , but she was unable to close out the match against a tough opponent who rarely deviated from her game plan of staying back and slugging it out from the baseline . |
| 30 | ‘ I have seen him play a little bit more to the net than normally , but I would say that he has much more confidence staying back and playing long rallies . |