Example sentences of "[v-ing] back [adv] [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 | Loose oxygenators can be removed altogether , keeping back just a few rooted cuttings for the following spring . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Looking back nearly a decade later , many might feel that the principle emerging from the Committee 's recommendations as most important for consumers was that consumer credit , whatever its apparent form , should be subject to one single system of regulation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He strode on , pausing at the bottom of the meadow , looking back up the slight incline towards the barn . |
| 13 | Our limited perception of time has difficulty in imagining events and cycles dating back just a hundred years , yet archaeologists have germinated and grown wheat from grains four thousand years old , discovered in the tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The harbour town of Watchet has a history going back over a thousand years and is still an active trading port . |
| 16 | We had last met over a year ago , when I went over to Paris to see an exhibition of the most wonderful Boucheron jewellery going back over a hundred years . |
| 17 | It had been at one time , going back over a hundred and fifty years , it had been what they called a combination poorhouse . |
| 18 | is sort of going back quite a bit |
| 19 | Certainly over the years the the major proportion of our fire fighting , in terms of secondary fires , what we term secondary fires , the bonfires , was always concentrated around this period and going back quite a few years we used to have special appliances put on standby , extra crews and so on . |
| 20 | A ‘ clow ’ was a flap-valve to stop flood-water rising back up the ditches at high tide . |
| 21 | Here , cars are reversing back up a slip road because the way ahead is blocked . |
| 22 | The child involved the mother at home in the project by hunting out scraps of fabric , discussing what they were , then bringing back home the finished house . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She heard him coming back up the stairs , she knew his limping step now . |
| 25 | She met Bill coming back up the steps , and they did not waste time on speech . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And there was a little pump-house , with a pipe running back up the cliff . |
| 28 | just then they saw the lights come hurtling back up the rough track towards them . |
| 29 | It has n't been much of a week for my wife either ; she now sees little prospect of winning back even a beefburger space in the deep freeze . |
| 30 | 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 . |