Example sentences of "[v-ing] back from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chief Whip Richard Ryder anxiously counted the numbers of MPs trooping back from the lobbies . |
| 2 | Driving back from a game with fellow coloureds , he stopped at a white sports ground to watch a match played by members of the SACU . |
| 3 | ‘ I was driving back from a conference in Norwich , and I wanted to see the church in any case . |
| 4 | Love-making 's not easy when you 're driving back from an evening meeting in Cheltenham to reach London by 1.30am and you both have to be up early for work the next day . ’ |
| 5 | He was walking back from a Didcot Pub , when a gang set upon him as he took a short cut across a railway footbridge . |
| 6 | We 're walking back from the shops — me and Marie — and we stop for a bit to look at the lights in the electric shop . |
| 7 | While they were walking back from the Huddersfield discotheque , it suddenly dawned on Fred and Arthur that they had eaten three main meals that day instead of two . |
| 8 | so I was n't quite sure of the answer that you gave back with me walking back from the camera so I just wanted to qualify that so that , I mean all that I noticed was that there was nothing that , that , no information that you tried to get out of him . |
| 9 | Retail group GUS followed the market mood , climbing back from a 25p fall to end 12p higher at 1630p . |
| 10 | She had drifted unhappily around the estate , dragging her feet and shrinking back from the noisy pack of children which romped around the gardens . |
| 11 | They were shrinking back from the basement door . |
| 12 | As we were talking , out of the corner of my eye I could see Balvinder Singh stumbling back from the cooking-corner of the tent , holding a plate piled high with hot pakoras . |
| 13 | Of course , it was all too immediate , though some of us kept diaries , ; now we select and interpret looking back from a different Personal life and a very different political time . ) |
| 14 | Looking back from the late 1980s it seems that decentralization was not a clean break , nor was it a temporary aberration , since elements of both continue to exist side by side in the British settlement system . |
| 15 | They trod on this as they climbed ; looking back from the top , Carrie saw the marks of their rubber-soled shoes and felt guilty , though it was n't her fault . |
| 16 | Looking back from the eclectic seventies , the essentially post-sixties seventies , these youngsters of the fifties might well appear a deeply conventional , timid , duffle-jacketed wasp-waisted narrow-based crew , but to Alix , newly emerging from the all-too-personal matrix or patrix of The Heights , they had seemed richly various . |
| 17 | So , Slon , how do you feel about Zagrat , looking back from the freak time ? ’ asked the bimbo interviewer . |
| 18 | Looking back from the vantage point of the twentieth-century ‘ welfare state ’ we can also see , however , that every state , even when it has had a primarily repressive character , has also performed other necessary functions in the coordination and regulation of complex societies , especially through the development of a system of law , and in some cases — as with the Roman Empire — has had a generally civilizing influence . |
| 19 | Looking back from the 860s , Charles saw this as the direct result of divine intervention . |
| 20 | But now the men were sprinting back from the ramparts . |
| 21 | It was purchased on 4 August 1928 by a Mrs Green of Sydney , Australia , going back from a visit to Bishop 's Castle . |
| 22 | Burned by their experience of the volatility of the capital markets , many leading banks such as Bank of America and Lloyds are pulling back from the periphery of their systems to defend their home bases . |
| 23 | In the case of secular centres , most burghs had strips of land leading back from the market-place for burghers ' houses , vegetable plots and space for livestock . |
| 24 | He held his hand out to her , but Fran ignored it , brushing past him to head towards the door leading back from the deck . |
| 25 | Jimmy pulled the girl away with him , moving back from the outside wall , and the boards ; four feet above them at ground level . |
| 26 | The arrows in the drawing are moving back from the boundary of the information field to the centre . |
| 27 | The remainder of the analysis is carried out by ‘ rolling back ’ the decision tree , that is by moving back from the final pay-off figures , node by node , multiplying each pay-off by the probability of each event passed through in the network . |
| 28 | The remainder of the analysis is carried out by ‘ rolling back ’ the decision tree , that is by moving back from the final pay-off figures , node by node , multiplying each pay-off by the probability of each event passed through in the network . |
| 29 | Three days later I was limping back from the village and was about half a mile from home when I saw a movement in the hedge . |
| 30 | Three rugby fans who were flying back from a match in Dublin were killed in the accident . |