Example sentences of "[to-vb] back [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She started to walk back up the winding little street , away from the beach , through the tiny town and up towards the complex . |
| 2 | She turns and begins to wobble back up the aisle . |
| 3 | After checking that the two mirror carp were well packed in newspaper , he curled his arm around Molly 's waist and they began to stroll back up the track . |
| 4 | Marion Aluinn , smiling , turned to go back up the beach , caught her foot and staggered . |
| 5 | Small numbers of aphids and other soft-bodied insects can be quickly rubbed off plants , while a forcible spray from a hose-pipe will disperse larger colonies , few of the insects surviving to climb back up the plant . |
| 6 | As McHale said , they must try to climb back up the table but an end-of-season clear out could be a good idea . |
| 7 | She turned , her throat constricted now , her heart pounding in her breast , and began to run back up the slope towards the cottage . |
| 8 | Cardiff fired blindly into the roaring , shrieking mass as he began to scramble back up the stairs . |
| 9 | The name of the Russian General Suworow keeps coming up in this region because of the marches made by the army he brought up from Italy into Switzerland in 1799 during the Napoleonic Wars , forcing the Gotthard Pass against bitter French resistance , but later driven to retreat back up the Muota valley when the French blocked his path at the passage of the Schlattli bridge . |
| 10 | He had lifted her into his arms before she could protest , although in truth she hardly felt in any condition to trek back up the incline towards the barn . |
| 11 | But then the majority of hill-walking is done in less than satisfactory weather , and somehow , no matter how foul and inclement it is , you can not wait to get back up the hills and do it again . |
| 12 | He would be lucky to get back up the companion . |
| 13 | Llacen , Hussein and Omar turned their mules to head back up the Nfis . |