Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] were [v-ing] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I believe myself today , at present day , the tramcars were coming back again , there would be , could be a way of resolving this matter of going onto different buses . |
| 2 | The day-trippers were recovering back at their hotel last night . |
| 3 | But he did not finish the all-but-spoken thought , for the words were sending back an echo from his own pages , the ones now in the hands of his agent . |
| 4 | They 'd just sunk that pit and they were starting to turn coal and the the the miners were straggling back to the new pit you see ? |
| 5 | The Gospels were turning back , out of John into Luke , out of Luke into Mark … and beyond … |
| 6 | Some of the officers were riding back to explain matters to their men , though since they knew little themselves their assurances were necessarily vague . |
| 7 | ‘ The memories were coming back . |
| 8 | The bombers were coming back . |
| 9 | The bass was booming , the vocals were feeding back , Emma 's guitar kept cutting out . |
| 10 | The girls were screaming back as the train pulled out and we got away from Khabarovsk without being arrested . |
| 11 | The girls were walking back under a glorious moon to the holiday complex of Monte Samana , where they were sharing Rosie 's parents ' villa . |
| 12 | Then , on a sunny day in April , when the bees were visiting the hedgerows and the robins were flying back and forth with their beaks full of moss and feathers , she came down from Roscarrock Hall humming to herself without a serious thought in her head — when suddenly , as she rounded a corner , there was Tristram , his face sun-tanned , his shirt open and his dark brown hair thick and tangled round his face . |
| 13 | The pupils were coming back from lunch for their afternoon sessions . |
| 14 | Some of the men were firing back , but blindly . |
| 15 | But now the men were sprinting back from the ramparts . |
| 16 | It would have been , he said , late in the morning when the men were coming back . |
| 17 | He had never forgotten the day in the bide shed when Nutty had told him the horses were going back to the knacker 's , and the fearful panic that had exploded inside him , worse than any brushes with the police or his father , worse than anything he could ever remember . |
| 18 | The droids were pulling back . |
| 19 | Already the warriors were climbing back into the saddle . |