Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would n't catch me walking back to the house alone at night . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This resistor absorbs the network signals and stops them bouncing back down the wire . |
| 4 | The company participates in nearly a score of such ventures , some of them dating back to the 1930s . |
| 5 | Unable to accept again the superstitions he had discarded , nevertheless with time and misfortune he found himself turning back to the three deities who had guided his early life , and helped him through his harsh apprenticeship as a scribe : the reasonable Thoth , ibis-headed , god of the scribes ; Horus , son of Osiris ; and the protector of the hearth , Bes — the little god of his childhood . |
| 6 | Kāli and her cousin , Jit , were at the far end of the roof waving their arms , keeping the sheep contained at one end only , stopping them going back down the steps at the other side . |
| 7 | so , erm , they rang and they rang , and they rang for a good twenty to twenty five minutes and we just erm , we , we all huddled together in the living room , and erm , anyway about half an hour went past , and then they finally went , we saw them , we live in a flat , and we saw them from the window , we saw them going back to the station you see . |
| 8 | ‘ You goin' back to the digs , Noreen ? ’ |
| 9 | " Perhaps I should have let that precious mother of yours catch you sneaking back into the house . " |
| 10 | ‘ Are you going back to the hotel ? ’ |
| 11 | " Are you going back into the house , Wes ? " |
| 12 | I saw you coming back from the communion rails , with your eyes down and your hands folded , as if you were n't putrid inside , but I know . |
| 13 | You leaning back on the chair were n't you ? |
| 14 | All the time she prayed in desperation that the constables would discover something incriminating back in the flat : perhaps letters from Zbigniew or Tatyana Nowak , bloodstained gloves , she did not care . |
| 15 | For a few seconds they encouraged the dogs to sniff and lick the blood — to reaffirm their hunting instinct — then , shouting and waving their arms , they sent them scurrying back to the shadows to wait for bones and other bits of debris . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , over one hour later she found herself lying back against the pillows and staring up at the ceiling , completely unable to go to sleep . |
| 17 | And neither am I ! ’ he growled , moving threateningly towards her , so that Robyn found herself retreating back against the wall . |
| 18 | She eased her sticking back from the car seat up to a cafe where a boy with slanting eyes and a towel tied round his waist wiped a table clean for them , then shook a filthy cloth over it with a flourish . |
| 19 | Spencer by now was n't very pleased , Elstree were n't very thrilled about him landing back on the runway either , and with the hydraulic fluid gone , there were no flaps either . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't see him going back to the Council , ’ Dann said banteringly . |
| 21 | The shock and force of it sent her reeling back against the wall once more . |
| 22 | He listened to it , trying to will her to the phone ; imagining her coming back to the flat after being out ; she might hear the phone from the street … now she would put the key in the lock … now running up the stairs … now dashing in , dripping , short of breath , to grab the receiver … now … now . |
| 23 | A vision of the other woman 's mocking green eyes very nearly sent her running back to the safety of her own room , but having come this far she was determined to see this thing through , come what may . |
| 24 | Do you think there 's any chance of him coming back for the opening of — ? ’ |
| 25 | Now I see him coming back in the middle of the afternoon , with , I hope , a railway sandwich or two inside him , apparently not in the least put out at being employed as a busboy . |
| 26 | At lunchtime Desmond had n't been able to place his usual bets because she 'd sent him haring back to the digs to see if an urgent letter had arrived . |
| 27 | A sudden movement or an abrupt noise will send them skittering back to the safety of the water . |
| 28 | First I pulled the great ladder away from the tower , sending it crashing back into the trees . |
| 29 | So it was with some trepidation that I put forward the idea of his leaping back into the West End , twenty years after he 'd gratefully left it . |
| 30 | The joint BPXM-Pemex team has set about the task ahead of them by cataloguing a mass of seismic , well and production data , much of it dating back to the 1930s . |