Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] back [adv prt] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A ‘ clow ’ was a flap-valve to stop flood-water rising back up the ditches at high tide . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And there was a little pump-house , with a pipe running back up the cliff . |
| 5 | She met Bill coming back up the steps , and they did not waste time on speech . |