Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not the moment to go toddling back to the office to fart about over some fine print in sub-clause seventy-nine with a bunch of anal-retentives from Accounts . ’ |
| 2 | He even tried sneaking back to the library at night , thinking the Bookman might appear after dark , but had to stop this when he backed into Mr Crangle , who was up to the same thing . |
| 3 | Exhilarated Ian wanted to try walking back without the balancing pole . |
| 4 | FAR from the crowded Second Division title race , Blackburn goalie Bobby Mimms loves coming back to the peace of his home village in North Yorkshire . |
| 5 | ( He says ( Perople like their creature comforts and will enjoy coming back to the hotel ) |
| 6 | Then he tried smiling back at the serious-faced child , for this must surely be a tease . |
| 7 | The idea of going out in the garden to sit looking back towards the house was popular , as was the line of the path , laid in stock bricks in a colour best described as crushed strawberry . |
| 8 | The lesson , in my view is clear : neither to stand still and simply change leader ; nor , certainly , to go lurching back to the early 1980s , but to continue and intensify the process of change . |
| 9 | She must have sat alone there for a good quarter of an hour , singing to herself , before Henry and Lettice came crashing back through the woods , squealing that they had seen Humphrey and Janet and must take to the skiff at once . |
| 10 | Otley came tearing back down the stairs white as a sheet and put the mug of cocoa down on the table . |
| 11 | As the sun rose higher , shortening the shadows and drawing the dew from the grass , most of the rabbits came wandering back to the sun-flecked shade among the cow-parsley along the edge of the ditch . |
| 12 | All fords of the Esk , including Kirkandrews , were guarded on the English side by Graham peel-towers ; and though these would not be strong enough to hold up three thousand from crossing for long they could send warning back to the English authorities if so inclined . |
| 13 | She came stumbling back into the dining car followed by a commotion of people yelling behind her . |
| 14 | Memories came rushing back of the night when Johnny had described this room ; the night she had told him about the time hiccup . |
| 15 | At this moment , as if to give substance to the Collector 's fears , the Magistrate and two planters came running back along the outside of the Residency wall from the direction of the hospital . |
| 16 | Shelley too leaped to his feet , shrieking , and knocked his chair over , so that Mary came running back into the room . |
| 17 | As they stood looking and listening , the two boys who Renee had chased off the pillbox earlier , came running back towards the pub from the riverbank . |
| 18 | He came running back from the grave the day we reached here , saying someone had been tampering , and we could scarcely believe it . |
| 19 | Then he came roaring back down the road in a cold fury . |
| 20 | There was a yell , and then Burun came trotting back through the trees . |
| 21 | Saskia bent and retrieved her missile , then the Twins came pelting back to the ship . |
| 22 | If you put down the example I I actually marked the example but then I realized going back through the book that obviously the example was given for you there anyway . |
| 23 | ‘ I came to ask you to supper , ’ she babbled looking back into the drawing room . |
| 24 | Scots Wha Hae , which some may claim is another emotional dirge , has tremendous credentials ( tune going back to the 14th century and words by our national bard ) . |
| 25 | I wanted to buy some blades and socks , but most of all I wanted to avoid arriving back at the flat at the exact time she did , just in case Harvey should be angry at her disobeying him . |
| 26 | Deborah turned away from the signpost and began wading back through the deep undergrowth to the main path , intending to break into a run when she reached it ; but just as she turned off she heard a faint , distant , reedy cry , which stopped her in her tracks . |
| 27 | Using the same forthrightness as her brother , she took Hilary 's arm in a firm grip and began walking back to the house . |
| 28 | It was my turn to go to the bank for the wages and I remember going back to the shop saying King George VI had died . |
| 29 | He 's also begun to more fully explore the reasons he keeps going back to the mountains despite the terrible cost they have inflicted . |
| 30 | It 's a circular route all the time , it keeps going back to the town centre |