Example sentences of "[verb] back [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt for a pulse then , letting the gunman 's arm drop , he holstered the Browning before walking back slowly towards the doors . |
| 2 | On walking back home from the church , I found myself thinking very deeply about what I had let myself in for , but foremost what my wife would say , I seem to recall something like ‘ I suppose that 's my lace bobbins even further down the work sheet . ’ |
| 3 | I peered back ruminatively into the pen . |
| 4 | Our other major domestic market , the distilling industry has come back strongly from the low levels of production of the early 1980s and appears full of optimism , if the huge rise in the share prices of quoted distilling companies is a fair yardstick . |
| 5 | The patient improves for a time , say an hour or more , then either stops getting better and the picture becomes more or less static , or begins to slip back again with the same symptoms . |
| 6 | Both sides have a point to prove Saints that they can bounce back quickly from the Bradford disappointment ; Leeds that they are on a consistent run of wins . |
| 7 | The skill of the lawyer existed in ensuring that the relationship between the statements in his legal discourse was such that it would lead to a legal outcome which would translate back directly into the outcome chosen by the client as formulated in his or her own , non-legal discourse . |
| 8 | Cameron and Menzies were squeezed back nearly into the house , and big Mary , finding herself hard up against Menzies , took his arm , cleared a space with a sideways butt of her hip , and twirled once round with him . |
| 9 | The national assembly , up to only a certain period of time , according to the constitution , and then again the parliament has to come back again into the picture . |
| 10 | He said that an English sergeant who acted as orderly in the ‘ cooler ’ had told him this , and that he had promised to come back later in the day with some cigarettes for us . |
| 11 | We 're planning to come back later in the year for a full week at least . |
| 12 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 13 | Then the corridor bent to the side to accommodate four enclosed double bedrooms and bent back again through the centre of open seating with sleeping curtains , called sections . |
| 14 | Mobuto recoiled in horror , stumbling back painfully into the Studebaker 's wing mirror . |
| 15 | There were in France some memorable new stations : a group like Noyon ( 1929 ) and Deauville ( 1930 ) in a sturdy Norman provincial style with half-timbering , heavy roof-beams , a steep ridge-and-furrow roof and dormer windows ; Rouen 's Gare de l'Ouest ( 1928 ) with an elegant arched frontage , an elaborate clock-tower , and twin statues supporting the central pediment , presenting a stylized refinement of fin de siècle forms ; the Gare des Bénédictins , Limoges ( 1923 ) , with its dome , rounded rowers , and half-naked statuary , looking back defiantly to the ornate voluptuousness of the vanished pre-war courtesans . |
| 16 | It is probably best to take this piece seated , to suggest a character looking back reflectively at the events recalled . |
| 17 | ‘ Looking back now to the time when the site for these premises was chosen , and realising the state of affairs existing in this type of works , it is surprising to me that this process was ever permitted on this site at all ( being figuratively speaking within arms length of the dwellings ) . |
| 18 | One mother of two small children arrives back later in the afternoon looking ashen . |
| 19 | Boxall and Tierney came back strongly in the second game , but the Blackmoor pair pulled away at 7–5 up to take the game 15–7 . |
| 20 | City came back strongly in the second with two goals in five minutes . |
| 21 | Who went to the end of the street , nevertheless , and came back briskly on the impetus of her need , her decision . |
| 22 | She came back slowly towards the house . |
| 23 | Environmental , turned out immediately that we telephoned them to say there was a flood in on the , and they were ex extremely fast and very efficient , and they came back later in the day when the Highways Authority still had n't erm responded to our calls . |
| 24 | I think it just came back here for the milk and then it 'll be away . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , I came back here to the apartment and Rico 's not home . |
| 26 | Although the break was a nasty one , McCracken came back successfully at the beginning of 1921–22 when the Palace made their debut in Division Two and he played more games for us in that division than anyone else during our four year tenure there 1921–25 . |
| 27 | He came back smartly to the office and the desk on which he was leaning . |
| 28 | A phrase came back uncomfortably from the white-out , ‘ the sorry jeste of Life ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ And there I was waiting for you , in such a state ever since Kukrit came back late from the airport and said he 'd missed you , ’ Jeremy replies , suggesting with automatic but irrelevant chivalry that they are lovers separated from their tryst with one another . |
| 30 | Lydia drove Betty to the Village Hall in the evening and drove back alone into the sudden shadow of the hill behind the cottage . |