Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [be] [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 | According to Mr Litman , the veterans are delving back into their memories to produce new information on Glenn Michael Souther , the US Navy spy and defector who committed suicide in Moscow ; events such as the assassination of Leon Trotsky and details of Soviet femmes fatales in espionage . |
| 10 | The bass was booming , the vocals were feeding back , Emma 's guitar kept cutting out . |
| 11 | The locals are turning back to wildlife and natural resources to survive . |
| 12 | The girls were screaming back as the train pulled out and we got away from Khabarovsk without being arrested . |
| 13 | The girls were walking back under a glorious moon to the holiday complex of Monte Samana , where they were sharing Rosie 's parents ' villa . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The pupils were coming back from lunch for their afternoon sessions . |
| 16 | Some of the men were firing back , but blindly . |
| 17 | But now the men were sprinting back from the ramparts . |
| 18 | It would have been , he said , late in the morning when the men were coming back . |
| 19 | But a ferry over to Claonaig on the mainland of Argyll runs from Lochranza in the summer and the tourists are coming back . |
| 20 | But it 's always better , it 's not , coming in cos then all the tourists are coming back |
| 21 | The activity itself encourages reflection ; the children are thinking back over what has happened and making important decisions in selecting the key moments . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ The droids are coming back . ’ |
| 24 | The droids were pulling back . |
| 25 | Already the warriors were climbing back into the saddle . |
| 26 | but er , that is the trouble , half of these are not been put in properly and the fumes are coming back over |
| 27 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 28 | But the recession has meant the studios are cutting back , so instead of keeping his planes on the ground , he 's making his own flying thriller . |