Example sentences of "[adv] and [v-ing] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would see broken cups gathering themselves together and jumping back onto the table . |
| 2 | It 's exciting ; going back together and going back to a country which hopefully is changing . |
| 3 | She stood for several moments in front of the altar before turning away and walking back towards the door . |
| 4 | Anneka Patel , of Cypriana Holidays , said yesterday : ‘ He will be back on the cruise ship tonight and arriving back into Cyprus tomorrow morning to continue his holiday . |
| 5 | As they stepped out from behind the tree , a figure , walking rapidly and glancing back over his shoulder , stepped off the pavement a few yards up and came at them on a collision course . |
| 6 | I have been using the playhouse for about ten years now and going back to the point that someone made earlier about sex well about erm racism sexism is does n't that count as censorship . |
| 7 | So leaving the Zande again and moving back to our own cultural tradition at the time of St Augustine of Hippo ( 354–430 ) , we find the public orators and professors of late antiquity understandably fearful lest their memories might be stolen by witches . |
| 8 | She looked a trifle dazed and who could blame her , but after a minute or so she was on her feet again and tottering back towards the playground . |
| 9 | While the preparatory drafts , drawn up in Rome before the Council opened and very largely rejected by the fathers , had made heavy use of scholastic terminology and not much of Scripture — as was generally characteristic of pre-conciliar theology — the Council almost systematically reversed this , eliminating scholastic terms again and again and falling back on biblical ones . |