Example sentences of "[v-ing] back [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Driving back from a game with fellow coloureds , he stopped at a white sports ground to watch a match played by members of the SACU . |
| 2 | ‘ I was driving back from a conference in Norwich , and I wanted to see the church in any case . |
| 3 | Bobo ran to the back of her cage and Fifi had to scamper out of the way to save herself from being trampled , and then Bobo was storming back with a handful of straw and dung which she hurled at Donaldson before slamming herself into the bars and screaming loudly as they shook . |
| 4 | Both approaches are reflected in the report to annual parent meetings and both require a looking back at a school 's achievements in order that differences or improvements can be headlined . |
| 5 | It always seems odd , looking back on a turning-point in life , that bells did not ring and warning hooters go . |
| 6 | Just finally looking back over a career that spans now five decades , is there anything you 'd have done differently over the years ? |
| 7 | On June 10 he detailed a tortuous series of corrupt dealings between Papandreou and himself allegedly dating back to a threat made in 1985 by Papandreou 's Pasok party to nationalize the Bank of Crete . |
| 8 | The panic was receding again , physical need surging back with a vengeance . |
| 9 | For three whole days she 'd blanked out the memory of that kiss they 'd shared , but now it came flooding back with a vengeance , hot and strong and so seductively real that she could have wept for shame . |
| 10 | The men paused in their tracks , locating the sound , and within seconds we were hurrying back to a place that we 'd passed where the sheer slope of the mountain was broken only by the deep rift of a water-course . |
| 11 | And lying back with a smile , he glances over towards the colour TV in the corner of the room . |
| 12 | Women clapped with glee as the princess entered the centre and an elderly woman lying back in a dentist 's chair with her mouth wide open burst into applause as the princess approached . |
| 13 | Apart from the porter , who was now heading back to a door marked Waiting Room , the platform was bare . |
| 14 | Perhaps we are heading back in a full-circle towards the days of Victorian philanthropy — Back towards the days before state provision when organisations like Barnardos , the Salvation Army and the C.O.S. were the dominant providers . |
| 15 | Sometimes , she would stare at them as they were talking and they would grow smaller and smaller , like a genie going back into a lamp . |
| 16 | I was not going back into a situation where I only had myself to talk to . |
| 17 | Next time , we 're going back with a record player and a Thin Lizzy record , we 're going to plug it in and when he asks what the hell we 're doing , we 'll say , ‘ Just listening to that Les Paul on the wall there ! ' ’ |
| 18 | You 're not going back for a month ? |
| 19 | It 's exciting ; going back together and going back to a country which hopefully is changing . |
| 20 | Dr Jan Hulsker had told him that after Vincent 's departure from The Hague , Sien had given custody of the baby Willem to her brother , Pieter Hoornik , before going back to a life of casual prostitution and drink . |
| 21 | We 're going back to a kind of rating system with the different assessment on valuations |
| 22 | These are abused young children going back to a parent and troubled adolescents returning home from residential care . |
| 23 | and that is also why , going back to a point earlier on , why I think erm counselling and alternative medicine , and so on , is marginalized it would be such a rock to the social order to actually acknowledge that people are in distress because it 's the social order that 's causing that distress . |
| 24 | I normally make a note of the palette number and list the yarn names , along with the manufacturers ' colour names or numbers for each of the eight colours , in a book and find this is a great help when going back to a palette later , or when looking for a palette containing certain yarn colours . |
| 25 | and she said that 's just not the way it 's done , so she she saying to him now , if you da if you wet yourself once more you 're going back in a nappy . |
| 26 | It was purchased on 4 August 1928 by a Mrs Green of Sydney , Australia , going back from a visit to Bishop 's Castle . |
| 27 | How many people now remember his humiliation as chancellor of the Exchequer , turning back on a trip to Heathrow en route for a meeting of the International Monetary Fund in order that he could draft an application for a loan from the same organisation , then appearing in the Blackpool bear garden to be publicly abused ? |
| 28 | Corbett rose from his stool and sent it flying back with a crash . |
| 29 | Three rugby fans who were flying back from a match in Dublin were killed in the accident . |
| 30 | Three rugby fans who were flying back from a match in Dublin were killed in the accident . |