Example sentences of "[v-ing] back [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he visits La Famiglia before driving back up the King 's Road and on to the Caprice . |
| 2 | Then I started walking back up the field . |
| 3 | Doreen had walked out into the dark hall suddenly , and seen him walking back up the passage away from the kitchen door . |
| 4 | A few moments later they passed Gilberto walking back up the hill to the place where he had left his own car , just below the massive wall of the columbarium in the cemetery where Ruggiero Miletti had been interred two hours previously . |
| 5 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
| 6 | Then he was climbing back up the bank he had slithered down and I watched as he walked in a leisurely fashion across the slope of the mountain to the gully . |
| 7 | Delaney tore himself away , going back up the stairway that was the only way out , and back in the direction that the creature was coming . |
| 8 | A ‘ clow ’ was a flap-valve to stop flood-water rising back up the ditches at high tide . |
| 9 | She met Bill coming back up the steps , and they did not waste time on speech . |
| 10 | She heard him coming back up the stairs , she knew his limping step now . |
| 11 | The strength of the sound wave coming back up the rod depends on how much acoustic energy is absorbed by the material at the microscope 's focal point . |
| 12 | Lamb allowed too much for the ball going across him , and dragged one that was coming back off the pitch onto his leg stump from side off . |
| 13 | And there was a little pump-house , with a pipe running back up the cliff . |
| 14 | His hands dropped from her shoulders , and he did not speak , merely took her hand and pulled her after him , striding back up the path at a rapid pace so that she was hard pressed to keep up . |