Example sentences of "[v-ing] back [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chief Whip Richard Ryder anxiously counted the numbers of MPs trooping back from the lobbies . |
| 2 | As they set off she realized they were n't driving back towards the restaurants of the town centre and Willi 's beloved Franz Joseph hotel , but up to the mountain road that led over the pass and into the next valley . |
| 3 | ‘ Deal with this fellow , will you , ’ said the Major , walking back to the trenches , annoyed at getting his polished boots muddy . |
| 4 | Walking back across the fields , he suggested that they stop by the lake on the way . |
| 5 | We 're walking back from the shops — me and Marie — and we stop for a bit to look at the lights in the electric shop . |
| 6 | Otley came tearing back down the stairs white as a sheet and put the mug of cocoa down on the table . |
| 7 | But looking back to the principles of Beveridge 's plan for welfare , one of the main conditions which the originators made , in order that a workable system might evolve , was that reasonably full employment be maintained . |
| 8 | You may , looking back at the stories about those two ( and you should have read them , twice over ) think they are no more than high old eccentrics bright enough to solve intriguing cases . |
| 9 | Donna slid behind the wheel of the Volvo and sat there for a moment , looking back at the ruins . |
| 10 | And then , looking back at the pictures — sharp , full of insight , yet somehow slightly flashy — he wondered whether , indirectly , they did n't give him the best notion he yet had got of Walter Machin himself . |
| 11 | It is introduced by looking back at the events which took place at Navron through the eyes of a ‘ trespasser in time ’ observing the memories that still haunt the place after Dona and the others have been and gone . |
| 12 | Looking back on the elements I have enumerated — of change , internationalism and achievement — I do not find it so surprising that I chose an industrial career , although I knew nothing of all this when I joined ICI . |
| 13 | Thus County Armagh Free Presbyterians , looking back on the explosives cases and the charges laid against Free Presbyterians , recollected that far from supposing these people might be guilty and hence in need of church discipline , they assumed their innocence and believed that the charges were just another part of the plot to discredit Paisleyism . |
| 14 | Erm looking back on the photographs . |
| 15 | It was rather pathetic , like an ageing colonel looking back on the days of Empire . |
| 16 | Furthermore one can perhaps see the solution to which Tolkien , in his philological way , was drawn , namely to present the First Age as ‘ a complex of divergent texts interlinked by commentary ’ ( UT , p. 1 ) , the texts themselves being supposedly written by Men , of different periods , looking back across the ages to vast rumours of whose truth they knew only part . |
| 17 | This can be checked by looking back through the arguments . |
| 18 | I 'd got a troublesome cough developed , and now looking back through the years , er it would have been a sort of hay-feverish condition that I I have been a bit bothered with . |
| 19 | We have taken various risks looking back over the years , like Wapping . |
| 20 | Looking back over the years , the initial aim of creating awareness has been substantially achieved . |
| 21 | Looking back over the years at the relative strengths of Japan versus the US in the semiconductor industry — a polarisation that will always make the news in Japan — during the 1970s , the US had an advantage , Grove said , which faded in the 1980s when Japanese manufacturing disciplines , just-in-time and its clearly superior semiconductor manufacturing equipment led to the Japanese gaining the upper hand , particularly in memory chips . |
| 22 | Indeed , looking back over the years , I have become surprised , not that people murder each other but that , given our love of bloodshed , they do n't do it more often . |
| 23 | Anyway , looking back over the years I can imagine what that poor bastard at Smithfield felt . |
| 24 | The horse reared , ’ Maggie said miserably , sinking back to the pillows as she remembered what Candace had said , and he nodded seriously . |
| 25 | There is a tradition here , dating back to the days of ‘ Go-Go County ’ , of First Division embarrassment if not failure but Rangers survived the early onslaught and , before an all-ticket 5,997 crowd on a clear mild night , emerged as worthy winners on aggregate after a goalless draw . |
| 26 | People did broadcasts , and if they wrote books , or gave talks on books , these books were all to be found in the BBC Library , along with a fine technical collection and an unrivalled political section , dating back to the days when Guy Burgess ran their first Parliamentary programmes . |
| 27 | After violent storms the haul will often include valuable items dating back to the days when drowned sailors on the local beach was commonplace . |
| 28 | ‘ Of course , Taiwan has a Portuguese connection dating back to the days when it was Formosa , but you wo n't have found any opportunity to air it these days . |
| 29 | Dinmore Manor is on the site of a Knights Hospital dating back to the days of the crusades . |
| 30 | With the briefest of intros emanating from somewhere in the swathe of dry ice , The Bunnymen arrived to polite applause and tore into a set devoid of any material dating back to the days of Ian McCulloch . |