Example sentences of "[v-ing] back [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could see the prisoners looking back at the two bodies in the centre of the carnage ; there was a lot of blood now , spreading in pools . |
| 2 | He turned his head , looking back at the six T'ang standing amongst the pillars , watching him . |
| 3 | Looking back on the twenty-five years of fostering children , is there any one memory that stands out for you ? |
| 4 | Like most girls of my generation , I managed to graduate from High School with my virginity intact , ’ wrote Janet Harris looking back on the Fifties in The Prime of Ms America . |
| 5 | Looking back over the two games we made it extremely difficult for ourselves in Moscow . |
| 6 | Looking back from the 860s , Charles saw this as the direct result of divine intervention . |
| 7 | In the example given , the College 's close relationship with the catering industry , covering conventional day-release , specialist courses and demonstrations , and extensive work experience dating back to the 1960s had given the mutual confidence and understanding which made an unconventional pattern worth trying . |
| 8 | The series , which features unseen film dating back to the Twenties , celebrates the 70th anniversary of the discovery of the tomb by archeologist Howard Carter . |
| 9 | Milton 's God was Empson 's last book , in his lifetime , though when he died he was collecting at least three others : Using Biography ( 1984 ) , on Marvell , Dryden , Fielding , Yeats , Eliot and Joyce ; Essays on Shakespeare ( 1986 ) ; and a book of Renaissance essays , as well as a massive ragbag ( as he called it ) of papers and reviews dating back to the 1920s which , when it posthumously appeared as Argufying ( 1987 ) , was rapidly seen by many to be the finest critical miscellany in the language . |
| 10 | There were plenty of examples of performances which fall into this category in cinematographic history , most notably those of James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart dating back to the Thirties , and the more lovably roguish role , in Bogart 's case , in The African Queen . |
| 11 | I have some limited sale documents dating back to the 1920's when the Wyresdale Estate was broken up and properties sold . |
| 12 | Prest ( 1967 ) concluded that this system was successfully grounded in procedural tradition dating back to the 1860s . |
| 13 | This case relied on law dating back to the 1870s . |
| 14 | The train will be the Ffestiniog 's Vintage Train , made up of the oldest vehicles on the railway , some dating back to the 1860's . |
| 15 | The company participates in nearly a score of such ventures , some of them dating back to the 1930s . |
| 16 | The joint BPXM-Pemex team has set about the task ahead of them by cataloguing a mass of seismic , well and production data , much of it dating back to the 1930s . |
| 17 | A : Classique Tours of Paisley ( 041 889 4050 ) runs fascinating tours taking in the Hebridean Islands , Royal Deeside or the Borders , using comfortable , small , classic buses , many dating back to the 1950s and 60s . |
| 18 | And in the library there is a more recent collection of men 's pin-up books dating back to the Fifties . |
| 19 | ‘ In no way are we going back to a 1979-80 recession . |
| 20 | The conditions are made up of a myriad of separate agreements , some going back to the 1920s . |
| 21 | Sure enough , there is observational evidence of such clusters going back to the 11 000 nebular objects listed in J. L. E. Dreyer 's New General Catalogue , in the 1890s , long before Hubble 's discovery of their true nature . |
| 22 | There is , of course , a long history of research into uses of relevance information in In systems , going back to the 1960s , but it only appears to have been used in one online catalogue : CITE , at the National Library of Medicine . |
| 23 | Going back to the six months one erm where you 've fifteen thousand |
| 24 | But going back to the 1944 triptych , you called it a base for the Crucifixion . |
| 25 | There will be an exhibition of early American Esquires , going back to the 1930s . |
| 26 | Apparently people are even going back to the fifties contraceptives ! |
| 27 | It 's all a bit like going back to the Fifties , when TV 's role was to entertain and inform in equal measure . |
| 28 | My parents collected all their copies of Wimpey News and we have back numbers going back to the 1940s . |
| 29 | Then , turning back to the two boys , she added . |
| 30 | Unable to accept again the superstitions he had discarded , nevertheless with time and misfortune he found himself turning back to the three deities who had guided his early life , and helped him through his harsh apprenticeship as a scribe : the reasonable Thoth , ibis-headed , god of the scribes ; Horus , son of Osiris ; and the protector of the hearth , Bes — the little god of his childhood . |