Example sentences of "[v-ing] back [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Then , walking back to the car , I started rehearsing what I 'd say to them , almost as if I were concocting my story . |
| 32 | On the contrary , when that afternoon 's session ended and we were walking back across the campus , he put one of his Anglepoise arms across my shoulders and attempted some avuncularity . |
| 33 | Walking back across the fields , he suggested that they stop by the lake on the way . |
| 34 | Walking back down the field the cruel injustice of the thing bore down on me increasingly . |
| 35 | Walking back down the hill by hole 17 the pockets of rough grass left by the edge had common spotted and pyramidal orchids together with yellow rattle , quaking grass and other chalk grassland flowers . |
| 36 | ‘ You can stay , ’ Tammuz said , walking back into the canteen . |
| 37 | Walking back through the jungle I thankfully did n't come across any trap-door spiders but as dusk fell I was entranced by a cluster of trees which were suddenly lit up like Christmas trees by the thousands of glow-worms out for a night of passion . |
| 38 | Walking back through the park , and carefully holding the children 's hands as they crossed the busy road , Laura found it almost impossible to ignore her friend 's sly suggestion . |
| 39 | She was on her way home from a party … walking back through the city to her lodgings at Somerville college a few hundred yards from the Memorial . |
| 40 | As we were walking back through the garden to the house , he said to me , ‘ Jane , you 've had a strange night . |
| 41 | She stood for several moments in front of the altar before turning away and walking back towards the door . |
| 42 | With his much-abused parcel still under his arm , he started walking back towards the city . |
| 43 | Then we were walking back towards the carriage , and as we passed I heard Mr Jonesy say to the preacher , ‘ I 'll give 'im the devil when I get 'im 'ome . ’ |
| 44 | It was obvious that she could n't go into the Rose Bowl until she had calmed down , so instead she started walking back towards the flat . |
| 45 | Exhilarated Ian wanted to try walking back without the balancing pole . |
| 46 | He was walking back from a Didcot Pub , when a gang set upon him as he took a short cut across a railway footbridge . |
| 47 | While they were walking back from the Huddersfield discotheque , it suddenly dawned on Fred and Arthur that they had eaten three main meals that day instead of two . |
| 48 | so I was n't quite sure of the answer that you gave back with me walking back from the camera so I just wanted to qualify that so that , I mean all that I noticed was that there was nothing that , that , no information that you tried to get out of him . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | Walking back alongside the canal again was familiar and reassuring . |
| 51 | We noticed now a trail of well-trodden snow winding back towards the shore , obviously a route known to be safe by the experienced locals . |
| 52 | This is not the moment to go toddling back to the office to fart about over some fine print in sub-clause seventy-nine with a bunch of anal-retentives from Accounts . ’ |
| 53 | Now Marc Alexander Vila moved closer , and she found herself surreptitiously pressing back against the stone wall of the turret room she and Peter had been allotted , trying to pretend she did n't care while her breath went ragged with apprehension . |
| 54 | ‘ They can be a devil , ’ Guido told her , climbing back into the driver 's seat . |
| 55 | Already the warriors were climbing back into the saddle . |
| 56 | Climbing back into the caravan , he said : ‘ A Jag has just passed . |
| 57 | There was a silence , while Hector , climbing back on the bed , nuzzled at her free hand . |
| 58 | Retail group GUS followed the market mood , climbing back from a 25p fall to end 12p higher at 1630p . |
| 59 | ‘ You come near me , Preacher , and I 'll kill you , ’ I said , shrinking back towards the protection of the crowd . |
| 60 | They were shrinking back from the basement door . |