Example sentences of "[v-ing] back [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The garrison , in spite of everything and without the assistance of the Collector , continued to labour between one downpour and the next to prevent their walls of mud from oozing back into the plain from which they had been dug , but the number of men available to wield a shovel had suddenly begun to decrease alarmingly . |
| 2 | And , when we were driving back towards the tunnel , do you know Upper Parliament Street ? |
| 3 | ‘ I thought they 'd gone off my land and started driving back to the house but then suddenly felt a sharp pain in my back . |
| 4 | Driving back to the house through the small back-roads was more difficult than she 'd anticipated , and she took a couple of wrong turnings . |
| 5 | Driving back in the dark , Roland and Maud communicated in brief businesslike bursts , their imaginations hugely busy elsewhere . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I was driving back from a conference in Norwich , and I wanted to see the church in any case . |
| 8 | Love-making 's not easy when you 're driving back from an evening meeting in Cheltenham to reach London by 1.30am and you both have to be up early for work the next day . ’ |
| 9 | The waterfall , however , is a hundred yards downriver and is best reached by walking back along the road for fifty yards to the end of a wall , where a step down in the undergrowth discloses a good path high on the river bank above a deep gorge , the waterfall soon being seen through a canopy of foliage . |
| 10 | A coastal walk with several variants : do the whole coastal stretch , looking round inland and finishing at the visitor centre for the bus back , or start a shorter walk from Coldingham ( walking back along the road or taking the bus ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Thank you for a lovely meal , ’ she said , when Vitor had settled the bill and they were walking back along the quay . |
| 12 | She had been walking back along the track , head bent , deep in thought . |
| 13 | Walking back to the hotel , Rozanov and I were silent for a long time . |
| 14 | Heinrich and Martha were walking back to the Reach hand in hand . |
| 15 | Walking back to the theatre that night , Noreen was extremely tense and said little . |
| 16 | The woman had left the bags and O saw she was walking back to the child , he heard her heels , but O did not stay to see what she did to the child ( and so he did not see her pick the child up in her arms and hold him tight ) ; he turned quickly , and left the station as fast as he could . |
| 17 | Walking back to the end of the train , he found the guard standing on the track beside his brakevan . |
| 18 | You would n't catch me walking back to the house alone at night . |
| 19 | One day , I was walking back to the house , and had my camera with me . |
| 20 | There were several messages for her when she arrived back at the hotel , and she worked at her desk until six before walking back to the house through the gathering dusk . |
| 21 | Using the same forthrightness as her brother , she took Hilary 's arm in a firm grip and began walking back to the house . |
| 22 | He was just walking back to the house when the patrol car came storming up the drive , etching his shadow on the wall . |
| 23 | The next one in was always the one to worry about , not the player walking back to the dressing-room . ’ |
| 24 | Walking back to the club that night and recalling old Martin 's letter , I began to understand some of the qualities that make a successful courtier . |
| 25 | As he watched Melody walking back to the farm , deliberately exaggerating the swing of her hips for his benefit , Seb was thinking of Anna . |
| 26 | Then , walking back to the car , I started rehearsing what I 'd say to them , almost as if I were concocting my story . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Walking back down the field the cruel injustice of the thing bore down on me increasingly . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ You can stay , ’ Tammuz said , walking back into the canteen . |