Example sentences of "[v-ing] back [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I was driving back from a conference in Norwich , and I wanted to see the church in any case . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Bobo ran to the back of her cage and Fifi had to scamper out of the way to save herself from being trampled , and then Bobo was storming back with a handful of straw and dung which she hurled at Donaldson before slamming herself into the bars and screaming loudly as they shook . |
| 5 | Boniface was looking back to an age in which the privileges of the churches of the Anglo-Saxons had been untouched and inviolate , or so it was thought , and he saw this age as ending — as he tells Aethelbald — in the time of Ceolred , king of the Mercians , and Osred , king of the Northumbrians ( both of whose reigns ended in 716 ) , whom Boniface accuses of behaving as Aethelbald was now doing and as a consequence of which they both perished miserably . |
| 6 | Both approaches are reflected in the report to annual parent meetings and both require a looking back at a school 's achievements in order that differences or improvements can be headlined . |
| 7 | It always seems odd , looking back on a turning-point in life , that bells did not ring and warning hooters go . |
| 8 | When the twelfth-century bard , Cynddelw , recalled ‘ the clash of Powys … with Oswald ’ , he was looking back on an episode which had considerable significance not only for the Welsh but also for the Mercians . |
| 9 | Just finally looking back over a career that spans now five decades , is there anything you 'd have done differently over the years ? |
| 10 | On June 10 he detailed a tortuous series of corrupt dealings between Papandreou and himself allegedly dating back to a threat made in 1985 by Papandreou 's Pasok party to nationalize the Bank of Crete . |
| 11 | The panic was receding again , physical need surging back with a vengeance . |
| 12 | United came bouncing back with an equaliser at the start of the second half . |
| 13 | For three whole days she 'd blanked out the memory of that kiss they 'd shared , but now it came flooding back with a vengeance , hot and strong and so seductively real that she could have wept for shame . |
| 14 | The men paused in their tracks , locating the sound , and within seconds we were hurrying back to a place that we 'd passed where the sheer slope of the mountain was broken only by the deep rift of a water-course . |
| 15 | And lying back with a smile , he glances over towards the colour TV in the corner of the room . |
| 16 | Women clapped with glee as the princess entered the centre and an elderly woman lying back in a dentist 's chair with her mouth wide open burst into applause as the princess approached . |
| 17 | Apart from the porter , who was now heading back to a door marked Waiting Room , the platform was bare . |
| 18 | Perhaps we are heading back in a full-circle towards the days of Victorian philanthropy — Back towards the days before state provision when organisations like Barnardos , the Salvation Army and the C.O.S. were the dominant providers . |
| 19 | Sometimes , she would stare at them as they were talking and they would grow smaller and smaller , like a genie going back into a lamp . |
| 20 | I was not going back into a situation where I only had myself to talk to . |
| 21 | Next time , we 're going back with a record player and a Thin Lizzy record , we 're going to plug it in and when he asks what the hell we 're doing , we 'll say , ‘ Just listening to that Les Paul on the wall there ! ' ’ |
| 22 | You 're not going back for a month ? |
| 23 | It 's exciting ; going back together and going back to a country which hopefully is changing . |
| 24 | Dr Jan Hulsker had told him that after Vincent 's departure from The Hague , Sien had given custody of the baby Willem to her brother , Pieter Hoornik , before going back to a life of casual prostitution and drink . |
| 25 | We 're going back to a kind of rating system with the different assessment on valuations |
| 26 | These are abused young children going back to a parent and troubled adolescents returning home from residential care . |
| 27 | and that is also why , going back to a point earlier on , why I think erm counselling and alternative medicine , and so on , is marginalized it would be such a rock to the social order to actually acknowledge that people are in distress because it 's the social order that 's causing that distress . |
| 28 | I normally make a note of the palette number and list the yarn names , along with the manufacturers ' colour names or numbers for each of the eight colours , in a book and find this is a great help when going back to a palette later , or when looking for a palette containing certain yarn colours . |
| 29 | There can be no going back to an age when dealing with child abuse was a grave but minor aspect of a child care worker 's caseload , exciting little public interest . |
| 30 | I want to begin by going back to an argument that Aristotle put forward in the Ethics , since I think that the point at which his argument breaks down can illuminate the nature of the problem some feminist thinking has faced . |