Example sentences of "[v-ing] back [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Thank you for a lovely meal , ’ she said , when Vitor had settled the bill and they were walking back along the quay . |
| 9 | She had been walking back along the track , head bent , deep in thought . |
| 10 | Walking back to the hotel , Rozanov and I were silent for a long time . |
| 11 | Heinrich and Martha were walking back to the Reach hand in hand . |
| 12 | Walking back to the theatre that night , Noreen was extremely tense and said little . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Walking back to the end of the train , he found the guard standing on the track beside his brakevan . |
| 15 | You would n't catch me walking back to the house alone at night . |
| 16 | One day , I was walking back to the house , and had my camera with me . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Using the same forthrightness as her brother , she took Hilary 's arm in a firm grip and began walking back to the house . |
| 19 | He was just walking back to the house when the patrol car came storming up the drive , etching his shadow on the wall . |
| 20 | The next one in was always the one to worry about , not the player walking back to the dressing-room . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As he watched Melody walking back to the farm , deliberately exaggerating the swing of her hips for his benefit , Seb was thinking of Anna . |
| 23 | Then , walking back to the car , I started rehearsing what I 'd say to them , almost as if I were concocting my story . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Walking back down the field the cruel injustice of the thing bore down on me increasingly . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ You can stay , ’ Tammuz said , walking back into the canteen . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |