Example sentences of "[v-ing] back into [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 ‘ You can stay , ’ Tammuz said , walking back into the canteen .
3 ‘ They can be a devil , ’ Guido told her , climbing back into the driver 's seat .
4 Already the warriors were climbing back into the saddle .
5 Climbing back into the caravan , he said : ‘ A Jag has just passed .
6 ‘ Going about , ’ he shouted and watched in amazement the crazed proficiency of the little cocaine addict leaping back into the cockpit to winch the genoa sheet in .
7 I shouted , leaping back into the bedroom .
8 She came stumbling back into the dining car followed by a commotion of people yelling behind her .
9 Looking back into the past from the security of the present it is possible to pinpoint those elements which led to a change of viewpoint , the emergence of a new approach or a hasty retreat into well tried ways .
10 Towards the end of his life , Rackham wrote , ‘ As far as I can see , looking back into the past , it is not likely that the old Rackham book will ever come back ’ .
11 Her gaze distant , as though she was looking back into the past , she continued , ‘ It would n't have been easy , staying here , but I dare say we would have managed .
12 Looking back into the past , people are eager for an explanation to be given to them by Thames and I do think that people do n't feel that 's what they 've had so far .
13 Without looking back into the car he suddenly drawled in good English :
14 ‘ I came to ask you to supper , ’ she babbled looking back into the drawing room .
15 But hurrying back into the Chamber proved that the camera does not entirely lie .
16 Racing back into the hall with tails wagging furiously , they almost knocked Georgina over .
17 I reckon that at the very least , £1 million will be heading back into the game over the next 10 years thanks to the WRU 's shrewd deal in supplying Burton with 500 tickets for every Arms Park international , plus their cup final .
18 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 .
19 I was not going back into a situation where I only had myself to talk to .
20 The sky was now getting fairly light , and it would soon be stand-to , so there would be no going back into the trench to get the head down again .
21 In a separation section , the sludge is discharged , the clean sand going back into the system , so that the process of filtration is continuous and the " filter " is self-cleaning .
22 Hering stated that a cure should proceed : from above , downwards — from the head or upper regions of the body down towards the feet ; from within , out — from the internal organs out to the joints or skin ; from more important to less important organs — from the liver , heart or lungs out to the joints or skin ; from the present backwards in time — going back into the patient 's medical history .
23 Now what we have n't got to yet in this programme is what 's going back into the budget .
24 " Are you going back into the house , Wes ? "
25 Rochers town , we were only a short way and we went to this house , we were only young coppers , and we had this friend call on us and we looked out , he was going back into the car and he looked down the street and he said , my God there 's an awful lot of children around here , they must do nothing but screw all the time
26 This box is going back into the cupboard with the things that you want to keep .
27 I , I like the idea they 're gon na raise six hundred pound wherever they can , then all the money they raise , they can sell the books for is going back into the community .
28 The half-mortals followed him , going back into the Forest .
29 You may not feel that this is always necessary with designs that can be knitted automatically , since they will appear on screen in colour , but it is a great memory jogger and , rather then going back into the programme to look at a design , the colours and design may be seen from the printout .
30 I went out to the powder-room and as I was going back into the restaurant somebody tapped me on the shoulder .
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