Example sentences of "[v-ing] back to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Deal with this fellow , will you , ’ said the Major , walking back to the trenches , annoyed at getting his polished boots muddy . |
| 4 | Walking back to the hotel , Rozanov and I were silent for a long time . |
| 5 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 6 | Heinrich and Martha were walking back to the Reach hand in hand . |
| 7 | Once , on a day of snow and melting slush , he was walking back to the Marylebone Road when the Asshe carriage passed by , with Johnny at the reins . |
| 8 | Walking back to the theatre that night , Noreen was extremely tense and said little . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Walking back to the end of the train , he found the guard standing on the track beside his brakevan . |
| 11 | You would n't catch me walking back to the house alone at night . |
| 12 | One day , I was walking back to the house , and had my camera with me . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Using the same forthrightness as her brother , she took Hilary 's arm in a firm grip and began walking back to the house . |
| 15 | He was just walking back to the house when the patrol car came storming up the drive , etching his shadow on the wall . |
| 16 | The next one in was always the one to worry about , not the player walking back to the dressing-room . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As he watched Melody walking back to the farm , deliberately exaggerating the swing of her hips for his benefit , Seb was thinking of Anna . |
| 19 | Then , walking back to the car , I started rehearsing what I 'd say to them , almost as if I were concocting my story . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | It seemed to be unable to stay underwater without bobbing back to the top . |
| 22 | I picture the old man hopping and pacing to his cottage , finding the paper , finding the passage , transcribing it , bobbing back to the club and slipping the note under my door , in order to set the record straight ; I find myself close to tears . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Looking back to the opening statement of the first article last month , we must remember that in the main we are thinking about these designs as decoration rather than as pure picture-making . |
| 25 | The view looking back to the station and 61094 — its departure was at 16.20 . |
| 26 | But looking back to the principles of Beveridge 's plan for welfare , one of the main conditions which the originators made , in order that a workable system might evolve , was that reasonably full employment be maintained . |
| 27 | Looking back to the period between the two world wars and even to that of 1939–45 , any newcomer to the scene would have foreseen nothing other than a future of amicable and mutually beneficial co-operation . |
| 28 | Cardiff pushed past , and now they were all heading down that corridor past the two elevators on their left ; still looking back to the reception doors lest that monstrous shadow should suddenly reappear . |
| 29 | Looking back to the start of the day , cold and frosty just about says it all . |
| 30 | But if film executives were to be believed , the majority of the audience was less interested in salving their fears about wars and conflicts ahead than in looking back to the time when Britain had a role to play in the world . |