Example sentences of "back across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , we shuddered back across the waves toward a weary homeward haul . |
| 2 | Placing the bagpipes in my rucksack I made my way back across the green to the orchard , expecting a summons at any moment to appear before Shimi Lovat . |
| 3 | As we journeyed back across the Orne bridges , I looked around at the happy faces in the truck ; up until now , there had n't been much to laugh about . |
| 4 | The Hong Kong Government emphasises that its deportation policy for the Vietnamese is no different from its policy of sending illegal Chinese immigrants back across the border . |
| 5 | Offering Mr Hurd his support , Mr Michael Heseltine ( C. Henley ) , said : ‘ It 's quite impossible to explain to the Chinese population in Hong Kong that we 're putting their relatives back across the frontier with the mainland day after day , and allowing boat people from Vietnam to remain in Hong Kong . ’ |
| 6 | And , as the second and third generation of Arab-Americans began to look back across the Atlantic , they were joined by a new wave of immigrants from the Middle East , many of them Lebanese , Palestinians and Iraqis displaced by the political upheavals in the region . |
| 7 | Philip walked back across the feeding-ground towards the ride . |
| 8 | She ran back across the yard to the hen-house , through the netting gate , across the muddy enclosure , scattering hens at each step . |
| 9 | Walking back across the fields , he suggested that they stop by the lake on the way . |
| 10 | Recently built , this attractive gasthof stands back across the road from the gondola lift which gives access to the Brandstadl mountain . |
| 11 | Mike pushed the papers back across the desk and looked at the Old Man , who raised his eyebrows questioningly . |
| 12 | The reservation form comes back across the counter . |
| 13 | So I drove back across the whole of the county , from Banbury to Henley to return to Windsor , where my parents were spending the summer with us , and looked forward to telling them the news . |
| 14 | From the first top there is a breathtaking panorama back across the glen to the southern slopes of Ben Nevis and Aonach Beag , but perhaps more thrilling , across the corrie westwards to the goal of Sgurr a' Mhaim . |
| 15 | Scrambling to his feet , he took the case and hung it by its handle on to a support-post of the fence , then quickly climbed back over , lifted down the case , and hurried back across the glade and down the path by which he had come , finally disappearing into the trees . |
| 16 | The routed forces stream back across the board and behind them follow the now-superior armies of the computer . |
| 17 | On the way back across the lake I dragged my ankle in the cold water and back at camp kept it elevated with cold cloths , then Kaz wrapped it in an ice bandage . |
| 18 | Corbett moved the cup of ale back across the table . |
| 19 | Corbett looked back across the galley to where Selkirk and de Craon were standing near the far ship rail . |
| 20 | But instead of the genteel growl as the BMW drove off , Dennis 's footsteps crunched back across the gravel to the house and the front door opened . |
| 21 | I walk back across the grass and pick up my barrel-bag . |
| 22 | Moggach was at Badock for a year , doing the things that students do : coming back across the Downs at night ( no money for bus fares ) , giving each other piggy backs : ‘ It was all very jolly and studenty and like students should be . ’ |
| 23 | People spill back across the empty space of moonlight , and the dancers ' faces merge with the crowd . |
| 24 | It tints his white tunic orange and projects his dancing shadow right back across the ground until it rises up with the juniper trunks . |
| 25 | Then they became animated , gesturing and talking , devising a strategy to bring the boar back across the river . |
| 26 | She gave it a brief glance , then pushed it back across the desk . |
| 27 | Similarly , if the London users want to enquire on the data , they initiate the enquiry on their local computer in the usual way , but behind the scenes the computer sends a message to its counterpart in New York asking for the data , which is then passed back across the network to be displayed on the enquirer 's screen . |
| 28 | The topsoil could then be pushed back across the site and to all appearances undisturbed agricultural land was left . |
| 29 | Pritchard and one corporal then nipped back across the open roadway to drop a 10lb charge between two tugs moored in the basin , and their dash back to the hut , a mere 60 yards or less from the approaching enemy , was achieved without mishap . |
| 30 | It was decided that about one thousand was right , three hundred to storm the castle itself and the remainder to seal off the approaches thereto for long enough to allow the raiders to achieve their ends and retire back across the ford , it was to be hoped with Edward Balliol dead or alive . |