Example sentences of "slowly back to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pull the dumb-bell slowly back to the overhead position , then breathe out . |
| 2 | Discarded by the press , the hapless Mrs Ullman walked slowly back to the Tube station , still reeling from her brief moment of TV fame . |
| 3 | Towing the net , he swam slowly back to Golden Girl . |
| 4 | They dragged themselves slowly back to the form-room and sat on their desks , waiting . |
| 5 | Then , when the danger has passed , it starts to turn itself slowly back to its normal posture , beginning at the head end . |
| 6 | ‘ And as the light fades , we watch the last urine sample of the day being taken slowly back to the laboratory ’ |
| 7 | Then she dried her eyes on the hem of her petticoat and went slowly back to the house . |
| 8 | ‘ You may call me Miss Louise , ’ she replied , and with that walked slowly back to her cottage . |
| 9 | Then he went slowly back to within two blocks of home , drove up the back lane and stopped before the old wooden garage which he had rented for so many years from Isobel Dawson . |
| 10 | She felt cold , and folded her arms across her chest as she walked slowly back to the house , looking down at the bloodstained front step . |
| 11 | Her sweet words were still echoing in his ears as he came slowly back to reality . |
| 12 | He walked slowly back to the lodge . |
| 13 | Other stories about Dic , Little Dick the Carpenter — how he never got to a rugby match because there were too many pubs on the way , how he was burnt all over in a pit explosion , wrapped in bandages so that only his eyes and nostrils showed through — and bathed slowly back to health by his daughters who poured olive oil over him all the time , how he took his daughter Cecilia ( Cis ) to eisteddfods because he loved to hear her sing but how she pleaded with him ‘ not to stop anywhere and not to leave her in the hall ’ . |
| 14 | Hauser turned away , walked slowly back to the waiting Sikorsky . |
| 15 | Then they walked slowly back to the shop . |
| 16 | I made it back to the car and drove very slowly back to my own apartment . |
| 17 | I handed over my card , and went slowly back to Laura . |
| 18 | We had drunk a lot more than was usual for Jean-Claude and me , and we rolled slowly back to the cottage , stopping only , on Jean-Claude 's insistence , to listen to the music of the night insects . |
| 19 | After a while she felt exhausted and walked slowly back to the house , shutting the front door carefully behind her . |
| 20 | ‘ Goodbye , Oak , ’ he added , and walked slowly back to his empty house . |
| 21 | She walked slowly back to her room and looked at the dress lying ready across the bed . |
| 22 | But Martin and Mihal went slowly down the mountain , and slowly back to the forest . |
| 23 | And when Cadfael came slowly back to her across the empty court , she stood in his way great-eyed , fronting him gravely as if she would penetrate into the most remote recesses of his mind . |
| 24 | He walked slowly back to the clearing . |
| 25 | I walked slowly back to the hotel . |
| 26 | A few minutes later , Sir Thomas was walking slowly back to the Imperial Hotel in advance of the main party . |
| 27 | The first thing she saw , though , was Julius walking slowly back to the house . |
| 28 | She went slowly back to the drawing-room to collect her sketch-pad and pencils , and all the time she kept telling herself that this was a really stupid thing to do . |
| 29 | ‘ You 're like a brother to me , ’ Alyssia said impulsively as they drove slowly back to the house around midnight . |
| 30 | Claudia walked slowly back to the hotel ; she could leave Alnwick now before Roman came back , if he did come back . |