Example sentences of "back towards the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The path leads down and around to a brick-paved seating area situated beneath a climber-covered arbour looking back towards the house . |
| 2 | So we left the remote mountains of the north and west and headed back towards the central highlands and Mount Kenya , the main objective of our visit . |
| 3 | This is what it means to say that Dostoevsky brushes against Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov as he reaches back towards the underground man . |
| 4 | Relegation followed , and the hopelessly over-stretched club were sliding back towards the Fourth Division when Toshack resigned in 1984 . |
| 5 | Rumours at H.Q about the Brigade advancing in pursuit of the German forces , who have now , it appears , pulled back towards the Seine taking all their equipment with them . |
| 6 | Popular American poetry of the period encouraged not only ‘ the coming together of East and West ’ , but also Vachel Lindsay 's attempts ‘ to carry … vaudeville form back towards the old Greek precedent of the half-chanted lyric ’ . |
| 7 | At this point it is difficult not to be drawn back towards the work of Anthony Quinton , who has provided a helpful model of the basic Conservative claims to political wisdom . |
| 8 | Now , as from the times of childhood , she rode Fenna , seated in the deep hollow of the meeting place of scaled neck , veined wing and rising battlement of spine ; a throne protected from the great gale of his flight , as safe as the rocky cradle secures the foetal child , leaning back towards the bumpy spine as she had leant before , she gave herself over to their journey . |
| 9 | No matter how carefully he sliced each shovelful in an arc out on the wind , there were certain unpredictable gusts that lifted the grains and blew them back towards the tractor so that by evening his clothes were filthy with lime , his face and hands as white as chalk , accentuating the inflamed red round his eyes . |
| 10 | Tony finished his work and we set off back towards the sea . |
| 11 | Tony offered to walk back towards the vehicle , now a long way off , and left me to think about it all . |
| 12 | There is a feeling that if the wording were changed to ‘ seeking to interfere with play ’ it would spare the player who is in an offside position but making a genuine attempt to stay onside by , for example , running back towards the halfway line . |
| 13 | But yesterday , on his 91st birthday , Trafford , whose wife died in sheltered accommodation four years ago , told a community nursing conference in London that , though a Tory voter all his life who thought most of what Mrs Thatcher was doing was good , he saw a danger that old people might be heading back towards the workhouse if the Government went ahead with NHS cuts and changes in community care . |
| 14 | Now that a reaction is setting in , Mr Gorbachev is leaning back towards the conservatives to keep his balance . |
| 15 | He is moving back towards the bad practice of selective tax shelters , which Mr Lawson had undermined in his five years as chancellor . |
| 16 | We lead her back towards the Odeon Mezzanine and break the ice by saying interestingly how confusing it is that the Odeon Mezzanine , the Odeon Leicester Square and the Odeon West End are all situated within yards of each other . |
| 17 | And slowly , luring him with the chocolate wrapping , he led him back towards the feeding-place . |
| 18 | Then he ran back towards the stack-yard gate . |
| 19 | The triplet , reunited with its mother , was heading back towards the flock that was bunched up against the top fence . |
| 20 | It seemed that he had heard her , because there was silence again and Jinny turned back towards the little patch of bushes she was picking over . |
| 21 | As they began to climb , Jinny looked back towards the sofa and met the boy 's eyes again . |
| 22 | But before he could move there was a click and Doyle was starting back towards the camera . |
| 23 | Spinning round , kicking a heap of empty cider bottles out of her way , she raced back towards the entrance , not stopping now to feel her way , cannoning off the walls in the darkness . |
| 24 | Together they worked their way back towards the bank . |
| 25 | The Adjutant hurtled back towards the auditorium , calling over his shoulder , ‘ Sorry , Miss Grey . |
| 26 | The idea of going out in the garden to sit looking back towards the house was popular , as was the line of the path , laid in stock bricks in a colour best described as crushed strawberry . |
| 27 | By the Canal Turn he was second , and he kept up his gallop as the field came back towards the stands , taking up the running with three fences to go . |
| 28 | He turned back towards the stands , jumped nimbly over the thirteenth and fourteenth and soared over the Chair with Sebastian V , Royal Stuart and Zongalero keeping him company and Spartan Missile starting to make ground from the rear . |
| 29 | She looked over her shoulder , shook her head again , and began to walk back towards the stairway to the gallery . |
| 30 | As she pushed the emptied skip back towards the scutching room for the umpteenth time , her legs simply stopped working and she sagged against the basket , fighting down a wave of dizziness and nausea . |