Example sentences of "back down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But we can not back down every time a group of tenants get up a petition against another tenant . |
| 2 | There were other reasons for insecurity , too : no matter how much material prosperity had come a family 's way , there was still every chance that illness or a premature death might send them all back down a snake at a much faster speed than they had been able to climb up a ladder . |
| 3 | While Mr Stych was canoeing back down a tributary of the Mackenzie– already dangerous with chunks of ice , to an appointment with a helicopter , Mr Frizzell was trying on his last year 's brocade waistcoat and finding it too small ; Mr MacDonald , Ian 's father , was winding up a trying compensation case for his insurance company at Vermilion ; and Mr MacDonald ( oil ) was trying to explain to his superiors in Sarnia , Ontario , why he must be back in a place like Tollemarche by the middle of December . |
| 4 | Pascoe took the lift back down a floor . |
| 5 | The crowd was still thickening , filling back down the high street , but it looked like time to start . |
| 6 | He turned back down the corridor , which was now as dark as a catacomb . |
| 7 | When he heard of the disappearance of Mrs Wilks , 22 , he drove back down the motorway and noted the marker post number where he saw the car . |
| 8 | I had to move further and further back down the line to the boats . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I shall start the bagpipes here and walk back down the hill towards the woods , playing as I go . ’ |
| 10 | She walked slowly back down the lane , savouring the rich peace , the strength she felt . |
| 11 | The whole of Rose 's family walked back down the lane to their house in silence . |
| 12 | In a brief lull we moved quickly down to the river and followed it back down the valley . |
| 13 | We walked for a mile or so , easily outpacing the vehicle which was soon just a pair of yellow lights back down the valley . |
| 14 | We abandoned the attempt to reach Hveravellir , accepted that the weather and conditions were against us and retreated back down the valley towards civilization . |
| 15 | I go back down the platform , back to where the shops are . |
| 16 | A couple got off the train , were met by the police and put up a ferocious but unsuccessful fight : suspicion of a bank robbery the previous day , apparently , back down the line in Thunder Bay . |
| 17 | He posted the detective constable he had with him back down the path to join his colleague , armed with instructions to repel all attempts by anyone , however senior or armed with whatever authority , to go anywhere near the body unless he , Sergeant Black , personally accompanied them . |
| 18 | He went back down the embankment with him , telling Catherine to stay where she was and help with photographing the track . |
| 19 | As he walked back down the cul-de-sac McLeish found a demarcation line , so precise it might have been achieved by running a tape across the road , where the commercial element stopped and flat-fronted , early Victorian terraced houses , took over . |
| 20 | They bring back down the laws of nature , if not of God himself . |
| 21 | He tried to pull Caspar back down the slope . |
| 22 | So Gloria and Dot went back down the area steps to their room , leaving the sunshine behind . |
| 23 | ‘ If I got to have it done , I 'll go back to the place I was before , back down the Duke 's Ferry Road . |
| 24 | Back down the beach , the Big Wheel was turning and there were even queues waiting to get on . |
| 25 | In fact , he did begin to run , but then he stopped , abruptly , right in the entrance , turned round , and peered back down the tunnel . |
| 26 | He began to come back down the tunnel towards her . |
| 27 | Otley came tearing back down the stairs white as a sheet and put the mug of cocoa down on the table . |
| 28 | His putting completely deserted him , three-putts on three successive greens early in this last round and in the end nothing better than a 78 which dropped him far back down the field . |
| 29 | This prevents any vibration caused by the cistern being filled from being transmitted back down the rising main . |
| 30 | ‘ You may look back down the mountain . |