Example sentences of "[v-ing] back along the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The waterfall , however , is a hundred yards downriver and is best reached by walking back along the road for fifty yards to the end of a wall , where a step down in the undergrowth discloses a good path high on the river bank above a deep gorge , the waterfall soon being seen through a canopy of foliage . |
| 2 | A coastal walk with several variants : do the whole coastal stretch , looking round inland and finishing at the visitor centre for the bus back , or start a shorter walk from Coldingham ( walking back along the road or taking the bus ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Thank you for a lovely meal , ’ she said , when Vitor had settled the bill and they were walking back along the quay . |
| 4 | She had been walking back along the track , head bent , deep in thought . |
| 5 | Looking back along the road he frowned . |
| 6 | When she was most irritated by Caro 's holier-than-thou , most nearly offended by how stupid/insensitive Caro must think her , with her ‘ what a world you live in ’ , and was thinking ‘ How young , how predictable , how limited you are , ’ came the twist in the conversation , the unexpected note , that looking back along the line of the conversation , was the note Caro had been heading for all the time . |
| 7 | As you will have noticed , the strategies we have reviewed have been operating back along the stress cycle ( as shown in Figure 1 on page 70 ) at points nearer and nearer the source . |
| 8 | He did n't try to follow Philip , he turned and went off howling back along the ride . |
| 9 | The others realised the error at precisely the same moment , and the subsequent racing back along the track towards each other could have been useful in Doctor Zhivago if someone had shot it in slow motion . |
| 10 | He doffed his cap as we marched past , and a few paces further on we negotiated the turn and were heading back along the road on the other side of the village green towards the saluting base . |
| 11 | ‘ Christ , they were quick off the mark , Piper , ’ remarked the driver , swinging the jeep round and heading back along the road to Brigade H.Q. Nos. 3 and 6 Commando were pulling out as we entered the village ; no sign of 45 Royal Marine Commando . |
| 12 | Going back along the ditch and down beside the house , she tried to convince herself that no one would have heard her love-shriek , but she was already frightened that they had , and when she tiptoed into the scullery and crossed to her straw pallet in the corner , her fear increased tenfold , for she was immediately certain that the blanket had been moved and that someone had been there in the scullery only minutes before . |
| 13 | He indicates the quieter road to our left , leading back along the top of the Enterprise Zone . |
| 14 | She heard the door open and close , then his footsteps coming back along the corridor and go into the sitting room . |
| 15 | There 's Bigwig coming back along the bottom , and the other two with him . " |
| 16 | Simon was coming back along the waterline with Ben trotting at his heels . |
| 17 | My second thought , which did not occur to me until I was crawling back along the floor towards my bed , was that today was the day when I was due to Testify . |
| 18 | She could feel the heavy male footsteps running , thundering back along the path . |
| 19 | Thus the bulk of Rennenkampf 's army , streaming back along the route they had earlier taken westward , contrived to escape . |