Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [v-ing] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | The erm the views coming back from the consultant were obviously er so follow occasions but not dramatically so . |
| 2 | You could see the prisoners looking back at the two bodies in the centre of the carnage ; there was a lot of blood now , spreading in pools . |
| 3 | She banished the horrible image from her mind ; the contorted face , the eyes rolling back as Irina fell after the blow to her head . |
| 4 | During the refurbishment programme the ledgers dating back to 1717 were taken into Archive Department 's collection where they will be looked after professionally , and many objets d'art were temporarily removed from the building for safe-keeping and restoration . |
| 5 | We watch the insects in the headlights zinging back and forth without apparent logic . |
| 6 | Seton halted further profitless talk and sent the emissaries hurrying back with a single cannon-shot above their heads . |
| 7 | Er and I always used to think it must be extremely , they 'd hear them going out at night and you know then count the planes coming back . |
| 8 | I ca n't ever see the factories coming back that used to be with , you know they 're all be smaller work loads now |
| 9 | Look at the implications looking back over it when when Fire and Public Protection had produced their report , but certainly the things are and it 's quite clear that we all know this case in my particular the river has been constricted by some thoroughly bad planning decisions and development control districts and they 're paying them that the owners are paying the penalty for that erm reducing the ditches and er building over them and okay we 've got problems erm so er there are structure plan implications erm which I do n't I think we should miss and if we say that really building on a is a principle well then we should try it right into the structure plan or looking at local plans for approval that we actually look at this a little bit more carefully . |
| 10 | Where are the tapes going back to ? |
| 11 | Not only in the Fens were the waters fighting back . |
| 12 | Partially to silence Jane 's chatter , Patrick began quietly pointing out some of the landmarks , the memories coming back with the names . |
| 13 | It is at least disconcerting and sometimes painful to have the memories flooding back to spoil the enjoyment of success , and what could be more effective in bringing back the memories than the sight of an unknown stranger receiving an honorary degree apparently for no good reason . |
| 14 | It was a recent television series called Heroes II — The Return , which brought the memories flooding back for Bernard Seyburn . |
| 15 | Former Sunderland striker Billy Hughes , who played in the 1973 Cup winning team and is now steward at Stressholme Golf Club , Darlington , said : ‘ It brought all the memories flooding back . |
| 16 | THE merest mention of the word Hippodrome here a fortnight ago brought the memories flooding back to Derek Mason who was a regular at the theatre from a very young age . |
| 17 | Raise the toes of the back leg and — without the toes touching back on the floor — stand up using the thigh strength of the front leg . |
| 18 | Suddenly I noticed , through the window , the servants coming back from church . |
| 19 | resulting in debris from the surroundings washing back into the pond together with water loss from the pond . |
| 20 | Aim was doubtful but sufficient to send the attackers hurrying back . |
| 21 | It concerned me deeply that the men going back to Burma should have a smattering of the language , especially those who would go in with the Wingate levies into occupied Burma . |
| 22 | Well Jim , Jim saw the children going back to er school after swimming |
| 23 | In Britain , too , observers have noted instances of direct government interference in the day-to-day running of the railways stretching back to the early days of nationalization . |
| 24 | Crane was up at the corner to stop the others breaking back to the north . |
| 25 | Just the same , Wyss found himself sliding , and sensed the others sliding back too , and nothing could stop them . |
| 26 | All the Shelley family came , the boys going back to school in the afternoon . |
| 27 | S so the position as of say the summer nineteen forty seven when , when you 're , you , this law was being formulated the reports coming back are that although there is the opportunity for the poor to do better , as a , as a matter of course they 're not all doing better . |