Example sentences of "on [art] [noun sg] back " in BNC.

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1 The first time it stopped raining was on the ferry back from Boulogne .
2 The inhabitants of Stowey for their part were already passing judgement as Coleridge , Southey and Henry Poole set off on the road back to Shurton .
3 Very quickly , however , the three young people began to exert over one another the complex mutual attraction which remained characteristic of their relationship , and more than three weeks passed before Coleridge finally set off on the road back to Stowey .
4 Hazlitt set out with Coleridge that morning on the road back to Shrewsbury , observing how his companion continually moved from one side of the footpath to the other as they walked along , though only later connecting this odd movement with ‘ any instability of purpose or involuntary change of principle ’ .
5 The four basic steps on the road back to financial health are :
6 A week after they arrived at Kinghorn , they were on the road back to Inverkeithing .
7 She supposed that she ought to spend more time at the place , but was always thankful when she was once again on the road back to London .
8 The four basic steps on the road back to financial health are : To Maximise your income — which may mean , for example , exploring the possibility of a part time job , or checking you are getting all the state benefits to which you are entitled .
9 On the road back to the tarn we passed a cluster of cottages .
10 At the Pitztal FIS downhill , which was held on a high glacier , we were up against none other than Peter Mueller , on the road back from last season 's devastating knee injury .
11 Seb remembered what Anna had said to him when they shared a haystack bed on the road back from Charwelton .
12 On the run back to the harbour , Ron 's dad asked , did you enjoy that , boys
13 ‘ Andropov was there too , and on the drive back to Moscow we talked about what was going to happen .
14 On the drive back to the camp one of Odd-Knut 's lead dogs , Stig , trips in a dark section of woodland .
15 On the drive back to camp we were all rather happy , Jimmy in the front driving with me half asleep in the passenger seat , and Henry and Rosemary behind .
16 On the drive back to London , Quinn was silent as Sam told him the outcome of her trip to Washington and the decision of the White House to let him have his head so long as she went with him .
17 On the drive back to St Petersburg the girl once again dropped off to sleep .
18 When he visited Ottery in August 1793 his brothers reluctantly agreed to help him ; but some of the money they supplied was frittered away on the journey back to Cambridge , and when he got there he discovered a host of forgotten debts .
19 I do n't need to dwell on the journey back to Jesselton , or her funeral or the hours of anguished talks about what everybody was called " the accident " .
20 He packed his hammers and notebook away in his bag again and started on the journey back to Fablan Fawr .
21 On the journey back into town Merrill deliberately froze out all thoughts of the past hour and its momentous revelation , concentrating instead on driving meticulously through the heavy rain .
22 But nothing could have prepared Gould for the transformation he witnessed on the journey back to Yarrundi from Maitland .
23 On the journey back by land , sea and land , he helped the men dress , wash , eat and be led without complaint or remonstration .
24 On the way back to Harwich , the newspapers did a marvellous job of keeping my mind off things , and it was only on the last leg of the journey that the butterflies started to flutter again .
25 Allowance must always be made for wind strength and the possibility of strong sink , since it can never be known beforehand whether there will be lift or sink on the way back .
26 A common mistake is to try to use lift on the way back instead of gliding on through it at a sensible speed .
27 On the way back that afternoon she bought a can of red spray paint in a car accessories shop .
28 The next night he remembered to pick up a video on the way back from work .
29 On the way back from No. 6 Commando positions to Brigade H.Q the road was busy with Jeeps ferrying the wounded from the area where the Black Watch had been attacking the German positions .
30 I 'll pick you up on the way back . ’
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