Example sentences of "then back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He watched her car depart ; he stood on the terrace , and looked across towards the city , then back towards the house . |
| 2 | Her eyes swung back towards Marlin , who was asking her if she was all right , then back towards the street as brakes shrieked , and the failed assassin was struck squarely by a speeding car , which reeled round , wheels locked and sliding over the sleet-greased street , throwing the man 's body off the bonnet and over a parked car . |
| 3 | Its lineage reaches back , via the accusations against the Hollywood ‘ talkies ’ and the earliest silent movies , through and beyond the Music Halls at the turn of the century when directly similar complaints were voiced , towards the cheap theatres and penny-gaffs of early Victorian England when it was commonly alleged that the portrayal of the daring exploits of Jack Sheppard and Dick Turpin caused young people to imitate their crimes , and then back towards the eighteenth century 's disapproval of popular amusements such as fairs , interludes , public shows and minor theatres . |
| 4 | The man in the long dark coat glanced at Donna , then back towards the Menzies shop . |
| 5 | Allen looked at the ground on which they were standing and then back along the path . |
| 6 | She looked round at the cuttings strewn on the floor and then back at the blank screen . |
| 7 | Sweetheart stared at the mess on the kitchen floor , then at the unhappy little boy , then back at the ruined flowers . |
| 8 | Aabida : ( Looking at the jug , then back at the bottle . ) |
| 9 | Wiping it away with his handkerchief , he closed his eyes , opened them and looked round the room , then back at the newsprint in front of him , as if he might have been dreaming or have imagined it . |
| 10 | Chrissie glanced up towards the ceiling , then back at the note . |
| 11 | I looked over the balcony , first at the stage and then back at the dance floor and beyond . |
| 12 | Then back at the green image on the screen . |
| 13 | He glanced across at her , then back at the road . |
| 14 | The tide had turned long ago and the sea had slushed gently down the sands , withdrawing into its channels , then back into the deep water far out in the Estuary . |
| 15 | The Hercules banked , drew away from the pool of light , then back into the merciful , all concealing blackness . |
| 16 | He let in the estate agent and took him over the house , into the drawing room and the dining room , upstairs to the Pincushion Room , the Centaur Room , the Room of Astonishment , the Deathbed Room , the Room Without a Name , and then back down the back stairs to that jumble of kitchens and scullery and washhouse and coal-store , most of it a nineteenth century addition . |
| 17 | He ran through the hall , the mockery of Havvie Blaine 's party following him as he dashed out of the main doorway — no sign of her there — and then back down the alley at the side — and still no Sally-Anne . |
| 18 | It will be possible to divert the A forty traffic away from the Green Road Roundabout along the M forty extension out to Wendlebury and then back down the new dual carriageway A forty three to rejoin the A forty near to Pear Tree , and that can be done from January ninety ninety one without waiting another seven or eight years for a Barton by-pass . |
| 19 | And then back for the evening service . |
| 20 | Then back to the exhausted heat of Lucy , and sleep . |
| 21 | ‘ We can go from opera , to the Beatles , to a 30s classic , then back to the 60s . |
| 22 | He was often aware of the which defended the realm of England against the Scottish raiders and then back to the Celtic saints coming out of Scotland into Northumbria . |
| 23 | Glancing up at her uneasily and then back to the document in front of him he read that Nora Elizabeth Fanshawe , by profession a teacher , had been born in London in 1945 , had black hair , brown eyes and was five feet nine inches tall with no distinguishing marks . |
| 24 | Then back to the farmyard to untackle and fodder the horse , to strip off his own thatch of soaked sacking , and milk cows by the light of a lantern that swung from a hook in the roof and smelled sharply in contrast with the milky smell of steaming cows and the less agreeable smell of fresh dung . |
| 25 | Thereafter we witness Rose being guided by the Fool towards Pagoda-land , where she finds the salamander , then back to the court where her kindness to both the salamander and her persecuted old father is rewarded by the transformation of the Prince to his real shape and his victory over all contenders to win Rose , rescue her father and banish Epine . |
| 26 | Then back to the shop , with Lucy now taking the money from her pinafore pocket where it had been tied in her handkerchief , and paying for the corn ; to go on her way feeling quite a little woman of the world . |
| 27 | Quickly coiling the bow line , he raised the main , then back to the cockpit . |
| 28 | He pumped steadily for five minutes , crossed to the starboard hull , pumped for a further ten minutes , then back to the port hull for a final five . |
| 29 | Then back to the corner of Blackmoor Drive and then we were told to parade at 10.45 p.m. for night duty . |
| 30 | After that it was on to the theatre for the evening show , then back to the Theatre Girls ' Club for , if they are to be believed , another meal of egg and chips . |