Example sentences of "[v-ing] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Varieties can develop behavioural ‘ isolating mechanisms ’ , such as differences in courtship , which prevent interbreeding even when it is genetically possible — but a brief period of physical isolation is needed to allow the populations to develop the differences that will prevent them blending back together again if they come into contact . |
| 2 | What you 've got happening back in Moscow you can see happening here now . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ What the hell is happening back there ? ’ |
| 4 | All kinds of things might be happening back home . |
| 5 | At nights he used to go down to the shore and look out across the sea you see and he wondered what was happening back home at Greentoft and fairly homesick . |
| 6 | As the gloom of evening began to settle over the leafy canopy Paige carried her last bundle of kindling back to their campsite . |
| 7 | Now that has come to pass , I think everyone is gearing back down and it will be down for a couple of years before it goes back up ; it just seems to go back and forth . |
| 8 | Chief Whip Richard Ryder anxiously counted the numbers of MPs trooping back from the lobbies . |
| 9 | When newly awakened from lively dreams , we are so near them , still agitated by them , still in their sphere — give us one syllable , one feature , one hint , and we should repossess the whole ; hours of this strange entertainment would come trooping back to us ; but we can not get our hand on the first link or fibre , and the whole is lost . |
| 10 | I stood staring out of the window into the shifting , cloying mist and wondered about Mathilda 's ghosts trooping back to their worm-eaten beds . |
| 11 | What The Smiths were about was narcissism , damaged , exploding back with a defiant fantasy of martyrdom . |
| 12 | The garrison , in spite of everything and without the assistance of the Collector , continued to labour between one downpour and the next to prevent their walls of mud from oozing back into the plain from which they had been dug , but the number of men available to wield a shovel had suddenly begun to decrease alarmingly . |
| 13 | Other ideas current in London include the sharing of departments between London and New York ( one team jetting back and forth across the Atlantic to catalogue sales ) and the dismantling of specialist departments in favour of more all-round teams of valuers . |
| 14 | They burned and burned , driving back the darkness . |
| 15 | Then one evening — I must have been 12 or 13 at the time — we were driving back from visiting my nan in Kent . |
| 16 | Finally we floated out on to the porch to admire the lawns and burnished trees , before driving back to relieve pent-up Kodiak of his anxiety . |
| 17 | Tremayne said nothing until we were driving back to the stable and then all he did was ask me if I were happy with what I 'd done . |
| 18 | Then he visits La Famiglia before driving back up the King 's Road and on to the Caprice . |
| 19 | Driving back in the dark , Roland and Maud communicated in brief businesslike bursts , their imaginations hugely busy elsewhere . |
| 20 | She had been ill for some time and , driving back again to Cardiff to join my father , I reflected on the sadness that parents can never know what their children owe them . |
| 21 | Driving back into town , he put them down near their homes , Nutty , Nails and Gary getting out last down by the bus-station . |
| 22 | She insisted on driving back herself too , ’ he continued , ‘ what do you think about that ? |
| 23 | Driving back to Leeds , Margaret timed her ear radio to the commentary from the York races . |
| 24 | Love-making 's not easy when you 're driving back from an evening meeting in Cheltenham to reach London by 1.30am and you both have to be up early for work the next day . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Then I shall be driving back to Tbilisi . |
| 26 | Rufus , driving back from London with the hashish his dealer swore was genuine Indian charas and a package of best Colombian , picked her off the street — ‘ a piece of property that is found ownerless ’ . |
| 27 | Driving back from a game with fellow coloureds , he stopped at a white sports ground to watch a match played by members of the SACU . |
| 28 | He had spent the week driving back and forth between Blackburn and Southampton where his wife gave birth last Monday to their first child . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought they 'd gone off my land and started driving back to the house but then suddenly felt a sharp pain in my back . |
| 30 | ‘ I was driving back from a conference in Norwich , and I wanted to see the church in any case . |