Example sentences of "[v-ing] back across " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm far too tired to start driving back across town now . |
| 2 | Walking back across the fields , he suggested that they stop by the lake on the way . |
| 3 | On the contrary , when that afternoon 's session ended and we were walking back across the campus , he put one of his Anglepoise arms across my shoulders and attempted some avuncularity . |
| 4 | Furthermore one can perhaps see the solution to which Tolkien , in his philological way , was drawn , namely to present the First Age as ‘ a complex of divergent texts interlinked by commentary ’ ( UT , p. 1 ) , the texts themselves being supposedly written by Men , of different periods , looking back across the ages to vast rumours of whose truth they knew only part . |
| 5 | Bigwig was racing back across the field , looking more agitated than he had at any time since the encounter with Captain Holly . |
| 6 | Llewelyn came to his feet with a leap that shook the chair jarring back across the floor-boards , and tumbled the scattered rolls of parchment to the rugs . |
| 7 | But Preston was n't going back across the Common . |
| 8 | Moggach was at Badock for a year , doing the things that students do : coming back across the Downs at night ( no money for bus fares ) , giving each other piggy backs : ‘ It was all very jolly and studenty and like students should be . ’ |
| 9 | The first type is that of new general orientations of a very wide sort , basic themes that keep coming back across the documents and hence can be said to characterize the Council 's mind and achievement as a whole . |
| 10 | And then coming down from a point on King Street just to the left of the existing tree , if you can imagine that , and coming back across the marketplace |
| 11 | Coming back across the yard he had heard the sound of a door swinging . |
| 12 | Fucking yuppies , all of them , thought Hitch , glancing back across the table . |
| 13 | ‘ What 's it worth ? ’ said Nicola , ignoring the guy who was creeping back across the room with her joint in his mouth . |
| 14 | When he saw Duclos striding back across the compound dragging a young Annamese boy behind him , he smiled quietly to himself , stepped back into his bedroom and began fumbling with the buttons of his silk shirt . |
| 15 | Lio ! rt and Liartes were already striding back across the turf to where the servants stood waiting with their mounts . |
| 16 | sliding back across the dashboard |
| 17 | The villagers , tired now , were bringing their festivities to an end and streaming back across the green to the tavern or to their homes in search of other pleasures . |
| 18 | This monologue of fears about the moral downfall of the common people as the result of debased amusements , stretching back across more than two centuries , must be counted as one of the determining traditions within the unfolding preoccupation with the decline and fall of the ‘ British way of life ’ . |