Example sentences of "[v-ing] back to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the gloom of evening began to settle over the leafy canopy Paige carried her last bundle of kindling back to their campsite . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Driving back to Leeds , Margaret timed her ear radio to the commentary from the York races . |
| 6 | ‘ Then I shall be driving back to Tbilisi . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Driving back to Aubagne , Alex told me how the rest of them had spent the day throwing grapes at the old German and accusing him of being in the SS . |
| 9 | It seemed such a waste to be driving back to England and leaving it all behind . |
| 10 | A few hours later the family were driving back to Windsor . |
| 11 | He cut into her thoughts with a question about the ball and she repeated her earlier assurance that she 'd had a successful evening , adding that in all conscience she ought to have been driving back to London to work on some of the stories . |
| 12 | But this Friday he was driving back to London . |
| 13 | Driving back to the house through the small back-roads was more difficult than she 'd anticipated , and she took a couple of wrong turnings . |
| 14 | They were both very quiet driving back to Westfield Manor . |
| 15 | Next year my wife starts in earnest on the gardens , driving back to Blackberry and Elver , while I experiments with the outside colour scheme . |
| 16 | She and Jake had been driving back to Lomond View after accompanying Kirsty back to school when Jake had swivelled round in his seat to inform her , |
| 17 | Driving back to Armscott Manor , Virginia felt as if a small bomb had been detonated in her life . |
| 18 | Instead of driving back to Broom House , she went into the village . |
| 19 | I shall be driving back to Prague myself this afternoon . ’ |
| 20 | A whole crowd of us were walking back to Denmark Street — me and Rat Scabies and Brian James — two founders of The Damned — and Mick Jones and some others . |
| 21 | I am walking back to my hotel after dinner with a Bucharest novelist and his family and being graciously escorted by him and his wife through the still evidently dangerous , silent streets . |
| 22 | One evening , towards midnight , I was walking back to my hotel from Dana 's place along a deserted street . |
| 23 | Walking back to the hotel , Rozanov and I were silent for a long time . |
| 24 | Miss Julie Stott , 27 , from Eccles , Manchester , was walking back to her hotel with a friend , Mr Peter Ellis , 27 , when a man attacked them from a passing car . |
| 25 | As Endill was walking back to his dormitory after lessons the next day he heard a faint ticking at the end of the main corridor . |
| 26 | The woman had left the bags and O saw she was walking back to the child , he heard her heels , but O did not stay to see what she did to the child ( and so he did not see her pick the child up in her arms and hold him tight ) ; he turned quickly , and left the station as fast as he could . |
| 27 | Walking back to the theatre that night , Noreen was extremely tense and said little . |
| 28 | ‘ Deal with this fellow , will you , ’ said the Major , walking back to the trenches , annoyed at getting his polished boots muddy . |
| 29 | Then , walking back to the car , I started rehearsing what I 'd say to them , almost as if I were concocting my story . |
| 30 | Once , on a day of snow and melting slush , he was walking back to the Marylebone Road when the Asshe carriage passed by , with Johnny at the reins . |