Example sentences of "back the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Before he could introduce himself , Emily turned and began to walk back the way she had come . |
| 32 | ‘ Let's go back the way we came , ’ Coconut said to Gareth . |
| 33 | Elisabeth was torn between retreating at once , following the path back the way she had come , or continuing as far as the colonnade to look through the windows into the music room . |
| 34 | Once , on a more adventurous day , he began taking some of the furniture apart with a screwdriver he found beside the garden shed , but was caught by his mother and told to put it back the way he had found it before she chased him out of the house . |
| 35 | Throttle open and keeping to the centre of the stream where there were no obstructions , he powered the BMW in second gear straight back the way they had come . |
| 36 | They turned on their heels and started back the way they 'd come . |
| 37 | He drove quickly and dangerously back the way they 'd come . |
| 38 | It was too cold and windy to sit and wait , though , so I limped back the way I had come , embittered at having to walk unnecessarily . |
| 39 | Some joker had daubed the pub sign on the reverse of a notice which looked back the way I had come . |
| 40 | The only way he was able to free himself was to grab the branch and work against the current , going back the way he came in . |
| 41 | He got up and wandered back the way we 'd come . |
| 42 | If I walked back the way we 'd come , there 'd be a bus stop , would n't there ? |
| 43 | There is another back the way we have come … |
| 44 | Grant saw Forster and Lawton reappear , moving back the way they had come . |
| 45 | Meredith waved goodbye and watched her set off back the way they had come in the direction of Pook 's stables . |
| 46 | He ran back the way they 'd come . |
| 47 | Old Herky turned around and slowly started back the way he had come . |
| 48 | They had to wait 20 minutes for a train to take them back the way they 'd just come from , then hire cabs to return to the Five Ways area . |
| 49 | Then he was gone , with the bruiser , back the way he had come . |
| 50 | They drove back the way they had come . |
| 51 | He also glanced back the way he had come . |
| 52 | Then , mindful of my companions , I crawled back the way I had come , getting muddier and acquiring even more scratches . |
| 53 | He went back the way he had come , hearing the music ahead of him , and recognized the tune of a Geordie air . |
| 54 | At the meeting-place of roads on the Plateau d'Iraty there are four things you can do : go unadventurously back the way you came , to Esterençuby ; carry on due east over the Col Bagargui along a tolerable but not always reassuring road into Larrau and the valley of Mauléon ; turn sharp left along a somewhat hazardous stretch of track rather than road towards the village of Men dive ( I funk Ed this route myself , after a short trial run , but bad roads do get mended or improved in the Pyrenees , so one year 's experience may be different from the next ) ; or turn to the right along the very scenic road into the Forêt d'Iraty itself . |
| 55 | Coming down from the Col de la Pierre-Saint-Martin there is no need to drive back the way you came , through Arette , because five miles from the top you can fork off to the right and come down in sylvan splendour through the very heart of the Forêt d'lssaux , before either turning sharp left down the valley of the Lourdios and a not very good road to Issor , or carrying straight on to follow one of two better , more or less interchangeable roads back into the valley of the Aspe near Bedous . |
| 56 | The Col d'Aubisque is high , at 5,600 feet , and the views that you have from it are sumptuous , both back the way you have come , and now to the east as well , across to the prominent peak of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre , once thought to be the highest in the chain because it stands rather apart and closer to the plain , and before people took to actually measuring altitudes , the nearest peaks were mistaken for the tallest . |
| 57 | Before she could pull away from him he jerked loose his grip and started back the way they 'd come . |
| 58 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 59 | I start to run again , back the way I 've just come , the branch held out in front of me in both hands . |
| 60 | At last he turned , and marched bravely back the way he had come , through the rows of smiling women . |