Example sentences of "[v-ing] back [prep] the [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cardiff pushed past , and now they were all heading down that corridor past the two elevators on their left ; still looking back to the reception doors lest that monstrous shadow should suddenly reappear . |
| 2 | Herself , lying back on the punt cushions . |
| 3 | ‘ You are no trouble , ’ she had said , lying back against the satin cushions , smelling of rosewater and musk . |
| 4 | One morning as she was rushing back to the changing rooms one of the models slipped and twisted her ankle . |
| 5 | She saw the building that Adolph Brückner had looked at on his arrival that day , the pain in his head threatening like the thunder clouds that were drifting back over the mountain tops . |
| 6 | Stepping back from the display cabinets , hoping to sit down on the window-seat , she made a false move and bumped into something cold . |
| 7 | I saw you coming back from the communion rails , with your eyes down and your hands folded , as if you were n't putrid inside , but I know . |
| 8 | Keeping a little white icing back for the wave crests , tint the remaining royal icing shades of different blues and greens for the sea . |