Example sentences of "he [was/were] [v-ing] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took a briefcase with him , as if he were going back to the Works . |
| 2 | His face was a mask of alarm and he was looking back to the office door and the cabinet which was pushed up against it . |
| 3 | Mr Hyslop had had little idea how badly he was injured until he was heading back to the station in the van . |
| 4 | He was lounging back against the tree trunk a few yards away , consulting his compass and studying the map intently . |
| 5 | Then he was hauling back on the control column and edging in on Woolley as the flight hurtled up in a long recovery from its dive . |
| 6 | She glanced at him , noticing that he was staring back through the partly open door of the study . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ In a Darkfall — they do , ’ replied Rohmer — and now he was striding back through the biting wind towards the office block . |
| 9 | He was going back into the National Health Service and had taken a consultancy in a drug dependency unit based at the Lurie Foundation Hospital for Dipsomaniacs on Hampstead Road . |
| 10 | Rochers town , we were only a short way and we went to this house , we were only young coppers , and we had this friend call on us and we looked out , he was going back into the car and he looked down the street and he said , my God there 's an awful lot of children around here , they must do nothing but screw all the time |
| 11 | He was going back to the Cluanie Inn . |