Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] back [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Though will you be all right driving back on your own ? ’ she fretted .
2 The force is rightly stepping back from the limelight .
3 However , looking back , and especially looking back after all the interlacements of Volumes Two and Three , one might well think that besides an image of life ‘ the Road ’ has crept up to being an image of Providence .
4 Okay erm so going back to these we 've got day s say stay play pray .
5 So going back to the parallel , have you had any thoughts about it ?
6 Erm so going back to this one , E to the minus nought point three .
7 So going back to where we came in .
8 Whatever the case , the number one lesson to learn is that a horse can not be prevented from pulling by merely pulling back at him .
9 She was soon forgetful of the time , however , her thoughts swiftly going back to the man who had put his finger on her doorbell at that hour in the morning , and kept it there .
10 We must make sure we do n't keep on disturbing the seed 's growth by constantly going back to the same people and badgering them .
11 Quickly they finished , and left , severally going back to No. 43 .
12 She had taken after her father , Astrid said , that dogginess — always going after a stick , leaping high to please the thrower , waggingly racing back with it and repeating the action as long as it pleased .
13 But if the Franks were the dominant partner it is difficult to explain why so much material should have been channelled towards England with little apparently going back in return .
14 ‘ I realised if I wanted to get back to where I had been , it was perhaps better going back to North and starting off there again . ’
15 That 's quite good because y often there is a country though , we have n't had many campaigns on countries sort of lately have we , it 's been more on different aspects on Amnesty 's work so they 're obviously going back to picking on countries where they deal , that 'll .
16 You know , just talking to him now he 's obviously getting back at her .
17 But he was secure in his alibi , having spent the whole of the previous day in the Crown Court and the evening and night with friends at Norwich , only getting back to Chevisham in time for a late start that morning .
18 Of course the Korg A2 is the heart of the system and the real subject of this review , so getting back on track I 'll get into what Korg have managed to put together .
19 ‘ And I 'm only coming back to the flat to get my bag , if that 's the way you feel .
20 I see , so coming back to er making the pills and silver on it and gold , was this er sort of foe the aristocracy more ?
21 So coming back to me on that .
22 No doubt she had spoken English with Russell and it was all coming back to her .
23 Yet , as much as reversion to primitivism , so settling back into childhood enjoyment and innocence was undesirable to Eliot .
24 Guilt , or constantly thinking back to past errors , only has any value if you are able to learn from it and to make a firm decision to avoid those errors in the future .
25 It does n't work for her the mistress of the moment of sudden isolation at not seeing back to the black magician who fantastically juggles luminous hoops in the recto-rectangular hey put my mirror back .
26 I was just walking back past the big , black marble vault belonging to the Chatwin family when somebody dodged out from behind it and grabbed me from the back .
27 He was just walking back to the house when the patrol car came storming up the drive , etching his shadow on the wall .
28 Where I made my mistake was in not checking back with his number in Freiburg at the edge of the Black Forest .
29 They are not looking back at what happened in the past .
30 Counting to ten and not shouting back at yet another unreasoning and unreasonable parent is difficult .
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