Example sentences of "back [prep] [art] road " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael hightails it out of town , 10,000 dollars better off , only to be turned back after a road accident . |
| 2 | I turned my back on the lochan and walked a dozen paces away from the edge before heading back towards the road . |
| 3 | As I turned away there were several mortar explosions behind me , about a hundred yards back along the road . |
| 4 | As I made my way back along the road I noticed that the ditches on both sides of the road contained dead British and German soldiers . |
| 5 | He doffed his cap as we marched past , and a few paces further on we negotiated the turn and were heading back along the road on the other side of the village green towards the saluting base . |
| 6 | ‘ Christ , they were quick off the mark , Piper , ’ remarked the driver , swinging the jeep round and heading back along the road to Brigade H.Q. Nos. 3 and 6 Commando were pulling out as we entered the village ; no sign of 45 Royal Marine Commando . |
| 7 | We make our way back along the road to the orchard . |
| 8 | He then grabbed the reins and drove back along the road , leaving the wounded post-boy to stagger to the nearest village . |
| 9 | After creating the maximum of confusion , they piled into the Lancia and set off back along the road for their rendezvous with the LRDG , accompanied by an Italian whom they had taken prisoner after he had foolishly asked Lewes for a light while the latter was placing a bomb on his truck . |
| 10 | As you drive , or walk , God forbid , back along the road , it 's hard to believe you have travelled all that way at a lofty 3,000 feet . |
| 11 | The waterfall , however , is a hundred yards downriver and is best reached by walking back along the road for fifty yards to the end of a wall , where a step down in the undergrowth discloses a good path high on the river bank above a deep gorge , the waterfall soon being seen through a canopy of foliage . |
| 12 | They left the shop and headed back along the road , Sammy crawling miserably along behind them . |
| 13 | When he stopped to look back along the road , he saw two cars draw up in front of his home , one after the other . |
| 14 | Looking back along the road he frowned . |
| 15 | She jumped to her feet , and hurried back along the road to Weatherbury . |
| 16 | A coastal walk with several variants : do the whole coastal stretch , looking round inland and finishing at the visitor centre for the bus back , or start a shorter walk from Coldingham ( walking back along the road or taking the bus ) . |
| 17 | Easing the car into first gear , she set off back along the road , a frown deepening on her face as she was forced to crawl along at a snail 's pace , unable to see more than a couple of feet ahead in the ever-thickening snow . |
| 18 | She could only have driven about a mile , she estimated , but as she trudged back along the road it seemed like a marathon trek . |
| 19 | We drive slowly back along the road . |
| 20 | Back along the road , a forked tongue of lightning struck the taxi . |
| 21 | The hearse went back along the road for a bit , then rose into the sky and vanished into the clouds . |
| 22 | It rolled into a hollow and it took me half an hour to get it one yard back onto the road . |
| 23 | I bent my knees a little to put on the shoulder-strap and left him watching me move back onto the road . |
| 24 | We were , too — at least , the two nearside wheels were , but being the middle of the night there was a fortunate scarcity of pedestrians , and we quickly got back onto the road without disaster . |
| 25 | From the Glenmore car park , go back onto the road and turn right . |
| 26 | I was doing a three-point-turn manoeuvre to get us back onto the road when he woke up , lifted his hat and mumbled : ‘ Where are we ? ’ |
| 27 | If I can get it back onto the road in one piece , I think it will survive . ’ |
| 28 | This time Donna stepped on the accelerator and the Volvo shot forward , dirt and stones spraying up behind it as she guided it back onto the road . |
| 29 | There was no more sound , so he slowly reversed back into the road as the Sturmabteilungen from the gate carne up to investigate . |
| 30 | Tal suddenly made a noise like a tinny victory trumpet and took off , flying back up the road . |