Example sentences of "back down [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But we can not back down every time a group of tenants get up a petition against another tenant . |
| 2 | Pascoe took the lift back down a floor . |
| 3 | There were other reasons for insecurity , too : no matter how much material prosperity had come a family 's way , there was still every chance that illness or a premature death might send them all back down a snake at a much faster speed than they had been able to climb up a ladder . |
| 4 | While Mr Stych was canoeing back down a tributary of the Mackenzie– already dangerous with chunks of ice , to an appointment with a helicopter , Mr Frizzell was trying on his last year 's brocade waistcoat and finding it too small ; Mr MacDonald , Ian 's father , was winding up a trying compensation case for his insurance company at Vermilion ; and Mr MacDonald ( oil ) was trying to explain to his superiors in Sarnia , Ontario , why he must be back in a place like Tollemarche by the middle of December . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've got something to show you , ’ he said , and disappeared back down the passage . |
| 6 | As he walked back down the cul-de-sac McLeish found a demarcation line , so precise it might have been achieved by running a tape across the road , where the commercial element stopped and flat-fronted , early Victorian terraced houses , took over . |
| 7 | But as I 've already told you just , it was very ironical that I should l go back down the hole in er Germany again . |
| 8 | Lights were already showing back down the road along which they had come , and in the distance there was the sound of shots being fired . |
| 9 | She gazed intently back down the road . |
| 10 | Soon , we taxied back down the road while cars blocked other traffic for us to take off . |
| 11 | No.2 Troop led the way back down the road towards the beach headquarters , followed by No.6 with No.l as rearguard . |
| 12 | Wait until the driver or the passenger has got out of the car and , as they approach you , quickly reverse back down the road so that you are out of their reach and have room to manoeuvre . |
| 13 | Then he came roaring back down the road in a cold fury . |
| 14 | Regardless of the shape you 're in at the finish , only a glutton for punishment will relish the long haul back down the road to the car . |
| 15 | Go back down the road . |
| 16 | Molly drove skilfully back down the road , taking the short cut to what she had already grown to think of as home . |
| 17 | Richmann glared back down the road at the settling dust , and seethed that two men with only a double-barrelled shotgun could get away from him . |
| 18 | He pointed back down the road to where his travelling companion was still approaching , having adopted a method of riding that involved falling out of the saddle every few seconds . |
| 19 | back down the road … and further Solar Flair is still going … they 've cracked it at last … and are up to forty five miles an hour … next stop is Adelaide the city that closes its streets to grand prix cars … today … the roads are open and the crowds out to welcome them in … |
| 20 | He reversed his car and prepared to drive back down the road . |
| 21 | Well I went dow back down the Road cos there was a traffic jam and er I sort of went down oh sorry mate went down a road like which I thought was a good short cut , and they 've got a lot of these roads and they 've put like pavements across the end of them with bollards , and I went back and then there was a traffic jam and I got stuck because they were unloading a lorry so I 've been er basically pissed about . |
| 22 | He let in the estate agent and took him over the house , into the drawing room and the dining room , upstairs to the Pincushion Room , the Centaur Room , the Room of Astonishment , the Deathbed Room , the Room Without a Name , and then back down the back stairs to that jumble of kitchens and scullery and washhouse and coal-store , most of it a nineteenth century addition . |
| 23 | Back down the camber . |
| 24 | The nest is ripped apart and the pallid thin-skinned grubs passed back down the column for slaughter . |
| 25 | ‘ If I got to have it done , I 'll go back to the place I was before , back down the Duke 's Ferry Road . |
| 26 | Jump down and go right , cross the river on the cake and go up on the platforms , collect the cocoa bean at the top of the platforms , go back down the platforms , go left across the river , jump up on the sherbet fountain and collect the blue object above you , go straight left along the platforms and throw the blue object at the button to start the lift , go up on the lifts and collect the cocoa bean , go down , left , down , left across the rivers and into the cup to complete the level . |
| 27 | Where the terrain increases in difficulty , or the whole party is forced onto the same flank , the leader climber can place sling and nut runners , which are clipped back down the rope and collected by the last member . |
| 28 | I scrambled back down the ratlines , rushed to the cockpit and down the companionway hatch . |
| 29 | ‘ XYZ ’ is rooted much further back down the racks of dog-eared discs in the second-hand shops where Moose once worked , back to C&W , maverick balladeers and songwriters like Jim Webb , Lee Hazelwood , Gram Parsons and Fred Neil ( whose ‘ Everybody 's Talkin' ’ gets charmingly worked over here ) rather than soundscapers . |
| 30 | We drove back down the West side , through the Waipoua Forest which is still quite extensive and contains a few giant kauris , magnificent , almost unbelievably huge when you get up to them . |