Example sentences of "began [verb] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I climbed into the boat and began to go back to where my friends were . |
| 2 | As he began to sink back into sleep , he relaxed the plugging and the motorboat zoomed in closer and he was awake again . |
| 3 | They began to fall back towards Ace and Petion , pausing where there was cover to shoot back at the Germans on the freighters or on the other side of the docks . |
| 4 | Deborah turned away from the signpost and began wading back through the deep undergrowth to the main path , intending to break into a run when she reached it ; but just as she turned off she heard a faint , distant , reedy cry , which stopped her in her tracks . |
| 5 | Using the same forthrightness as her brother , she took Hilary 's arm in a firm grip and began walking back to the house . |
| 6 | Colour began to come back into the young woman 's cheeks . |
| 7 | People began to come back into the block . |
| 8 | It never stopped raining , and the plague began to come back into London . |
| 9 | He began to come back down the tunnel towards her . |
| 10 | Sitting in the Beans ' kitchen that sense began to come back to her ; not suddenly but slowly , a slow prickle of pity and curiosity , like life returning to a deadened limb . |
| 11 | Slowly she began to come back to reality , and realise that she had been entirely at his mercy . |
| 12 | She looked over her shoulder , shook her head again , and began to walk back towards the stairway to the gallery . |
| 13 | They began to walk back towards the house . |
| 14 | Isobel turned and began to walk back towards the house . |
| 15 | With Thérèse at her side she began to walk back towards the house . |
| 16 | People began to walk back towards the house . |
| 17 | He began to walk back towards the house . |
| 18 | She turned round and quickly began to walk back towards the door . |
| 19 | The brave man turned his back on Silver and began to walk back to the beach . |
| 20 | Commander Zadak began to walk back to his train . |
| 21 | He began to walk back to Madison Square and home — his seat . |
| 22 | With such dignity as I could manage I began to walk back to the village . |
| 23 | when Sir Henry left the house and began to walk back to the Hall |
| 24 | He swung round and began to walk back to Church Row . |
| 25 | And , as the second and third generation of Arab-Americans began to look back across the Atlantic , they were joined by a new wave of immigrants from the Middle East , many of them Lebanese , Palestinians and Iraqis displaced by the political upheavals in the region . |
| 26 | In splinters of thought , unconnectedly , I began to look back over the past three weeks . |
| 27 | The shabby room above the tobacconist 's shop where we held our ward meetings became home to me and , in a queer way , made me feel whole and integrated again so that I began to look back on the activities I had taken part in with Sophie as some kind of mental aberration . |
| 28 | Then , just as Diana Lanchester detached herself and began heading back in Artemis 's direction , one of the huntsmen blew for hounds to move off , and the day began . |
| 29 | On May 23 , 187 political prisoners were released , while defeated or deserting government troops began to drift back to the capital . |
| 30 | When Mr Heseltine started reeling off the figures about increased government spending , his questioner began to shout back at him : ‘ I 'm not interested ! |