Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] back towards [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The van slewed wildly , but kept travelling , smoke appearing from its rear tyres as it swerved and skidded back towards the exit . |
| 2 | He burst out laughing , and before she could retort he swivelled and made back towards the stables . |
| 3 | A great cry compounded of rage , sorrow , hatred and vituperation went up from the town walls as the colourful company under the Plantagenet Leopards turned and rode back towards the castle , leaving the slight jerking figure to its dance of death . |
| 4 | When he saw Robert , he made what looked like a little , stunted bow and moved back towards the boys on the lawn . |
| 5 | She stood for several moments in front of the altar before turning away and walking back towards the door . |
| 6 | Finally satisfied that these tableaux held no secrets , they turned round and headed back towards the gallery marked THE ENTERTAINMENT WORLD . |
| 7 | She rolled over and headed back towards the shore . |
| 8 | Next moment , both men were out of the cab and sprinting back towards the blazing house . |
| 9 | He crossed the road , pausing on the kerb and looking back towards the Lancia . |
| 10 | Just for a moment , standing by the window , dropping the edge of the curtain he had lifted and turning back towards the cot , Adam saw the picture again , saw it with an awful clarity on the darkness before his eyes . |
| 11 | The cool air caressed her bare arms , and Folly shivered and turned back towards the house . |
| 12 | Stuart turned to speak and was just in time to see the man snatch the plastic bin from the young assistant and run back towards the door . |
| 13 | He turned and rushed back towards the cage ; but finding the gate barred , he skittered off towards the nearest group of spectators , hotly pursued by his enemy . |
| 14 | He replaced the receiver , scooped his change out of the slot and walked back towards the car , clambering into the passenger side . |
| 15 | They turned and walked back towards the lych-gate . |
| 16 | He flung the book to the ground and stormed back towards the house , leaving Melissa open-mouthed . |
| 17 | After an hour the sun clouded over , so they picked up their things and started back towards the fence where they had left their bicycles . |
| 18 | Daak shrugged , grinned , and started back towards the couches . |
| 19 | She shooed all the geese into a meadow , left them , and started back towards the village again . |
| 20 | When he reached the end of the street , Scott turned and looked back towards the house . |
| 21 | " Okay it 's the cops , " said the lady finally , and strode back towards the house I was thrashing and clawing but with Agnes still slumped on my middle and the whisky bottle and everything I could n't seem to writhe my way upright . |
| 22 | Corbett tugged his cloak around him and strode back towards the priory building , not caring whether he shattered the peace of a convent where so many dark deeds had been committed . |
| 23 | ‘ Go to hell ! ’ she snapped and watched as he laughed and turned then , and strode back towards the barn , whistling cheerfully beneath his breath . |
| 24 | If the material was supplied almost entirely by longshore drift , the profile outside the bar should be continuous with that inside the bar ( Fig. 8.19A ) : if the bar was formed by erosion of the sea floor , the profile outside the bar , if projected back towards the land , should not reach seal level at the coast but some way inland ( Fig. 8.19B ) . |
| 25 | He dumped it down behind the boat-house and went back towards the house , then after a bit he came down again with a picture , and dumped that , then he took the bag and made off up the path with it . ’ |
| 26 | He spun around , dodged another blow from the puzzled guard , and sped back towards the circle , passing on the way the dryads who were pursuing him and leaving them as disorganised as a set of skittles . |
| 27 | She turned , heart pounding , head spinning with the unjustness of his whole attitude , and marched back towards the house , oblivious of everything except her need to get away from that detestable man . |
| 28 | At the last moment she twisted away from him and ran back towards the orderlies . |
| 29 | So we left the remote mountains of the north and west and headed back towards the central highlands and Mount Kenya , the main objective of our visit . |
| 30 | He kicked irritably at the metal fence and then turned and headed back towards the car , hands dug deep into the pockets of his jacket . |