Example sentences of "[v-ing] back to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought they 'd gone off my land and started driving back to the house but then suddenly felt a sharp pain in my back . |
| 2 | Driving back to the house through the small back-roads was more difficult than she 'd anticipated , and she took a couple of wrong turnings . |
| 3 | Walking back to the hotel , Rozanov and I were silent for a long time . |
| 4 | Heinrich and Martha were walking back to the Reach hand in hand . |
| 5 | Walking back to the theatre that night , Noreen was extremely tense and said little . |
| 6 | The woman had left the bags and O saw she was walking back to the child , he heard her heels , but O did not stay to see what she did to the child ( and so he did not see her pick the child up in her arms and hold him tight ) ; he turned quickly , and left the station as fast as he could . |
| 7 | Walking back to the end of the train , he found the guard standing on the track beside his brakevan . |
| 8 | You would n't catch me walking back to the house alone at night . |
| 9 | One day , I was walking back to the house , and had my camera with me . |
| 10 | There were several messages for her when she arrived back at the hotel , and she worked at her desk until six before walking back to the house through the gathering dusk . |
| 11 | Using the same forthrightness as her brother , she took Hilary 's arm in a firm grip and began walking back to the house . |
| 12 | He was just walking back to the house when the patrol car came storming up the drive , etching his shadow on the wall . |
| 13 | The next one in was always the one to worry about , not the player walking back to the dressing-room . ’ |
| 14 | Walking back to the club that night and recalling old Martin 's letter , I began to understand some of the qualities that make a successful courtier . |
| 15 | As he watched Melody walking back to the farm , deliberately exaggerating the swing of her hips for his benefit , Seb was thinking of Anna . |
| 16 | Then , walking back to the car , I started rehearsing what I 'd say to them , almost as if I were concocting my story . |
| 17 | This is not the moment to go toddling back to the office to fart about over some fine print in sub-clause seventy-nine with a bunch of anal-retentives from Accounts . ’ |
| 18 | It seemed to be unable to stay underwater without bobbing back to the top . |
| 19 | I picture the old man hopping and pacing to his cottage , finding the paper , finding the passage , transcribing it , bobbing back to the club and slipping the note under my door , in order to set the record straight ; I find myself close to tears . |
| 20 | Looking back to the opening statement of the first article last month , we must remember that in the main we are thinking about these designs as decoration rather than as pure picture-making . |
| 21 | The view looking back to the station and 61094 — its departure was at 16.20 . |
| 22 | Looking back to the period between the two world wars and even to that of 1939–45 , any newcomer to the scene would have foreseen nothing other than a future of amicable and mutually beneficial co-operation . |
| 23 | Cardiff pushed past , and now they were all heading down that corridor past the two elevators on their left ; still looking back to the reception doors lest that monstrous shadow should suddenly reappear . |
| 24 | Looking back to the start of the day , cold and frosty just about says it all . |
| 25 | But if film executives were to be believed , the majority of the audience was less interested in salving their fears about wars and conflicts ahead than in looking back to the time when Britain had a role to play in the world . |
| 26 | Looking back to the time when she could n't find reverse on her company car , Alison contrasted this with her new job responsibilities : ‘ Now I 'm driving over 2,500 miles a month , much of it spent on the M25 . |
| 27 | Looking back to the Constitution of 1884 which [ Dicey ] was analysing … |
| 28 | His face was a mask of alarm and he was looking back to the office door and the cabinet which was pushed up against it . |
| 29 | Comprises three limestone caves ( one of which is the longest in Britain ) all of which illustrate how they served as homes for both humans and animals : including the Bone cave , rich in archaeological evidence with details of the Flintsone-like inhabitants dating back to the Bronze Age . |
| 30 | Part of a coffee grinder is also understood to have been found in the house along with newspapers dating back to the beginning of May . |