Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] back towards the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I turned back towards the crowd . |
| 2 | Frightened , I turned back towards the boats , but the figure appeared again and moved with the speed of an animal . |
| 3 | From the path below I looked back towards the house . |
| 4 | Driving the Felder , I looked back towards the ranch and found it had disappeared . |
| 5 | As she came back towards the drawing-room , Robert was waiting in the hall . |
| 6 | Desperately , she turned back towards the room and tried to apply her mind to more practical matters . |
| 7 | She turned back towards the kitchen and the dogs ' suppers . |
| 8 | Spinning round , kicking a heap of empty cider bottles out of her way , she raced back towards the entrance , not stopping now to feel her way , cannoning off the walls in the darkness . |
| 9 | Then she rushed back towards the stairs , almost falling in her haste to get back to the ground floor . |
| 10 | Slowly she walked back towards the gates of the Hall . |
| 11 | As she walked back towards the Presbytery to interview Father Kipling , she did not feel unhappy any more . |
| 12 | With a little grimace she walked back towards the bed , and then leaned against one of the posts . |
| 13 | She glanced back towards the narrow terrace and said , ‘ It 's very nice . |
| 14 | She started back towards the house . |
| 15 | Staggering to her feet she looked back towards the wounded man ; he had slumped to the floor , and was trying to push himself back to a kneeling position . |
| 16 | She looked back towards the fig tree and saw that the toad had lumbered off into the tangled garden , perhaps to rejoin its tormentor . |
| 17 | When she looked back towards the house , Carla 's face was at the window , peering out like a sailor 's wife watching for masts at the quayside . |
| 18 | Not knowing what else to say , she looked back towards the stage area in time to see a man with a fiddle emerge from a side-room , and all conversation magically hushed . |
| 19 | We went back towards the house . |
| 20 | We ran back towards the Solent for a rest day at Southampton . |
| 21 | Obediently , resignedly , he swings the car round in a dangerous U-turn at the next intersection and they flash back towards the airport , the jewel factories and towerblocks of the Bangkok suburbs thinning out again to the dim outlines of swampy fields pierced by palmtree plantations . |
| 22 | They headed back towards the club house . |
| 23 | He pulled the window up quickly and it was too dark for her to see him step back towards the house . |
| 24 | They walked back towards the lawn in a procession at the pace of Richard 's small strides until he stumbled over a tussock of grass , admitted that he was tired and accepted a ride on the detective 's shoulders . |
| 25 | Graham asked as they walked back towards the main Concourse . |
| 26 | Diane said as they walked back towards the pickup . |
| 27 | So she had been right about Rebecca after all , she thought as they walked back towards the main part of the house . |
| 28 | Merrill kept her face averted as they walked back towards the Abbey . |
| 29 | They walked back towards the houses , the clownish little man and the thin child — watching him , Nick thought he looked thinner than he had done a month ago . |
| 30 | He knew that it had been a joke , because when it was over his father laughed so much that the laughter was still echoing around them as they started back towards the light . |