Example sentences of "[vb past] back [prep] [art] road " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shot a quick look sideways at her before he headed back to the road . |
| 2 | They left the shop and headed back along the road , Sammy crawling miserably along behind them . |
| 3 | So as not to have to watch the empty road for the postman on the day that the results were due each girl went separately deep into the fields but they were n't able to stay alone for long ; and each time they came back to the road it was still empty . |
| 4 | She could only have driven about a mile , she estimated , but as she trudged back along the road it seemed like a marathon trek . |
| 5 | He then grabbed the reins and drove back along the road , leaving the wounded post-boy to stagger to the nearest village . |
| 6 | He flourished the bloody sword at them in a mocking salute , then trotted back to the road . |
| 7 | There was no more sound , so he slowly reversed back into the road as the Sturmabteilungen from the gate carne up to investigate . |
| 8 | He glanced to and fro as he walked back across the road , but no-one was there . |
| 9 | In the reflection on the glass door he thought he saw a red glow from his car , and glanced back across the road . |
| 10 | We were , too — at least , the two nearside wheels were , but being the middle of the night there was a fortunate scarcity of pedestrians , and we quickly got back onto the road without disaster . |
| 11 | Soon , we taxied back down the road while cars blocked other traffic for us to take off . |
| 12 | The hearse went back along the road for a bit , then rose into the sky and vanished into the clouds . |
| 13 | He said goodbye and went back by the road . |
| 14 | He looked back to the road where yet more French cavalry had appeared , and he knew it could not be long before the first French eight-pounder cannon arrived . |
| 15 | When she looked back at the road , the red saloon was coming towards her . |
| 16 | While he was getting ready , I wandered back to the turning where I 'd left Armstrong and looked back across the road . |
| 17 | He looked back from the road , and could still see her in her white dress , standing modestly apart from the dancers . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She jumped to her feet , and hurried back along the road to Weatherbury . |
| 20 | The houses were spacious , detached , each one built to an individual design and set back from the road in well-kept gardens : it was the posh part of town . |
| 21 | Vic 's house , at the end of the village , was detached and set back from the road behind a neat lawn . |
| 22 | The pension is situated about 10 minutes walk from the village , set back from the road . |
| 23 | It was about a mile from the village , set back from the road , with tall iron gates , securely locked , at the entrance , and a few yards inside them a lodge . |
| 24 | Past a house that was larger , set back from the road , beyond a lawn on which the rain made ponds , and he saw the flash of an old woman 's face at a window and then the falling of a lace curtain . |
| 25 | I was directed up through the town , past some municipal gardens to a small building set back from the road . |
| 26 | It had small , dark windows in a main building set back from the road behind a staff block and a perimeter wall of newer red brick . |
| 27 | Her eyes were drawn by the impenetrable blackness of the alleys between the parade of houses opposite , a clutch of raucous youths tumbling out of a Victorian plastic pub on the corner and a drunk dressed in a greasy jacket sitting on a bench set back from the road . |
| 28 | Far ahead of her , Sabine could see a cluster of buildings , obviously a farm , but on her left , set back from the road across an expanse of roughly cropped grass and stones , was a smaller property , whitewashed walls , and earth-red tiles , standing alone . |
| 29 | The Mercedes slid to a halt outside a fair-sized , 1930s detached house set back from the road by a small garden which had thoughtfully been concreted over . |
| 30 | 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 . |