Example sentences of "[prep] the back [conj] " in BNC.

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1 I have few comments to make , except that the sack survived very well , save for some sections of the Advent material used for the back and inside the shoulder straps , which were eaten by salt-seeking grasshoppers !
2 The body of this guitar is made from mahogany for the back and sides , with an attractive birdseye maple top .
3 A more sober approach to decoration might be more in keeping with the guitar , given that the basic quality of materials is so high : a Brazilian mahogany neck , an ebony fingerboard , a Sitka spruce top with some lovely hazelling on the treble side , and some truly spectacular wood for the back and sides .
4 All Lakewood acoustics are built from solid woods throughout — top , back , sides , edge-binding , the lot — and these two are essentially the same guitar , but with different decoration and different woods for the back and sides .
5 Enter the basic rectangle shape for the back and front and knit .
6 ‘ There are four , ’ Sir Richard explained , ‘ one for the front , one for the back and one for each side of the cart .
7 When sat in , part of the dome depressed into the seat while the remainder provided firm support for the back and legs .
8 The straps can be slackened to allow greater air circulation between the back and the sack if sweating becomes a problem .
9 and she had er hand put through the back and er all the glass shattered .
10 Whitlock activated the switch on the dashboard and the glass slid into place , sealing off the back and front seats of the car .
11 The person on duty disappeared out the back and I went to sit in the same seat where I had sat the night before .
12 She quickly disappeared out the back and came around the front to greet me .
13 I only just taken his bike for him cos it went a bit rusty cos out the back and er could n't find then could we ?
14 In Camarvon The only thing is , see what I 'm scared of now , you go and put the mower in there and cart it out the back and the bits of moss dropping off the mower onto that patch !
15 Yeah and we see a lorry with a bloke he was doing like that looking out the back and we all go Ahhhh !
16 and a cup of coffee and a cigarette , and I always do that but this day I was so tired after the doing the garden , both gardens like and fucking weeding them all and doing everything else and brushing out the back and doing I said to him for fuck 's sake do them dishes for me for a change William would you I said , so I got er got myself in the bath said I 'm away to bingo , so William 's gone out what happened ? eight , I had eight he had one you may get yourself I said ah fuck no wonder I have no fucking luck , so on the settee and said I 'm not going anywhere , I sat for ten minutes then I said ah fuck you why should I sit here so I lifted the car keys and walked out again then , fucking zooming out of and there was John coming up like that
17 It can be , yeah we had a stop for lunch , we had to have cups of tea , we had to go to ou , out the back and have a fag cos we ca n't smoke in the office .
18 And we 've got out the back as well cos we did away with some of the vegetable garden because I mean
19 Did you notice in the front of the back so you must remember to take back .
20 Lie face down on the floor with your hands touching in the small of the back and your legs straight out and together .
21 These patients can experience many kinds of problems when in a different environment such as increased stiffening of the back and limbs due to lack of exercise because they find it so difficult to get out of the hospital chair ; and incontinence for the same reason .
22 The hinges are arranged in bands across the middle of the back and vary in number according to the species .
23 The vines look like columns of gnarled old men in perfect formation ; they are all face on , bent almost double , as if with one arm dug into the pit of the back and the other seeking the support of a stick .
24 Rightly , the decoration is simple and understated ; a single thin black line separating the spruce from the maple binding , a well-proportioned herringbone soundhole rosette , a marquetry stripe down the centre of the back and small pearl dot-markers running up the fingerboard .
25 The body is neatly bound in cream-coloured plastic , with a matching cream line up the centre of the back and running between back and front , at the strap button .
26 The bullet , fired at point-blank range , hit him in the middle of the back and travelled upwards and out of his body .
27 There would be no sense in trying to use plants , as Uaru are voracious consumers of vegetation ; and I would follow my usual practice of painting the outside of the back and ends of the tank black — I normally use blackboard paint .
28 So I pulled to the side and I had n't changed a tyre for a long time , but I got the jack out of the back and started to jack the car up , and while I was doing it , these two ladies went , ‘ Ah , it 's Sting ’ .
29 Place the right sides of the back and front pieces together , pin , and tack along one side .
30 The chestnut red neck , and the distinctive black and white patterning of the back and head and belly were clearly visible as neighbouring geese spread themselves to either side .
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