Example sentences of "[prep] the back of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She reached for the back of Nina 's ripped jacket , but only managed to get a handful of hair . |
| 2 | → There are a number of suppliers that can provide the correct style bridge and also the string ferrules for the back of the body — look in the classified section at the back of this issue . |
| 3 | She turned to him and closed her eyes , reaching for the back of his head , pulling his face closer . |
| 4 | A big pale blue moon , shimmering with lurex or a pale silvery one makes a lovely motif for the back of a sweater or jacket , or a fun one if you add a ‘ man in the moon ’ face . |
| 5 | Fabric for the back of the cushion , cut to the same size as the interfacing . |
| 6 | I sighed uneasily and began to cast on stitches for the back of a matinee jacket … |
| 7 | His head sang with pain and his stomach heeled over as he stood up , his hand flailing for the back of a chair to support him . |
| 8 | She seized her valise and struck out for the back of the house and the kitchen . |
| 9 | She 'd sat on the stubby grass , cut short as the back of a soldier 's head . |
| 10 | Places as mysterious to your first Gittel as the back of the moon . ’ |
| 11 | The length of the bush should be 1/8in longer than the distance between the back of the centre and the front face of the tailstock casting , when fully retarded . |
| 12 | On 24th May 1804 he ‘ took a room between the back of the Queen 's Head in Keswick of Mr. Brocklebank at a rent of £8 per Annum for an Exhibition room . ’ |
| 13 | On February 23rd 1804 ‘ left Ambleside with the Fieldings and Ibbetson — took a room between the back of Queen 's Head in Keswick at a rent of £8 per annum for an exhibition room returned and at Wyburn found Mr. & Mrs. Grasmere Ibbetson — drank tea and were very merry . ’ |
| 14 | Then clean out the pastern area between the back of the foot and the ‘ thumb ’ pad in the same way . |
| 15 | and who should be between the back of the houses , but , he said my god , he said , you get everywhere , so I said so do you . |
| 16 | Something about the back of a man 's neck would remind me of him . |
| 17 | It was partly because these artificial agglomerations soon broke up that we were left at the finish with a lot of little scraps , which nobody , when not talking through the back of his head , could mistake for potential nations . |
| 18 | To wire an ivy leaf , push half a length of wire through the back of the central vein , one third down from the point of the leaf . |
| 19 | The bodies of Richard Paul , aged 20 , and his uncle Raymond Dragseth , aged 47 , a professor of computer science at Panama Canal College , were found shot through the back of the head in a building near the Vatican Embassy in Panama yesterday . |
| 20 | An armed response unit reached the bank within minutes and a police helicopter hovered overhead , but the robber had escaped through the back of the building empty-handed . |
| 21 | I says , ‘ It 's a 7-iron , ’ thinking , ‘ This is where we came in ! ’ , and he hits it through the back of the green . |
| 22 | His ball bounced through the back of the green and he did n't get up and down for a birdie . |
| 23 | The strings on the guitar are fed through the back of the bridge , Ovation fashion , which saves the ‘ pulling teeth ’ experience of changing strings on a normal peg bridge . |
| 24 | All four had been shot through the back of their heads with a single bullet as they slept . |
| 25 | Norman , meanwhile , sent his approach shot through the back of the green and needed another two to get down . |
| 26 | Bodie loosed off a shot through the back of the vehicle . |
| 27 | WITHIN THE first five minutes of Phallus In Wonderland , a surly youth vomits over a tramp , has a hook shoved through the back of his head and is transported off to a distant planet to meet cartoon barbarian grunge rockers GWAR . |
| 28 | The only adult survivor of the attack testified to the military court investigating the killings that her relatives were shot through the back of the head after being made to lie face down on the floor . |
| 29 | He had come through the back of the coffee shop yard , through the kitchen , out onto the verandah . |
| 30 | I knew the clubhouse well from my amateur days and I quickly turned left , went through the main lounge ( to the horror of one member who recognised me not as a former amateur golfer but as a caddie , God dammit ) , through the back of the already busy bar and through the goods entrance , or exit in this case . |