Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] the back " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came back to school after Christmas with 4 of them stuffed in the back of his mini and it just went from there . |
| 2 | " What — with France ? " someone asked from the back . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm very optimistic that we can get the goals , but we do n't need to chase the game right from the start and leave ourselves exposed at the back . |
| 4 | I bought along this brochure , you can have a copy if you like but I mean at the back there are forty five institutions all virtually paddling their own canoe . |
| 5 | The Sheikha and I got in the back while the Sheikh took the wheel . |
| 6 | I got in the back seat with the doctor . |
| 7 | Having failed dismally with a bicycle pump and an unidentified device that I found at the back of my Dad 's garden shed , I stumbled across what seemed like a promising routine and set aside the whole of Boxing Day to test it out . |
| 8 | I moved to the back of my trench as Taff stood up to man the gun . |
| 9 | I scribbled on the back of the one to Joan , ‘ Reggane 10.1.75 — still received no mail . |
| 10 | ‘ Not one of us , ’ someone shouted from the back of the crowd . |
| 11 | So I says round the back or something . |
| 12 | I was due to start Lord Hulton 's tuberculin test at 9.30 a.m. and as I drove round the back of the Elizabethan mansion to the farm buildings nearby I felt a pang of misgiving ; there were no animals in sight . |
| 13 | When the last penitent left I strolled to the back of the chapel and was surprised to see three young contra soldiers gazing rather wistfully in through the door — as if they felt unworthy to set foot inside . |
| 14 | I look at the back of her head for a minute . |
| 15 | Maybe I jump out the back way . |
| 16 | I wipe with the back of my hand … look at this ! — crimson smear — blood ! |
| 17 | Suddenly I heard the noise of an animal jumping through the window , and immediately I hid at the back of my box . |
| 18 | Peter , the things we 're talking about are highly commendable , but I suspect at the back of the minds of most kids at school the question of examinations — whether they 're going to get their O level , or their A level , or their G C E or whatever — to what extent are university people involved in examining ? |
| 19 | The things I pop on the back |
| 20 | ‘ So I climbed into the back seat , ’ he recalled , ‘ stripped off the suit I was wearing and put on my pyjamas , thinking I could dry myself afterwards with the spare pair . |
| 21 | I had already done a couple of jumpers for a largish lady , so I embarked on the back of the third . |
| 22 | I walked round the back to the drill put the lever on and let the corn run , and I drive those horses across the field . |
| 23 | I stare at the back of the driver 's head . |
| 24 | I saw them watching your house and I escaped through the back . |
| 25 | Am I coming in the back ? |
| 26 | Once through the thankyous and the ‘ I never do this kind of thing , ordinarily , ’ I settled in the back , everything blissfully out of my control . |
| 27 | He had mistaken it for an ashtray and I watched from the back seat as he painstakingly flicked his ash on to the small pile of dead matches and cigarette ends that he 'd accumulated in the bowl of the vent . |
| 28 | Jean and I dashed to the back of Danny 's truck and wrenched open the door . |
| 29 | Well they got rid of all those it 's the just cottages I saw round the back . |
| 30 | I looked at the back seat , where a folder lay . |