Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone pats themselves on the back and goes home . ’ |
| 2 | I clapped him on the back . |
| 3 | I found her in the back kitchen , standing over the chef who was rolling out pastry . |
| 4 | I picture him in the back of his friend 's flat where he is staying . |
| 5 | ‘ I put it to the back of my mind . ’ |
| 6 | I put it in the back of the red thing . |
| 7 | Should I do it on the back of that ? |
| 8 | " Can we get this one right on top there , or should I stick it round the back ? |
| 9 | ‘ I know it like the back of my hand . ’ |
| 10 | You 'll have to wait while I get one from the back store , ’ he said . |
| 11 | His a terrible , so we did n't go near him right through on the playing field , and then Katherine , I found to get , I sat , found a way to get them near Matthew and then Katherine said , I tickled him on the back , and I 'd kept on doing that . . |
| 12 | I saw it in the back of Private Eye . |
| 13 | He gave me a self-conscious grin and then yelped as someone thumped him in the back . |
| 14 | ‘ Someone bashed him on the back of the head with a heavy smooth object . |
| 15 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 16 | I shot him in the back ’ Bailie asked Larkins to hide the gun and warned him that if anything happened to it , he 'd be the next to be ’ blown away ’ |
| 17 | I throw one to the back of the room . |
| 18 | Though disagreeing with the line he had taken , I patted him on the back when he sat down . |
| 19 | This time I patted myself on the back all the way to the hotel . |
| 20 | There was a man who went off to Amsterdam to buy some diamonds , I helped his secretary book his ticket , first class , and his limousine , smooth as clockwork , and as he 's walking along a canal admiring the house fronts someone stabs him in the back , destroys a kidney , gangrene sets in , now he 's dead . |
| 21 | When Nigel came back he lay down on his stomach and held out a big stick which the Mayor clutched and Otley and I pushed him from the back until we got him out none the worse for his adventure . |
| 22 | I mean we 've still got a barren at the back , somebody kicks you at the back on that barren and er in the skeleton that 's exactly like the barren in a monkey 's tail |
| 23 | Tears jumped into Evelyn 's eyes and she started to hurry in the direction of the girls ' barracks , ignoring the missiles which caught her on the back and arms or dropped uselessly on either side . |
| 24 | Erm tells you a lot it would n't erm if somebody hit you in the back you 'd still move if you had the handbrake on . |
| 25 | The light then passes through a small transparent section of the protective outer coating ( the cornea ) , and continues via a lens which focuses it on the back of the retina . |
| 26 | As for O'Leary , it is 3½ years since he had the car accident which left him with a back injury so severe as to necessitate three operations . |
| 27 | I see , you criticize my appearance , and then you stab me in the back ! |
| 28 | She got it in the back of the neck . |
| 29 | As the superintendent cut her way through the herd of lunchtime drinkers , Dexter followed in her wake , like a driver who glues himself to the back of an ambulance careering through busy streets on an emergency call . |
| 30 | You put them on the backs of the calendar card . |