Example sentences of "[adv] on his back [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Taff lay down on his back on the floor of the trench , oblivious to the mosquitoes and everything else and was soon snoring loudly .
2 While the other patients crowded outside and Miss Sowerby tried to keep them in order , Alec motioned to the father to carry the boy into the ‘ ops ’ theatre and lay him down on his back on the operating table so that we could make a more detailed examination .
3 He said : ‘ Gary ended up on his back with the cross bar on his chest area .
4 ‘ father brought me up here on his back in the spring one year , and I sat in the moor while he and old Donald were digging peats .
5 as if in slow motion she had seen Benny travel backwards through the air , landing heavily on his back among the rubbish that littered the end of the garden .
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