Example sentences of "[prep] the back of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That covers thefts from shops , businesses , things falling off the back of lorries , fraud , arson and robbery . ’ |
| 2 | Who 's seen , who 's seen police signs out the back of police cars that says slow down , danger ? |
| 3 | This suggests that you should sit at arms length from your monitor and should n't site desks so that people sit near the back of monitors . |
| 4 | Do n't bash your pony with the back of brushes . |
| 5 | The industry has come a long way since the day 's of men selling cornets from the back of bicycles . |
| 6 | Henriques also condoned the practice of fiddling coin machines , thieving from lorries and joy-riding : ‘ Again it seems hardly fair to blame children for stealing from the back of lorries , which is such a very common offence , the result , generally , of perfectly innocent joy-riding . ’ |
| 7 | Deaths : Sammy Fain : in Los Angeles aged 87 : one of the last tunesmiths who peddled their songs from the back of trucks and in the dingy hallways of Tin Pan Alley . |
| 8 | I always read those pining paragraphs in the back of magazines , though I never feel like replying ; and I 've just realised why . |
| 9 | Cos they 've got lists of names in the back of dictionaries have n't they ? |
| 10 | Our research was designed to ensure that the field-worker was also around a great deal and was stubborn in exploiting the naturally occurring situations of privacy , where natural conversation is inevitable because it is interactionally difficult to abstain from it , such as in the back of vehicles , in the sanger while on guard duty , relaxing in many of the recreational rooms , or off duty . |
| 11 | All bits , other bits of equipment as well , you 've got sometimes in the back of police cars you 've got brooms and shovels to clear the mess up off the road , yeah have you seen a policeman clearing up the road , saving people |
| 12 | I 've often seen toddlers jumping about in the back of cars ahead of me . |
| 13 | In the hope of saving 100 lives a year , the law now compels the wearing of seat belts in the back of cars : smoking kills three times as many every day . |
| 14 | Others were bundled in the back of vans |
| 15 | For such , ( and I have very clear pictures of them sitting illiterate and uncomprehending in the back of classes ) , school attendance is merely a sort of ‘ protection money ’ to pacify inquisitive authorities . |
| 16 | The 11 year old girl claimed that the boy , who 's sixteen , led her to the back of shops in court road , brockworth in Gloucester . |
| 17 | Backed happily by Safeguard , Rabbit can afford to expand on the back of acquisitions , which the firm points to as being part of its growth policy , whether such acquisitions be based on product or on sales/marketing synergies , in the US and in Europe . |
| 18 | Just two machines , four people and gradually that got up to a reasonable size er i it grew on the back of companies like , , , manufacturing what I call the coordinated look cos knitwear was utilized for bringing other things together . |
| 19 | grandma er said when she went to China and that she saw these bogeys on the back of bikes that they were carrying |
| 20 | The shares trading at around 10p , should gain 50% in value on the back of figures due in December 1987 . |
| 21 | One of the more engaging aspects of this artist 's work is its cheerful , slightly perverse fantasy , where satyrs hitch rides on the back of coaches and nudes swimming in eighteenth-century fountains are menaced by long-necked swans . |
| 22 | Erm me , myself and Steve are currently working on er , health and safety for contractors coming on site purpose to work etcetera and one of reasons why well he than ever before on this , visi visitor 's information when they 're on site on the back of cars it would , it would have been a nice thing to do would have been to have joined the whole lot together . |
| 23 | That competition should attract a new sponsor whether or not the counties decide to follow the Working Party 's advice to consider coloured clothes , names on the back of shirts , white balls and only two men outside the circle in the first 15 overs . |
| 24 | Rank had funded his forays into production on the back of profits accruing from the exhibition of US pictures but , instead of standing firm with the American companies when they announced a boycott of British screens , he decided to boost his own company 's production . |
| 25 | He snarls at motorcyclists , accelerates hard at the back of buses , and views the red traffic light as a challenge rather than a warning . |
| 26 | He 's got the little loop aerials at the back of portables , you know the |
| 27 | And in barns at the back of yards watered by stagnant ponds , the lights burn into the night , and the driving engines clatter like African drums . |
| 28 | Now , if any of you get terribly tense at the back of shoulders which we all seem to do nowadays , if you come for just a back and shoulder massage , we actually work on the back of the neck and along the shoulders using massage movements which helps to relax you , which helps to actually break down the lactic acid that builds up in the muscles that causes you pain . |
| 29 | ‘ He had a place at the back of Belmodes . ’ |