Example sentences of "with her back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wears big dark glasses and insists on sitting with her back to the throng , coincidentally facing the mirror . |
| 2 | And thus it was that she came to be , on that February evening , poised at the very crown of the hill in Kensington Gardens , looking down the hill , with her back to Bayswater and home and trembling with the fear that she had at last grown up . |
| 3 | ‘ Leave me for a bit , Billy , ’ she says with her back to me , so I go out and sit on my bed . |
| 4 | Standing there with her back to me , she looks more beautiful than I ever seen her . |
| 5 | She 's standing with her back to the window and I can see a sort of thin blue light round her body . |
| 6 | She 's sitting down with her back to me , just like she always used to , and I 'm brushing slow and gentle , making her hair nice and neat . |
| 7 | For the first 10 minutes , she sat with her back to me and refused to turn round . |
| 8 | The Woman nodded , still with her back to him . |
| 9 | Mrs Hollidaye , supping porridge with her back to the flaming range and her face towards the window exclaimed , ‘ Why do look , Dorothy ! |
| 10 | From then on she taught herself always to sit sideways or with her back to a person . ’ |
| 11 | In these scenes an unknown actress , impersonating Harlow 's voice , speaks the lines with her back to the camera or with her face hidden by a wide-brimmed hat ; at the sight of this , Boy simply got up and left the living room , left the end of the film unwatched and just sat in the kitchen with a pot of tea . |
| 12 | She had taken her last look at this obscure outpost of the Soviet Union and now stood with her back to the low sun . |
| 13 | She came in and bolted the door , then stood with her back to it , looking from one to the other . |
| 14 | Miriam was seated in front of the dressing table with her back to him , brushing her hair . |
| 15 | Once more things were happening she had not caused to happen but now there was a difference and she sat with her back to the tree trying to discover what the difference was . |
| 16 | Then , with her back to the door , she sprinkled the rest of the contents of the bowl high into the air and out over the edge of the roof . |
| 17 | The chosen person stands with her back to the rest and throws the ball over her head without looking to see where it lands . |
| 18 | She made a frantic leap to shake them off , as they lifted her back and front nearside feet over the rope and positioned her with her back to the revving Mercedes again . |
| 19 | She sat with her back to the window and Lee felt somewhat at a loss faced , at last , by the elderly woman in the opaque , black-lensed spectacles and the expensive , rather drab suit , framed by sun-rays admitted through the tall crimson-curtained opening . |
| 20 | I kicked the slippers that were there waiting for me out of the way and then we saw her standing with her back to the fire . |
| 21 | With her back to him , she said , ‘ Ryan 's one of the bosses of Noraid . |
| 22 | But he knew why the moment he entered the old schoolroom , for after allowing him to pass her she closed the door and stood with her back to it , her pale face , now tinged to a deep red , thrust out towards him as she cried , ‘ Think you 're smart , do n't you ? |
| 23 | Five minutes later , when he returned to the lawn , she was sitting with her back to the tree and , standing before her , he said , ‘ I do n't know how to thank you for your kindness . |
| 24 | When she returns to Pierre and Claire , they are unwilling to believe what she claims has happened but they drive with her back to the field and Maria finds the opening in the wheat where he is lying . |
| 25 | She stood with her back to the wall , sheltering from the rain : a sober , respectable woman in a burgundy coat and white knitted cap . |
| 26 | Tina would have plumped herself down in the nearest seat even if this had been next to a passenger but Cecilia , conforming to usage , sat in the emptiest area of the coach , on the platform side with her back to the window . |
| 27 | According to William , the man and the woman took all their clothes off and climbed into the bath so the woman was sitting with her back to the man , and the man peed into the water . |
| 28 | She was standing with her back to me , talking with Walt and another guy . |
| 29 | ‘ Apple sauce ? ’ asked Shirley , who was dishing up , with her back to the table , from a hotplate on a trolley . |
| 30 | The one where this governess is told to put on a special dress and sit with her back to the window . |