Example sentences of "on the back of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dan Wagoner 's own new work , first staged in Plymouth in October , has a jokey title , Turtles All The Way Down , and has something to do with a Bertrand Russell lecture when it was suggested that the Earth is not round but carried on the back of a giant tortoise which stands on turtles all the way down . |
| 2 | Also hanging on the back of the door was the hot water-bottle that his Mum filled for him when he had tonsilitis . |
| 3 | Gloria took it from him to hang on the back of the door . |
| 4 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 5 | Cashmere sports jackets hung on the back of their chairs , insurance against an encounter with air-conditioning . |
| 6 | Peering through the kitchen window she could see the remains of three breakfasts and her daughter 's new green coat hanging on the back of the kitchen door . |
| 7 | Mr Gillis was nick-named the Butcher because in summer he wore a white trilby hat which he hung on the back of the door of his tiny glass-walled office in the corridor just outside the gymnasium . |
| 8 | It was an effort to reach up for my dressing-gown which was hanging on the back of the door and I felt bitter against Richard because he did n't see that I was ill and come to help me . |
| 9 | He fumbled about on the table , felt in the pockets of the odorous hawk-training jacket which hung on the back of the door , told his sister to try the cupboard . |
| 10 | He found her new white Christmas-present nightdress hanging on the back of the dressing-room door , and heaved her into it , then opened the bed , and pushed her between the sheets . |
| 11 | Jacques Devraux held himself ramrod straight on the back of his stocky saddle pony and delivered his order to his son in a vehement undertone . |
| 12 | Her coat hung on the back of the door , her handbag stood open on the side . |
| 13 | From the top drawer of her chest-of-drawers she took a pad and went to fetch her biro from the handbag hanging on the back of the door . |
| 14 | In the stunned silence George Felse got up , without speaking , and crossed the room to where Gus 's jacket hung on the back of a chair , turned towards the replenished fire , and steamed gently as it dried . |
| 15 | Just to see his silk dressing-gown hanging on the back of the door or his watch lying on the edge of the basin , stirred an unfathomable excitement in her . |
| 16 | She was unsurprised to find a long silk bathrobe neither masculine nor feminine hanging on the back of the door . |
| 17 | Wrapping herself in the pink kimono hanging on the back of the bedroom door , she went softly down the stairs to the kitchen . |
| 18 | and she put on the back of this one she was thankful that at least I 'd managed this time to get the mark in the area where it should have been in the first |
| 19 | Early visitors to Madeira and Porto Santo were rowed to the beach when the sea was calm and were then carried on the backs of boatmen who rolled up their trousers and waded ashore . |
| 20 | His jackets were hung on the backs of chairs , his triumphantly acquired groceries were stacked in the sitting-room , his cigar butts filled the ashtrays and his glasses had made rings on the surface of the poolside table . |
| 21 | She sees her wig and familiar clothing , dry now , still hanging on the backs of chairs to one side of a dead fire . |
| 22 | Passengers had perforce to ride , and goods were carried on the backs of packhorses or mules . |