Example sentences of "[noun sg] to the back of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She put her disappointment to the back of her mind and concentrated on Dana . |
| 2 | Finding a seat to the back of the church I took a prayer book , and kneeling down began to find the place . |
| 3 | She would make herself a pot of tea , put the confusion to the back of her mind . |
| 4 | FOOTBALL : David Platt has pushed transfer talk to the back of his mind and promised that his only concern is helping Bari to avoid the disaster of relegation . |
| 5 | Next , tape a further background piece to the back of the assembly and cut out all the ‘ B's ’ . |
| 6 | She tried to banish the humiliation to the back of her mind , but it was worse than the physical pain . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , Seb tied the reins of his horse to the back of the cart before sprinting towards the manor house . |
| 8 | Skillfully , Gerrard maneuvered the microphone away from her and moved quickly up the aisle to the back of the audience ; and the camera , pushed by a sweating man in a stained white shirt , followed him . |
| 9 | The reference to the back of beyond had upset Celia considerably . |
| 10 | The swan-white robes were not the possessions of single families but of the community , and every mother whose infant wore a robe made and sewed a tiny bow to the back of the garment , so that it might be recorded how many infants had been christened in it . |
| 11 | Slowly lower the dumb-bell to the back of the head , keeping the upper arm vertical . |
| 12 | Triceps extension — slowly lower the dumb-bell to the back of the head and then press to the vertical position |
| 13 | When the fox is caught , they say , it 's killed swiftly with a single bite to the back of the neck . |
| 14 | During the Saturday morning rehearsal , with Beecham conducting the Vancouver Symphony , the players arranged in tiers from the podium to the back of the stage , a disquieting incident occurred : in the midst of a quiet passage in a Mozart divertimento the tympany player , one George W. Ball , accidentally dropped the cymbal , which rolled down with clanging crashes to rest at the conductor 's feet . |
| 15 | Also hold the inward creases of the pleat to the back of the heading with a few hand stitches at the top of the pleat . |
| 16 | Sylvia left next morning , but however Betty tried , she could n't push her latest dark desire to the back of her mind . |
| 17 | There was not a soul to be seen , and apart from a hammering noise echoing from somewhere distant , and an occasional coughing in a room to the back of the house , there is still no sound to be heard . |
| 18 | Six fish later , I called it a day ; thanked the good Lord for his kindness , strapped the creel to the back of my motor bike , and roared triumphantly home . |
| 19 | R : = best-rule ( CS , Goal-conditions , N ) { say R has action Op name Name } add Name to the back of TRACE |
| 20 | The gravelled drive split into two ; one branch led to the front door , the other to the back of the house and , according to a finger post , to waiting room and surgery . |
| 21 | Lee went right into the shed to the back of it . |
| 22 | A variation on the double palm block 1 : this time , the defender initiates a low kick sweep to the back of the attacker 's kneecap . |
| 23 | THERE are times when life not only kicks you in the teeth , but follows up with the knee in the groin and the rabbit punch to the back of the neck as well . |
| 24 | How many times have you been walking with someone who does that all the time , regardless of climatic considerations , and wanted to deliver a rabbit punch to the back of their neck when they stop for the tenth time that day and begin the ponderous unclipping of their rucksack ? |
| 25 | Do n't allow the thief easy access to the back of your house . |
| 26 | Does your house have a side access to the back of the building ? |
| 27 | And you came , you came and tied his dog to the back of my car . |
| 28 | The Crown argued that , in the same way a deliberate cross-check to the back of the neck might exceed the implied consent to risk of injury in a hockey game , the known presence of HIV is so inherently dangerous that sex with someone who is HIV positive extends beyond the norm of conduct to which one can validly consent . |
| 29 | She had never imagined that a kiss could feel like this , that a man 's arms could enclose and shield her so thoroughly against any other awareness , that her body would respond so passionately and so completely from the roots of her hair to the backs of her knees . |
| 30 | Police said she had suffered a terrible blow to the back of her head but was still alive when she was tossed into the water . |