Example sentences of "with his back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Mary came out , she found him standing still with his back to the sun , looking down the river towards the shady woodlands round Grandtully . |
| 2 | He made one as if he should try and comfort her , but turned away , walked upstage and on the balcony with his back to the audience , raised his arms widely only to drop them helplessly . |
| 3 | As guests sat down to lunch in the company 's magnificent dining room earlier this week , the fellow with his back to the window was asked if there was too much of a draught . |
| 4 | The dead German sitting with his back to the wall that I had passed earlier on had slipped from his position , and was now lying with his blond head in the ditch . |
| 5 | With his back to the door , Mungo sank to his haunches . |
| 6 | He turned and stood with his back to the bar , relaxed , like a cat . |
| 7 | Gomez sat on a bucket with his back to the companionway . |
| 8 | This little girl is English , and the boy with his back to the camera is from Israel . |
| 9 | Paddy was sitting with his back to the Land Rover looking at the map . |
| 10 | He stood with his back to the wall , head up , challenging , his eyes cold and defiant . |
| 11 | Only then did he stand with his back to the fireplace and look about the room . |
| 12 | Johnny was sitting with his back to the window reading when the door was kicked open . |
| 13 | He sat down on a chair with his back to the window and lit a cigarette . |
| 14 | He stood with his back to the fireplace , still glowing with the remains of last night 's fire . |
| 15 | The girls sat down on a large pew-looking bench in the alcove and laughed at Billy who was standing with his back to the blazing logs doing his knee bending policeman act . |
| 16 | Alan Vessey found himself stuck by the touchline near the corner and , with his back to the Bere Forest goal and with limited options , he succeeded in paddle flicking the ball into the top corner of the net for one of the finest goals scored at Crystal Palace in recent years . |
| 17 | Then he went back and sat down beside Marian with his back to the trees . |
| 18 | Even Yā gre has come , standing on his own with his back to the dancers , chewing marigold heads and squirting a jet of yellow pulp into a child 's face . |
| 19 | Forster took up a position with his back to the bows , wedging himself into a corner as Delaney tried the ship 's telephone again , speaking slowly and deliberately . |
| 20 | Willie stood with his back to the fire and stared uneasily up at him . |
| 21 | Owner Louie Lalonde will tell you how Bill broke his own rule by sitting with his back to the door the night Jack ‘ Broken Nose ‘ McCall crept in and shot him . |
| 22 | To photograph the house for the news last night the cameraman must have stood just where he had stood himself , on the edge of the lawn with his back to the cedar tree . |
| 23 | He went out of the room , into the corridor and into his room and there he stood with his back to the door , his mouth wide , gasping at the air , still in fright , yet knowing that in some way he had emerged as if out of a deep canyon . |
| 24 | Her brother sat opposite her with his back to the door devouring hunks of bread smothered with a mixture of peanut-butter and strawberry jam . |
| 25 | He sits by a globe with his back to the police station , looking south towards the Cabo de Hornos Hotel , towards the low hills of Tierra del Fuego and the unseen coast of the distant Antarctic . |
| 26 | Alan Millet stood with his back to the fire , feeling his inadequacy and waited for the woman to settle herself . |
| 27 | The Captain was seated with his back to the door . |
| 28 | ‘ Finished ? ’ said Joe , standing with his back to the closed door . |
| 29 | Mr Parsons had turned to stand with his back to the fire , the eternal male hogging the best place in the room . |
| 30 | He stood with his back to the open window . |