Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the back " in BNC.
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| 1 | WITHIN THE first five minutes of Phallus In Wonderland , a surly youth vomits over a tramp , has a hook shoved through the back of his head and is transported off to a distant planet to meet cartoon barbarian grunge rockers GWAR . |
| 2 | A figure crawled round the back of the crowd towards the bicycle . |
| 3 | ‘ I just saw a car run into the back of another car and a lorry ended up going sideways ’ , Sacco went on . |
| 4 | Sorry to butt in but if anybody 's got a car parked at the back here , the warden 's taken all the . |
| 5 | So if a bloke goes in the back of us er er by the bonnet , caught up with the before we start out what what . |
| 6 | At this there was a loud outburst of laughter , and everyone looked at a girl sitting at the back , who , scarlet in the face , ran out of the room , sobbing . |
| 7 | I witnessed an accident where a vehicle collided into the back of another one , pushing it completely across the crossing . |
| 8 | I had found a chiton living on the back of a rock which had a zoanthid colony growing on it . |
| 9 | He did n't know Ken was there until he heard a cackle coming from the back of the stalls . |
| 10 | Yesterday afternoon , they discovered a body buried at the back of a house in Swindon 's Old Town . |
| 11 | A tube runs from the back of the body chamber into the flotation tanks at the rear so that the animal can flood them and adjust its buoyancy to float at whatever level it wishes . |
| 12 | A NEWSPAPER removed from the back of a drawer proved to be dated 2 August , 1897 . |
| 13 | Some experienced speakers ask a friend to stand against the back wall and signal with hands facing forward by their ears if you need to speak louder , and with hands horizontal if you should speak more softly . |
| 14 | The masks were introduced in 1986 : it was argued that since tigers normally attack prey from behind rather than face-to-face , a mask worn on the back of the head should be a deterrent . |
| 15 | Police are hunting two youths after a businessman was threatened with a handgun , and a woman kicked in the back and then robbed . |
| 16 | There was another police car at the kerb , with a woman sitting in the back . |
| 17 | You need a door to get out the back , do n't you ay ? |
| 18 | There was no response and the meeting continued on another tack until a man came from the back of the room with a story about how he had , in the pitch black night , walked straight into a lamp post on his way home the night before : hence the severe head pains . |
| 19 | When the shapeless Blob cornered the heroine Tina , a voice came from the back of the stalls , ‘ You 're all right Tina , he 's got no thingy . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Sergeant Bird ! ’ a voice yelled from the back . |
| 21 | Aunt Ema wore a scarf knotted at the back of her head in the way particular to women of the Kras , and she was always smiling . |
| 22 | A FARMER shot in the back by a booby-trap gun made the machine himself to scare foxes , police said yesterday . |
| 23 | The Ferghana party secretary was shot and slightly wounded when he tried to address a crowd ; and 5,000 men armed with automatic rifles and pistols were reported to have stormed party and government buildings in the ancient city of Kokand ( if Izvestiya 's report was to be believed , they carried a portrait of Lenin in front of them with a message written on the back of it which called for the slaughter of all Turks and Russians and ended ‘ Long live the Islamic republic and Ayatollah Khomeini ’ ) . |
| 24 | When Coffin got back to his own flat , all he found there in the way of post was an enigmatic postcard from his sister Laetitia : she had sent him a view of Edinburgh from the air , with a message scribbled on the back : I am going to the law . |
| 25 | R.B. Kitaj 's ‘ Rock garden ’ ( lot 42 , est. $200–300,000 ) , his major statement on Jewish anguish , was bought by a bidder seated at the back of the room for $140,000 ( £77,800 ) . |
| 26 | And that 's where he moved from here over the road and after then he used to have his own , see , he had a slaughterhouse built at the back , see , he done away with the slaughterhouse down the piste and he used to kill all his stuff there . |
| 27 | He watched her for several seconds before the casual motion of a hand raised to the back of her neck and run up through her long hair identified the silhouette as Judith . |
| 28 | ‘ The house is a bungalow , with a studio built on the back of it , facing out to sea . |
| 29 | ‘ There ! ’ he said abruptly and threw the plane straight again , but this time dropping the nose , and I saw a jeep churning dust from the dirt road which ran the length of the island 's long shank , between the golf course and the houses , and just as I saw the jeep so the red tracer bullets began climbing from a machine-gun mounted in the back of the vehicle . |
| 30 | A plate pushed to the back of the table bore the remains of the Irishman 's breakfast : little curls of bacon rind , stains of yellow yolk and the lacy brown edges of eggs fried to a crisp in the pan . |