Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] at the back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sorry to butt in but if anybody 's got a car parked at the back here , the warden 's taken all the . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Yesterday afternoon , they discovered a body buried at the back of a house in Swindon 's Old Town . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And then they make you do it — with a gun pointed at the back of your neck . |
| 8 | Allan Ramsay 's engaging portrait of Sir Edward and Lady Turner ( lot 21 , unpublished est. £250,000–350,000 ) , fresh from exhibition at the National Portrait Galleries of Edinburgh and London and sent to auction by the sitters ' descendants , fetched the morning 's top price , as expected , when it sold for £500,000 , an auction record for his work , to an agent bidding at the back of the room on behalf of a private collector against keen competition from David Posnett of Leger , who was the purchaser of a conversation piece by Nathaniel Hone ( lot 26 , est. £40,000–60,000 ) for £36,000 . |
| 9 | She folded her arms over her chest , uncomfortably aware of the shabbiness of her old pink housecoat , uncomfortably aware of an anger sizzling at the back of those eyes . |