Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the back " in BNC.
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| 1 | With an Auriga fitted to the back of his Swift he was right on the pace at Brands Hatch , qualifying up the grid , only to have his hopes dashed when he was adjudged to have left the pits against a red light during practice . |
| 2 | Their hired Vauxhall Astra which was travelling thirty miles an hour crashed into the back of an army convoy and caught fire . |
| 3 | Allan Ramsay 's engaging portrait of Sir Edward and Lady Turner ( lot 21 , unpublished est.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 . |
| 4 | There 's an alley running along the back of the gardens . |
| 5 | 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 . |