Example sentences of "[be] sitting [prep] the back " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll be sitting at the back and I do n't want anybody showing up the firm , asking questions , telling tales , you get my meaning ? ’ |
| 2 | I 'm sitting at the back |
| 3 | Although he had been fortunate to have been sitting at the back of the coach he received a fractured spine . |
| 4 | They have been sitting in the back of the mini-van , swapping football scores and smoking cigarettes . |
| 5 | ‘ Has anyone seen Christine or Robert King ? ’ she asked , turning to the others who were sitting at the back of the hall . |
| 6 | Well it 'll take fucking ages and it 'll be very uncomfortable for you , whoever 's sitting in the back . |
| 7 | Here it is seen on a private hire : Walter Luff is sitting at the back of the saloon . |
| 8 | Erm , what happens of course , is th that the lecture is brilliantly delivered , er , but , but , what happens is he , the chauffeur finishes two minutes early and the chairman , being excellent as a Chairperson , actually says , we have time for just one question , and er , someone stands up and asks the most dreadful question from the audience , and er , the chauffeur listens to the question , thinks , and th then says , that 's questions very easy , very easy indeed , that question is so easy , I 'm going to ask my chauffeur who is sitting at the back of the room |
| 9 | At the very last minute Nessie handed the pig bucket to Tim , who was sitting at the back with Kevin and the children ready to jump off at the road end . |
| 10 | I was sitting at the back of the 17th green at the Scottish Open this year watching the action . |
| 11 | At the end of the reading there was some consternation but Eliot , who was sitting at the back of the room , was heard to mutter , " It 's a good poem , it 's a very good poem " . |
| 12 | And er very straight-faced in fact , and she was sitting at the back of the room , and I , I 'd just said to everybody , I said nobody here 's got a life purchased annuity , have they ? |
| 13 | Charles was sitting at the back of the hall with Malcolm Harris , and kept feeling the author tense as another of his speeches was chopped up and destroyed . |
| 14 | On Friday Madge Grimsilk was sitting at the back of the stalls again . |
| 15 | The severe turbulence , with the jet bucking up and down as it encountered windshear , had Myeloski wishing he was sitting in the back . |
| 16 | It was only when he was sitting in the back of the car that he actually thought of the risk he was taking . |
| 17 | Twenty minutes later she was sitting in the back of her big black car , drinking a cup of coffee and talking to the Chief of Airport Police on the car telephone . |
| 18 | ‘ She was sitting in the back of this car , all dressed up , and I remember saying to her , ‘ You do n't have to do this , you know ’ . |
| 19 | The van , being driven by David William Crease , 21 , went out of control on a straight stretch of unclassified road , crushing Mr Chapman who was sitting in the back . |