Example sentences of "[noun] at [art] back " in BNC.

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1 The remaining basement space was devoted to poster printing machines , and the furnace at the back , where the asbestos cards , each in the form of a page , were placed in moulds for molten lead to flow around them producing curved plates , one for each page .
2 From a swift glance at the back of a person 's head I can at once estimate the intelligence and sexuality of that person .
3 But Anya makes no comeback , apart from a quick , razor-sharp glance at the back of Rainbow 's head .
4 They were all sitting on the stone terrace at the back of the house when she opened the garden gate and started up the path .
5 Then , not even glancing at the room beyond , or at a woman who had come out on to the stairs , she led him away to a small room of perfect luxury at the back of the house , which was clearly her own .
6 Cos I 've been silly in the past , I 've told Evelyn lots of times and we had a new machine , a rapid na nailer , it er nailed er army sho er soles onto the at five hun it used to do three hundred and fifty nails a minute and we m made one just for I er went out on the road , er to five hundred a minute you see , and er we were building the first half a dozen and er er there 's two pawls at the back of the machine
7 The gearbox number is located on the selector cover on the top of the main box stamped on the right hand side at the back .
8 One individual , however , can never be visible to all fans at the back of the terrace , and for this reason more than one chant leader is required .
9 The parkland at the back of the Villa Reale is separated by a fence from the Boschetti di Via Marina , the little wood of the Via Marina , an elegant tree-lined street designed by Piermarini but now thoroughly ruined by the car park of ACI , the Italian Automobile Club .
10 Dexter sensed a prickly atmosphere in the room — a chill on the hairs at the back of his neck , an almost eerie silence .
11 Most of the signals are only noted subconsciously but , with a little effort , it is quite easy to become more aware of them so that , should a warning bell ring at the back of your head , you will know it is time to be careful .
12 I had composed that party political broadcast in a small bedroom at the back of the Buccleuch Arms Hotel at St Boswells , Roxburghshire , the reason being that after ten years at Piers Place , Old Amersham , we had decided to move .
13 A picture dictionary at the back of the book explaining the words used in the passages .
14 A useful picture dictionary at the back of each book helps pupils with new words .
15 A full-colour picture dictionary at the back of each book provides another delightful resource .
16 Sample page from the picture dictionary at the back of Toy Box Pupil 's Book
17 When he opened the door downstairs , he heard the roar of a motorboat leaving from the boathouse at the back .
18 The applause , scattered at first , thickened , took on a note of real enthusiasm , and tinny music could be heard threading through it , and then J. J. Gerrard was coming through the wide entrance at the back of the dais , his rather fat face heavily serious over his pink shirt , walking purposefully to the chair in the center .
19 A gent bid at the back at eighteen pound ?
20 One eighty one ninety two hundred two twenty two forty sixty two eighty three hundred and twenty three twenty bid at the back on the left at three twenty , anybody else at three hundred and twenty pounds ?
21 Lot number sixty eight Lot sixty eight is another one there we are that one is showing for a hundred pounds at one ten , one twenty , one thirty bid , and s one forty one fifty sixty one seventy eighty one ninety two hundred two twenty two forty two forty bid at the back and selling for two forty , all done at two hundred and forty .
22 A crowd of eager ‘ punters ’ , and the illegal betting-shop on the waste-ground at the back of Budhill Avenue were also carted off lock , stock and blackboard .
23 Voices rose from the waste-ground at the back of the house — they were discussing how to chain up the dog .
24 And when she did at last enter the music room — through the door from the arboretum — she found herself a seat at the back , at the end of a row .
25 He was given an immediate Critics ' Award and a seat at the back .
26 I quickly slid into a seat at the back , and sat back to observe proceedings .
27 Two coats had been stolen from a car at the back of Cross Street , but the thief was later arrested and cleared of the Oliver case .
28 He parked the car at the back of the house .
29 The black wings and running-board set off the sober mole colour of the body , and the President glowed as he proudly explained the working of the controls and gear lever , opened the doors to display the interior with its adjustable foot-rests for the rear-seat passengers and obliged a request from one admirer to see how much space there was in the luggage compartment at the back .
30 There were sometimes they , they came , if they 'd been in action and er , the people had actually found blood and parts of the uniforms in the air gunner 's compartment at the back , and the , the fella , the navigator u and bomb aimer used to be in the nose , they had n't got much of a chance if they came down in there because they were right cut off from the rest of the aircraft so , but it was virtually a suicide position in the nose of the Bostons .
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