Example sentences of "[verb] at the back " in BNC.
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| 1 | This fresco is mirrored by another that can be seen from Via Falcone at the back of the church . |
| 2 | Valderrama is still their main inspiration and , as they showed in the play-off against Israel , their team is well organised at the back with the ability to strike quickly on the break . |
| 3 | Then some grass , and a dark green van , and doors opening at the back of it , and grey flat people moving in a white square . |
| 4 | A tiny , half-formed thought rose at the back of Marion 's mind . |
| 5 | From a Bazil cross Lynas rose at the back post to head into the bottom corner of the net with eight minutes to go . |
| 6 | Brief biographical details about each of the authors appear at the back of the book , as do comprehensive Teacher 's Notes . |
| 7 | The retina itself is located at the back of the eye , and here the visual image forms , being transmitted to the brain via the optic nerve . |
| 8 | A more fundamental design fault is the positioning of our noses above our mouths , which requires our food and air passages to meet at the back of the throat , an arrangement which exists because the nostril in fish is not a breathing passage , but an opening to a chemical sense organ . |
| 9 | The dancers engage in playful sport , dressed in simple turtle-coloured costumes , while Wagoner stands at the back as some kind of pondering philosopher figure . |
| 10 | Do you like the individual wrought-iron bottle stands at the back ? |
| 11 | Oh , but I forgot , Buddy is a ‘ genuine fan ’ ( ha , ha ) who probably just stands at the back , looking at everybody else wondering whom he can slag . |
| 12 | Oh , but I forgot , Buddy is a ‘ genuine fan ’ ( ha , ha ) who probably just stands at the back , looking at everybody else wondering whom he can slag . |
| 13 | Her hair had been plaited and coiled at the back of her head , but there was no mistaking her for Han . |
| 14 | As Jelka watched , the men subdued her , forcing her into a padded jacket , the over-long arms of which they fastened at the back . |
| 15 | In the 1770s a wing was added at the back , and once again the house rose up the social scale . |
| 16 | When Mrs Hollidaye had finished her praying and they were leaving the church , she stopped at the back and showed Dot a book with writing in it . |
| 17 | A tall woman of about forty , who had sat at the back , slipped away without speaking to anyone . |
| 18 | Well I mean the motion actually has been moved , I do take the point , I mean it 's a fair point , but erm not sure where John 's sat sat at the back , yes |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Theda stepped back and caught at the back of her hair just as it came tumbling down over her shoulders . |
| 21 | His skin had an olive hue , signifying foreign blood , and his indecently long hair was very black , worn in a multitude of thin braids and confined at the back of his neck . |
| 22 | Yeah , well er , yeah well go down there I mean he still lives at the back of the shops still just ask him |
| 23 | It is this concept that lies at the back of R. P. A. Edwards ' attack on dial-access retrieval systems : |
| 24 | Style , the more general concept , lies at the back of more large scale studies of style , when for example we try to give a stylistic characterization of a whole text . |
| 25 | I ate the biscuits in one go and walked on to the boat , climbing up the decks to stand at the back . |
| 26 | She was forced to stand at the back , squashed between a thin jeans-clad youth with bony shoulders and sharp elbows and a red-faced man with a paunch . |
| 27 | There were so many mourners at the funeral that some had to stand at the back and listen to the service relayed by loudspeakers . |
| 28 | They dived into the sand did n't they , so he would survive at the back of the |
| 29 | Having failed dismally with a bicycle pump and an unidentified device that I found at the back of my Dad 's garden shed , I stumbled across what seemed like a promising routine and set aside the whole of Boxing Day to test it out . |
| 30 | ‘ My car is parked at the back . |