Example sentences of "[adv] in the back " in BNC.

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1 It consisted of a grey , with black tack ( ‘ Very vulgar , ’ said Ian to see how Julia would react ; she made no answer ) and a large handsome chestnut mare with good shoulders but long in the back and with that slightly dotty look in her eye usual in chestnut mares .
2 Especially in the back , ’ said Richard , ‘ which is important when you still have to match the standards of your clients ' company cars . ’
3 A chilly person , everywhere , especially in the back of the neck .
4 But the good mews petered out rapidly especially in the back row where O'Hara was the only one to come through a game against Old Wesley in Dublin .
5 It was not a happy journey to the car and I sat silently and unhappily in the back as we drove away , despite my friends ' jolly attempts to think up song titles with the word ‘ flask ’ in them .
6 The germs that cause bacterial meningitis are very common and live naturally in the back of the nose and throat .
7 These bacteria are very common and live naturally in the back of the nose and throat of up to 10 per cent of the population .
8 Your back foot should be far enough in the back strap to straddle the centreline of the board .
9 . And of course , being so in the back seat they sort of when they , they she
10 When it does , the result is acute or nagging pain , not only in the back , but often in the neck , shoulders , arms and legs .
11 Only in the back does a problem occur .
12 It 's only in the back of the book .
13 With my mother we settled down in the back row .
14 It seems that when they were made to lie down in the back of the truck and their hands were tied behind them , Katrine remembers there being rags underneath her .
15 He 'd probably never been to Brixton before — I could tell that from the way he was sinking down in the back of Armstrong the farther along Effra Road we got .
16 The two girls , travelling together in the back of a car as it passed close by the explosion in St Mary Axe on Friday night , are being treated for facial and eye injuries in neighbouring beds at Guy 's Hospital .
17 The bodies of Neesha Patel , nine , and her brother , Pritesh , seven , were found together in the back bedroom and their sister Neha , eight months , in a cot in her parents ' room .
18 Standing together in the back yard of the ‘ Windy Ridge ’ , all four of them momentarily experienced that eerie silence that always prevailed on the banks of the River Severn at high water during the hours of darkness .
19 For all the world as if she and Miss Beard were ladies of quality , he ceremoniously handed them into the carriage , the two of them to sit together in the back , while Herbert Fraser sat beside Sean in the front .
20 The kidnap victims were found handcuffed together in the back of the van .
21 Apparently he thought that she and Mitch would get into no end of mischief if they were allowed to sit together in the back .
22 Half an hour out of the Bahamas , John and Paul are talking quietly together in the back seat of the plane .
23 Midge and Angela , close together in the back , were carrying on their own conversation .
24 Henderson , Joseph and Pene owe much to their Otago and Mains ' background , but Pene particularly offers much in the back row .
25 But what you carry away in the back of your eye is the image of two very still figures , in foetal folds , on the platform of that truck as everyone else dived for cover .
26 ‘ Tell you what , mother , ca n't we take Kevin away in the back of the cart with the childer ?
27 The original Milnes four wheeled cars were now getting very decrepit and it was found that the nine bogie cars would be quite sufficient to provide the normal service between West Croydon and Mitcham , so a number of Milnes cars were stored away in the back parts of the other two depôts .
28 Every pilot and flight engineer knows that the FDR is ticking away in the back of the aeroplane recording everything he does .
29 ‘ Time to wake up ’ I said to the threesome snoring away in the back of the support car .
30 According to Ken he worked in the old Government Commission , which was tucked away in the back somewhere , until the present Government wound it up and the Cabinet Office took over its functions .
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