Example sentences of "[adv] at the back " in BNC.
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| 1 | You put it on again , zipping it up halfway at the back . |
| 2 | We struggled basically at the back . |
| 3 | Or else you sort of jotted them down at the back of your mind , you know , to think about them later , but you never remembered , or you did but it was too late , they 'd gone , your head was full of other things . ’ |
| 4 | They were two terrors — down at the back . ’ |
| 5 | It 's down at the back , not . |
| 6 | And as often happens , United were so committed to attack , that they left the drawbridge down at the back and Lemon scored another in the last minute to make it Hereford 1 ; Chesterfield 3 . |
| 7 | You want that wall down at the back , it 'll go back further . |
| 8 | Well all the Sri Lankan batsmen seem pretty good at adopting the tactic of sticking the pad down at the back follow somewhere after it . |
| 9 | Or you could buy dresses , one or two dresses that were all complete except for the seam down at the back and the seams under the arms . |
| 10 | See and it has n't got a balance at the back , you see , the leaves are not big enough at the back . |
| 11 | Now the front door is secure — do n't let them in at the back ! |
| 12 | ‘ ‘ Go out the front and in at the back ! ' ’ |
| 13 | However , with a little diligence and help of the single end of a transfer tool , they can sometimes by unravelled in the work and since the end is fine it can be darned in at the back . |
| 14 | Tackle loose stair treads in a similar way , mailing the front edge to the riser below , and piping glue in at the back . |
| 15 | The fifteenth hole is short but dangerous ; its plateau green is ringed by bunkers at the front and sides and the trees press in at the back in a claustrophobic way — a nightmarish hole if you are playing badly . |
| 16 | And then pumped the concrete in at the back . |
| 17 | Larne should have taken the lead two minutes later when a right wing cross from Fay sailed over Beck but McCourt , running in at the back post , somehow managed to steer his header wide . |
| 18 | When I did that one for Ian , we just tied it in at the back did n't we ? |
| 19 | Small signs of a Conservative Party ‘ turquoise tendency ’ had emerged from the Bow Group which criticised the UK for ‘ trailing lamely along at the back of the international pack ’ and proposed a new Clean Air Act to halve the output of SO&sub2 ; . |
| 20 | Roger in his comfortable jacket , his hair receding and long at the back , the foetal guitar in his arms , singing a song about buffalo . |
| 21 | I mean at the moment they 've got it short , but they have it long here and long at the back and then everywhere else short , short back and sides |
| 22 | He whistled mechanically at the back view of a girl waiting to cross the intersection , though of late girls seemed to have lacked their usual charm for him . |
| 23 | I thread the yarns through these before they go up through the yarn guides on the mast and this prevents them from tangling together at the back of the table . |
| 24 | On the rare occasions when vertical stripes are used in the design , the adjoining sections are either stitched together at the back , or the first and last weft threads from the adjoining segments of pattern are tied around the same warp strand — a technique used by the American Indians in weaving blankets . |
| 25 | His on-stage father would unsnap the child 's clothes , which were held together at the back by a clasp , pack them with toothbrush , pyjamas , and reading matter , and throw the patient luggage at an assistant stage manager dressed as a railway porter . |
| 26 | You can imagine these lads ca n't you all giggling together at the back |
| 27 | The healthy stayed away , or hovered sceptically at the back of the crowd , talking as they waited for the first miracle . |
| 28 | BBC English plans a revised edition of the BBC English Dictionary every year but first the paperback edition ( itself revised ) , appears this month with the encyclopedic entries listed separately at the back . |
| 29 | While agreeing broadly with the England manager 's summing-up of the present Brazilian team , the thought did occur that in another footballing era he could have been describing an Italian side — brilliant in breakaways but giving nothing away at the back . |
| 30 | Instead , Amstrad PCs and PCWs are tucked away at the back with the printers and answering machines . |