Example sentences of "[pron] on the back " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said I on the back at least . |
| 2 | So you 'll excuse us if we take a second here to pat ourselves on the back ; it 's our birthday and we 'll do what we like . |
| 3 | Too easily we stand still and pat ourselves on the back ; before long we are losing ground . |
| 4 | Indicate erm tt what the percentage was , because we 've always been sitting round this table patting ourselves on the back , saying that er |
| 5 | and of course and we would have been patting ourselves on the back saying we could go in under |
| 6 | ‘ And my name 's Ashley Fleming , ’ Ashley said , fearful that Simon might start patting himself on the back yet again . |
| 7 | Minutes later Charlie was outside the tent , buttoning up his jacket before continually slapping himself on the back in an effort to keep warm . |
| 8 | good descriptive booklet and it tells you on the back , in actual fact I 've got some handouts here which you can pick up when we 've finished the talk , okay ? |
| 9 | In those days it was considered bad form even to slap you on the back . |
| 10 | At ninety five ninety fi one hundred pounds and ten one ten , one twenty thirty one thirty against you on the back row , you coming in now sir ? |
| 11 | pat you on the back |
| 12 | The Ego does charitable work in order to pat itself on the back , and feel self-righteous — not from a sense of love and concern . |
| 13 | You can put everything on the back . |
| 14 | She found an envelope in her bag and wrote something on the back , then handed it over . |
| 15 | He 'd then possibly forgotten these dreams or fantasies and then when the stimulus of feeling something on the back of his neck happened to him whilst asleep , suddenly the fantasy came back , all as a piece as it were , and it occurred to me that your dream about driving off viaducts might be caused by being asleep , having one of these falling experiences , then relating it to previous thoughts you 'd had , you know on the freeway or something , oh my God , how awful it would be if I , if I drove off that bend below , do you know what I mean ? |
| 16 | Bore a shallow recess with the winged bit and , using the central pilot hole as a guide , drill the workpiece to take a steel screw that matches the one on the back of the nameplate . |
| 17 | Between us we harness two teams and go out with one of us sitting in a sledge driven by Tove , one on the back of Odd-Knut 's Sno-Go snow scooter , and the other tentatively riding the second sledge . |
| 18 | There was one on the back of the settee in the living-room . |
| 19 | One white label stuck on the front and one on the back . |
| 20 | The watch on the right there they both get smashed but the one on the back will cost you the one on the right will cost you as much to replace its glass as the one on the left completely . |
| 21 | The big one on the back . |
| 22 | Wearily she took off her stockings and hung them on the back of the chair to get ready for bed . |
| 23 | If you just place them on the back seat of your car , or they are removed from an arrangement and not packed up in any special way , some of the petals will almost definitely become bruised , which will cause brown lines , patches and spots once the flowers have been pressed . |
| 24 | They were so close now he could feel the wind of them on the back of his neck . |
| 25 | That 's instead of er clipping them on , they used to b instead of clipping them on the back you used to rope at front and one at back see . |
| 26 | The Committee had simply patted them on the back like spoilt children and told them , ‘ Now just send your children back to school . ’ |
| 27 | We pat them on the back , as if they were dogs ; |
| 28 | ‘ You can eat these later , once we 've disarmed them , ’ he told her , wrapping them in more tissues and laying them on the back seat . |
| 29 | so I told him to keep them on the back of that door . |
| 30 | Can you put them on the back of that shoes ? |