Example sentences of "[noun sg] at the 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A picture dictionary at the back of the book explaining the words used in the passages . |
| 11 | A useful picture dictionary at the back of each book helps pupils with new words . |
| 12 | A full-colour picture dictionary at the back of each book provides another delightful resource . |
| 13 | Sample page from the picture dictionary at the back of Toy Box Pupil 's Book |
| 14 | When he opened the door downstairs , he heard the roar of a motorboat leaving from the boathouse at the back . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A gent bid at the back at eighteen pound ? |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Voices rose from the waste-ground at the back of the house — they were discussing how to chain up the dog . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He was given an immediate Critics ' Award and a seat at the back . |
| 23 | I quickly slid into a seat at the back , and sat back to observe proceedings . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He parked the car at the back of the house . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Gaiters are normally fastened by a zip at the back , but there are some with a front zip . |
| 29 | There is a small repository at the back of the church . |
| 30 | No , it 's got a great big steel girder at the back ! |