Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the back " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Saturday promises to be a great day for the public and will give children a chance to see the cars which were made famous for them through the Back to the Future film . ’ |
| 2 | Characters , drawings , etc , that can be transferred to the artwork by rubbing them off the back of the transfer sheet . |
| 3 | ‘ What yer think about 'er round the back ? |
| 4 | He said I on the back at least . |
| 5 | It is true that he knew the Prime Ministers of the later 1940s and early 1950s , Attlee and Churchill , personally , and he was not averse to breaking protocol by raising policy matters with them behind the back of their Minister of Fuel and Power on a few occasions . |
| 6 | ( a ) Meetings and their conduct Whatever may have been agreed as to the taking of decisions by unanimous or majority vote , as much a matter of good management as of good faith is the need to ensure that all relevant information is given to all the partners before a vote is taken : the requisite majority of partners should not purport to take decisions and act on them behind the backs of the minority unless such has been expressly authorised or the need for immediate action precludes the convening of a partners ' meeting ; and even then there should be no delay before all partners are acquainted with the circumstances and invited to ratify any decision taken in their name . |
| 7 | Another minute and I 'll be inviting you into the back of the car . ’ |
| 8 | I have no — ‘ You have a black coat and a long tongue , Angus — they can hear you from the back of the crowd . ’ |
| 9 | These types of individuals are the ones who are said to stab you in the back in order to achieve their ends ; and ( b ) the conservers — motivated by the desire to retain the status quo . |
| 10 | ‘ I have not stabbed you in the back , dammit ! |
| 11 | That whole family is a living contradiction , consuming anything and anyone that comes within its reach , one of them smiling in your face while another stabs you in the back . |
| 12 | He said When they are stabbing you in the back and behaving totally idiotically . |
| 13 | Gave him a David said to her there 's Ann , let Ann and you in the back and Wendy three and Aunt Betty in the front . |
| 14 | Like you say you 've got to watch them cos they 'll stab you in the back wo n't they ? |
| 15 | Yeah , but they were all like that , they 'd all stab you in the back . |
| 16 | What , it bash you in the back of the neck ? |
| 17 | Erm tells you a lot it would n't erm if somebody hit you in the back you 'd still move if you had the handbrake on . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | In those days it was considered bad form even to slap you on the back . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | pat you on the back |
| 22 | It seems Sir Adrian spotted him and shouted out : ‘ Oy — you at the back there ! |
| 23 | … you at the back , madam ? … can I take it , then , that I 'm heard in all parts of the house ? " |
| 24 | At a hundred pounds , any more at a hundred , and ten , one twenty one thirty , one forty fifty , one sixty seventy , one eighty one ninety , two hundred two hundred pounds , against you at the back , two hundred , two twenty front row now at two hundred and twenty pounds , two forty , two sixty two eighty three hundred and twenty three twenty on the right seated , any more at three twenty ? |
| 25 | Two eighty three hundred and twenty three twenty , all done then at three twenty , any more at three hundred and twen three fifty new bidder against you at the back now , bid 's on my left at three fifty and I 'll sell , the bid 's here at three hundred and fifty pounds . |
| 26 | At eighty pounds , any more at eighty pounds eighty five , thank you , at ninety pounds ninety five , a hundred at one hundred against you at the back , at one hundred , you all done at one hundred pounds . |
| 27 | Two sixty , two eighty two hundred and eighty pounds against you at the back and selling for two hundred and eighty pounds two eighty , one one nine . |
| 28 | At eighty , eighty five , ninety ninety five , a hundred pounds and ten going to you at the back , going on , sir ? |
| 29 | Five fifty against you at the back at five hundred and fifty pounds , you all done at five fifty . |
| 30 | I 'm sorry , people ca n't hear you at the back . |