Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] the back " in BNC.
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| 1 | With singer Bradley acting out his Mozzer fantasies by lurching around on top of the monitors — only lacking a bunch of daffs stuffed down the back of his pants — their arrogance level has been hoisted a welcome couple of notches . |
| 2 | After he 'd found the half-burned counterfoil slips from the railway tickets stuffed down the back of the apartment 's disused fireplace , his next move had been to return to his Militia post and report that an anonymous source had given him some information on the whereabouts of Alina Petrovna , escapee from the prison hospital and probable murderer of the psychiatrist Belov . |
| 3 | Then he just wandered away , hands plunged down the back of his underpants with misery . |
| 4 | His nimble hands unbuttoned her coat , quested down the back of her skirt and stroked the cleavage where her buttocks divided . |
| 5 | He whipped up the back of her skirt , and kneaded the cheeks of her knickered bum with one enormous hand . |
| 6 | They crept up the back staircase to the third floor , testing each tread for creaks before stepping on it , nightclothes bunched in one hand lest they trip . |
| 7 | Cashmere sports jackets hung on the back of their chairs , insurance against an encounter with air-conditioning . |
| 8 | Mr Gillis was nick-named the Butcher because in summer he wore a white trilby hat which he hung on the back of the door of his tiny glass-walled office in the corridor just outside the gymnasium . |
| 9 | He fumbled about on the table , felt in the pockets of the odorous hawk-training jacket which hung on the back of the door , told his sister to try the cupboard . |
| 10 | Her coat hung on the back of the door , her handbag stood open on the side . |
| 11 | In the stunned silence George Felse got up , without speaking , and crossed the room to where Gus 's jacket hung on the back of a chair , turned towards the replenished fire , and steamed gently as it dried . |
| 12 | And carted down the back , |
| 13 | He shaved up the back , has n't he ? |
| 14 | I ran off down the hill to our street and went down the back alley-way to Julie 's , so my mum would n't see me . |
| 15 | I tell ya , so I think we got out , we got our hair done and she wanted to go down to the mission so the hairdresser phoned a different taxi , we have this one up here , he took her down from there to the mission , cos he went down the back ways , you know , |
| 16 | I let Brownie out went up the back and there was Brownie in the Malone River then he saw me so no lead with me |
| 17 | and she put on the back of this one she was thankful that at least I 'd managed this time to get the mark in the area where it should have been in the first |
| 18 | As in the Million , Teleprompter soon had the field at full pelt , and he tore down the back stretch and round the final bend . |
| 19 | She swam and sunbathed , went sightseeing , worked on her designs , talked brightly on the phone with Lucy , or Dad or Charles whenever they rang her , forcing herself not to ask whether Guy had moved in on the firm yet , and then wincing when Lucy said that he 'd made his mark in a dramatic emergency board meeting , put up the backs of most of the board of directors when he announced sweeping measures to increase profitability , cut overheads … |
| 20 | Dan Wagoner 's own new work , first staged in Plymouth in October , has a jokey title , Turtles All The Way Down , and has something to do with a Bertrand Russell lecture when it was suggested that the Earth is not round but carried on the back of a giant tortoise which stands on turtles all the way down . |
| 21 | When all was silent , except for the distant buzz of conversation from the tea , she crept out and almost ran down the back passage , as fast as her high-heeled shoes would permit . |
| 22 | Terry sat looking anxious while Ellie carefully unpicked , altered , moved all the tiny buttons that ran down the back , rearranged the small bustle , put little tucks into the bustline to make it fit more snugly . |
| 23 | With a squeak of pain and fear , and a look of real hate , it ran up the back of the chair and made a great jump onto the rope of the alarm bell . |
| 24 | After breakfast of tea without milk and rolls with cheese and marmalade , I wrote myself reminders of what to discuss today at the ‘ Keep Trying ’ bakery , collected useful handouts and a picnic lunch , fetched the bike from its tiny sleeping house , pumped up the back tyre and I was off . |