Example sentences of "be at the back " in BNC.
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| 1 | D' you want me to read these out if you 're at the back ? |
| 2 | The mosquitoes do n't seem to like the rain either , they all seem to be at the back of the trench . |
| 3 | Therefore I 'm afraid were going to have to pass Sue 's book around , we 'll leave the lights on and erm she 's changed the scripture of her talks so that she will be describing the picture why 'll its been passed round and could you please sort of pass it fairly quickly , I 'll be at the back and then I 'll come down into the front again , is there anyone who 's a poet ? |
| 4 | Your readers are not at once asking that onwards-dragging question which should be at the back of their minds all the time . |
| 5 | I shall be at the back of the newsagents after midnight on Sunday . |
| 6 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 7 | Every time I lifted it to aim it at a target living or not — this moment would be at the back of my mind . |
| 8 | Erm yeah I expect the answers will be at the back . |
| 9 | Fortunately it was nearly empty , all mothers being at the back , and staff too , except those who lived out anyway . |
| 10 | It was also during this period that we had the strangest set of photographs taken of us , by Peter Christopherson who worked for a design company , Hipgnosis — whose offices were at the back of our Denmark Street HQ — and who later joined Throbbing Gristle , a band best known for tabloid spreads on their occult practices . |
| 11 | The gardens were at the back . |
| 12 | Others were at the back of his house . |
| 13 | The stables were at the back of a courtyard and there was a crowd outside the door . |
| 14 | She said the drawer was unlocked and the scissors were at the back . |
| 15 | Girls were at the back , looking on , but not joining in . |
| 16 | It was quite a long walk to the stables , which were at the back of the house . |
| 17 | Similar preoccupations were at the back of the mind of Hilary Frome himself , as , with the front of his mind , he made conversation with the overdressed parents of one of the boarders . |
| 18 | Now , as I have said , Mandeville led us , the Santerres behind with their small retinue whilst we were at the back just before the cart . |
| 19 | All these uneasy feelings that were at the back of her mind from time to time . |
| 20 | And you had get the two people who were at the back , you have to get them out before you landed because when you when you brought the flaps up if they were still in this little bay you would squash them to death and one day his dials showed that he had , in fact , squashed them to death ! |
| 21 | Yeah last time we were at the back though |
| 22 | The scripts of the dialogues are at the back of the Student 's Book . |
| 23 | There are separate Post Office Users ' Councils for Northern Ireland , Scotland and Wales ; the addresses are at the back of this booklet . |
| 24 | There are separate Post Office Users ' Councils for Northern Ireland , Scotland and Wales ; the addresses are at the back of this booklet . |
| 25 | Opposite is an equally large Menzies , where the books , mostly paperbacks , are at the back of the ground floor , with a small children 's section in a basement . |
| 26 | Lets hope that the rest of the teams in the League realise how crap the Scum are at the back . |
| 27 | However does n't this expose how vunerable we still are at the back — Norwich virtually snatching the match with the only opportunities they had and Leeds failing once again up front . |
| 28 | Okay , so let me start handing these out , and what I 'd like you to do is to extract the er , alpha dividers that are at the back , and then separate those out into two piles , A to L and M to Z , please . |
| 29 | is concerned erm we ask er companies questions about the trend in employment over the past four months and the expected trend and we then calculate from that and the numbers are at the back of the book , pages seven page seventy one basically and on the graphs which follow . |
| 30 | The possibility had been at the back of Cadfael 's mind for some time . |