Example sentences of "and at [art] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ the smoke of the innumerable tall chimneys lies over all like a poultice … houses and shops go on for ever , and at the back of them , blotting out all the rest of the world , rise great precipitous mills like frowning cliffs , at whose base are the small houses where the folks live like coneys at a mountain foot . |
| 2 | To the rear of that was a large field , bounded on the left by the railway line , and at the back by the ever-present forest . |
| 3 | They can also be divided crossways into three regions , a well-defined head ( cephalon ) at the front , usually equipped with a pair of eyes , a thorax with a variable number of articulated segments , and at the back end a tail ( or pygidium ) formed by the fusion of several segments . |
| 4 | He wept for joy to hear this good news , when all his social connections ( and at the back of it all , his own father ) never gave him this recognition . |
| 5 | Behind these come what I have called the gybing straps , since these are used during the carve gybe , and at the back of the board are the two high wind straps , which can only be used in Force 4 or above . |
| 6 | It was also a prison , and at the back of the palace is the beautiful Bridge of Sighs connecting it with the dark , damp cells . |
| 7 | And at the back of his mind , knowing that Jean-Paul had never married and seemed unlikely to , knowing that he himself had met no woman he wished to make his wife , he thought : Grégoire could be my heir . |
| 8 | ‘ Put four on each bench and if there are any over , spread them across the rows of chairs at the front and at the back . |
| 9 | The jacket of the suit curved in at the waist and at the back were two buttons above a pair of tails . |
| 10 | I told you yesterday , one plait and at the back , and tight . |
| 11 | He hoped that at the very least she would approve of the idea , and at the back of his mind there was a fantasy in which she offered to come with him . |
| 12 | Anyway , at half time , Geoff 's standing right at the back of the London Road — and at the back there you can see down to the tea place underneath because some bugger 's smashed out some of the asbestos bit along the back . |
| 13 | And at the back of the house were the wooden sheds that were our palaces , our temples , our ranches , our mansions . |
| 14 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 15 | The masks , however , were specially constructed — made from heavy-duty , vulcanised rubber and fitted by stretching them over the actors ' heads so that they clamped underneath the nose and at the back of the crown . |
| 16 | And at the corner there was a , and at the back of that , this , there was a little pub . |
| 17 | Well me first job was d er down lace market , and I worked in Street , Hill , and at the back there was all lodging houses , do you see ? |
| 18 | Inside there was a cart , its body mounted high upon the axle so that it would clear the stagings and pass along the narrow tunnels , and at the back of the enclosure there was a stall in which an aged p'tar browsed at a manger . |
| 19 | Well , we thought he 'd gone out , but apparently he must have got to the door just as the bomb landed , and the blast blew the door backwards , er the door inwards , knocked me dad backwards and at the back of him we had a cellar , but it went through this , the cellar door and although it turned round before it went down the cellar , he finished up down there because we did n't know this til after a while that me brother wou did n't offer to go out , so I went out think , to find where me dad was you see . |
| 20 | Maybe I mentioned about the fillings coming out on this side of my mouth and at the back , so I ca They took it out in my living room and hypnotized me to forget , hypnotized walking about in my sleep with it , to sleep , got me in the chair and done it , got out of the house , programmed me to go to that dentist in , which I did do instead of going to Mr at . |
| 21 | He could sense her there behind him and felt the hairs rise along his spine and at the back of his neck . |
| 22 | Beech , there was n't much beech in , it was mostly round the mansion and at the back of the grounds . |
| 23 | And at the back |
| 24 | And at the back , cos it 's very stiff , you need to turn it right over . |
| 25 | And er bit misty , but that 's looking out from the signal box , you can just , possibly just about make out there , and at the back erm the er er with the the erm station master 's house etcetera . |
| 26 | And he came running out behind us and at the back this massive puzzle and he slipped over in the mud sli slide straight forward and into the . |