Example sentences of "up the back [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Left by the kitchen door at the rear of the house , walked cautiously up the back alley and quickly worked my way through a maze of quiet back streets thinking about it . |
| 2 | Mr Thomas Russell was asked to board up the back part of he building to keep out the rain . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If you find that it is difficult to knit after the stitches are crossed , push up the back bed needle marked X on the row before the transfer the release the loop from this needle and put the needle into non-working position . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He had been moved to lighter work three years earlier : ‘ my Master took me from the farm work to do the House Boys work — cleaning the Boots seeing to the wood and coals and sweeping up the back yard and the paths and looking after the poultry . ’ |
| 7 | I had you come up the back way " |
| 8 | Jed spent most of the afternoon in the parking-lot , wiring up the back seat . |