Example sentences of "stand [adv] [prep] the back " in BNC.

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1 Even now if I look at a video the hair still stands up on the back of the neck , and you get that tingle on the spine .
2 The stories of what it was like there in the hours that followed , and of the lingering deaths of 31 of the most exposed people , make the hair stand up on the back of your neck .
3 People who 've seen it say it makes the hair stand up on the back of their necks . ’
4 It 's hard to resist the malevolent allure of the Third Reich , and when I telephoned Sibylle one evening a week or so later , the sound of her rich , Teutonic voice eloquently describing its owner 's activities in the Hitler Youth movement made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck .
5 Standing together in the back yard of the ‘ Windy Ridge ’ , all four of them momentarily experienced that eerie silence that always prevailed on the banks of the River Severn at high water during the hours of darkness .
6 There were people standing all along the back , and down the sides .
7 Oh oh my hair 's standing up at the back of my neck .
8 Vincent stood up at the back of the room and walked modestly along the wall to the platform .
9 up there and all of a sudden he saw it and he came in the room , Tony and he went he looked up at it and the stood up at the back of his neck and he was going grurgh ever so quietly under his breath grurgh .
10 Cushions , the large hard Arabian cushions , stood neatly along the back wall .
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