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

No	Sentence
1	Drop the front bed and push the ‘ knots ’ between the beds up towards the back bed with a transfer tool so that the true stitches on the front bed can be seen clearly .
2	Then he looked up towards the back , and Shelley knew , with a sudden shock , that he must be looking for her , but she was too nervous to stand up .
3	He hunched up against the back of the car .
4	His head was jammed up against the back of the sofa , his cheek on the carpet and Doyle 's hand clamped over his mouth .
5	Beneath the table , hard up against the back of the monument , is Henry Cavendish 's skeleton , executed with some precision in marble , whilst in front is a truly magnificent image of the First Earl in the latest fashion for the grave .
6	Sure enough , a second ray-gun and clock , identical to the first , were set up against the back wall .
7	Labour 's apparent shift towards PR to woo the Liberals , Ashdown 's insistence that he would allow a government to function only if it gave way to PR , all seemed to point to a deal being hatched up behind the backs of the voters to secure power for the opposition parties .
8	blocks up this tube , comes right up into the back of your eardrum , blocks
9	He arrived at the crowded town square near Bogota and was born shoulder high to climb up onto the back of a truck to make his campaign speech .
10	A couple of youngsters yesterday , seven year old , eight year olds at the very most , they have one of these gas lighters , up round the back of the .
11	Kylie 's tucked up in the back seat , her mum 's alongside , and she 's ready to complete the last day 's shooting on the £10 million film The Delinquents .
12	Anne swallowed the gulp of hot bile that came up in the back of her mouth .
13	Sandy Scratchley 's patrol was sent out to raid petrol dumps in the El Daba area and found itself caught up in the back yard of the retreating Germans .
14	In April I make the journey to London from my home in Suffolk , with my paintings carefully wrapped up in the back of my car .
15	‘ But I have a good right peg and it ended up in the back of the net . ’
16	The Labrador bounded up in the back seat , excited by familiar smells .
17	One acoustic theory is immediately exploded : that a whisper on stage could be heard up in the back row ( Greek guides conveniently fail to take the wooden superstructure into account ) .
18	This is rare in cars of this type , which tend to be fun for the driver , but a bore for anybody unlucky enough to end up in the back .
19	Belt up in the back
20	Remember , belt up in the back
21	Did you do it in the cabin or was there a bed made up in the back ?
22	When I regained control , telling myself , ‘ It 's OK , you 're not taped , you 're not in the truck , ’ I was always left with a residue of remembered fear , which built up in the back of my mind .
23	But here we are instead , snuggled up in the back seat of a taxi : me on the left , Rachel on the right , and Darius bright-eyed and eager in between .
24	Daniel has his hand up in the back row .
25	He was so angry he strung them up in the back of his open lorry , head downwards , like side of beef bound for some unhygienic market .
26	The final image of him after that goal — flustered , exhausted , snarled up in the back of his own goalkeeper 's net with his studs caught in the meshing — could be the definitive fate of most of Hateley 's minders .
27	Jim had not really woken up for his breakfast and was happy to curl up in the back again .
28	It 's all wired up in the back as well .
29	If you 're going to effing bingo and Dave 's going to effing bingo , we can all go out up in my car , the girls can and have to squeeze up in the back of the car .
30	But , oh he 's quite happy , he 'll curl up in the back of a car , but when I come home and he goes so berserk if I 've left him at home , I know that he 's been watching and listening and waiting for me all that time .