Example sentences of "[noun pl] back at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shoulders back at the angle recommended by L'Echo de la mode , chin up , stomach sucked in . |
| 2 | Only last month , BR agreed to put barriers back at the crossing at Ruswarp . |
| 3 | On one occasion , ‘ action likely to cause a breach of the peace ’ was invoked by Kent police successfully to turn miners back at the Dartford tunnel , over 100 miles from their intended destination . |
| 4 | This enabled him to look forward with confidence to continued improvements which would put the British plants back at the top of the performance league , where they used to be , and where they belonged . |
| 5 | He did a further two years ' apprenticeship at Covent Garden , and then six years back at the Arts Council in finance department . |
| 6 | What was worst for Jackie , in a way , was the follow-up : the melancholy task faced by his wife Helen as she and Courage 's wife Sally had to pack up Piers 's things back at the Bouwes Palace . |
| 7 | Like all scientific findings , mine are actually nothing but readings on meters , printouts on papers , numbers derived from machines ( nothing but pointer-readings , the positivist philosopher and physicist Ernst Mach called such observations back at the beginning of this century ) , which I manipulate to extract meaning and which I then endeavour to extrapolate back to stand for , to represent , deductions about the behaviour of molecules , cells and organisms in the real world . |
| 8 | You had no difficulties back at the bar ? ’ |
| 9 | By analysing element of the calls back at the laboratory , the biologists were able to show that the prairie dogs distinguished between them reasonably well , effectively creating a distinctive call for each person . |
| 10 | Hard to talk though ; the machines are as noisy as the trains back at the flats and there 's pop music screaming out all day long from the radio wedged on top of the mantelpiece . |
| 11 | Or just Knickerbocker Glories back at the complex ? ’ |
| 12 | Honour having been saved , I for one was certainly not going to argue but , just for good measure , I hurled a few more insults back at the towering colossus who was marching towards us . |
| 13 | Nobody knew how to run the longer events , the advice we were given being the same as that I had pontificated for 80 metres back at the White City : start slowly and build up ! |
| 14 | They fought , and ran , and stood to fight again , tiring , separated , driven now like hunted hares , until Isambard called his men back at the brook and let them rest at last . |
| 15 | Life member Laurie Lee was invariably on the boundary to give his vocal backing during a match , and then add to the convivial post-mortems back at the Butcher 's or his own local at Slad , the Woolpack . |
| 16 | Sure enough , against all the odds , and with our cameras back at the Rante , we were about to watch the " calling of the eels " , a rite barely referred to in the literature on the Toraja , and which even Werner had never seen . |
| 17 | She hesitated for a moment , before adding with a worried frown , ‘ I wish I was n't feeling so nervous about having to cope with the twins back at the apartment in New York . ’ |