Example sentences of "his back " in BNC.
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| 1 | His hands were manacled behind his back except when he ate or slept . |
| 2 | Genius is the bust of Beethoven and Keats dying and Shelley dying and the size of War and Peace and poor old Sartre banging away at his trilogy and Hemingway paring it down to its essence and Monet unable to distinguish colours any more and Picasso staring out at the camera with his chest bare and his eyes blazing and Cézanne snarling like a dog and then walking out of Aix with his canvas and paints on his back to paint that mountain and Byron dying and Pushkin dying and all the rest of it . |
| 3 | Complained of pains in his back . |
| 4 | He just turned his back and walked away , leaving me in the hall . |
| 5 | Blood from the blade blackening his back , |
| 6 | In his back there 's a hole ! |
| 7 | ‘ And was the Duke on his feet or his back ? ’ |
| 8 | James looked at his back for a full minute , then asked , ‘ Are you wishing it was like that here — fires on the hill ? ’ |
| 9 | Cameron leaned towards the minister , who straightened his back still more but said nothing . |
| 10 | Anderson seemed to be the only person at home ; he sold them jugs of ale , small beer for the children ; James 's credit was good for a stone jar of whisky and one of the Duke 's men was detailed to carry it on his back in a wicker frame . |
| 11 | ‘ father brought me up here on his back in the spring one year , and I sat in the moor while he and old Donald were digging peats . |
| 12 | When Mary came out , she found him standing still with his back to the sun , looking down the river towards the shady woodlands round Grandtully . |
| 13 | Sucking his torn finger-end , he went into the cell next his own and sat on the floor , his back against the wall , looking at the scraps of scratched lettering on the distemper opposite him . |
| 14 | ‘ Mr Cameron ’ — a bigwig with painfully slow and clear articulation , his back to the window , his features invisible — ‘ now that the charges have been preferred , you would be well advised to apply for bail . ’ |
| 15 | He lay on his back for a few moments as he always did , then turned onto his right side , arranging himself as if for sleep . |
| 16 | His back was towards her . |
| 17 | She could tell this by looking at his back as he stood at the bar ordering more drinks . |
| 18 | All he owned were the clothes on his back and a few cassettes which I 'd partly paid for anyway . |
| 19 | He made one as if he should try and comfort her , but turned away , walked upstage and on the balcony with his back to the audience , raised his arms widely only to drop them helplessly . |
| 20 | Here is the clown whose clumsy , naïve behaviour is exemplified by his ‘ tottering sur les pointes ’ , scratching his back on a bush and performing other antics when he dances with Titania . |
| 21 | When he pulls himself up or corrects his placing or step he beams on the audience as , for example , when he finishes with his back after a pirouette and hastily turns to face them . |
| 22 | The grade is E5/b 6a : a fine effort from Gary not 50 yards from where he broke his back last year ! |
| 23 | The insertion of the needle is less painful than the hypodermic counterpart , but may cause an animal to arch his back or tighten his muscles . |
| 24 | Mr Parkinson can turn his back on all this but if he decides to confront it , road pricing is one of the few tools at his disposal . |
| 25 | Biggs rolled over on to his back and remained motionless for more than two minutes after referee Larry O'Connell had completed the count . |
| 26 | Nicky Kiss , the Wigan hooker , is out of tonight 's Lancashire Cup semi-final at Oldham with a trapped nerve in his back . |
| 27 | It appears Mr Shamir , as with his original peace initiative , is keen to get the Americans off his back by showing willing . |
| 28 | Looking more like a bewildered Old English sheepdog than a thwarted child-molester , he throws himself around the place , lying on his back and waggling his feet in the air , as if by an excess of physical effort he could make up for the thinness of the script . |
| 29 | To win , you must throw your opponent , ideally on his back ; or dispose of him on the ground with an armlock , strangle or 30 second hold . |
| 30 | He shrugs off his legacy of injuries — a fractured bone in his back , ripped Achilles tendons , the deep bruise on his face which he picked up on the way to winning a bronze medal in Poland . |