Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the back of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also hanging on the back of the door was the hot water-bottle that his Mum filled for him when he had tonsilitis . |
| 2 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 3 | Peering through the kitchen window she could see the remains of three breakfasts and her daughter 's new green coat hanging on the back of the kitchen door . |
| 4 | It was an effort to reach up for my dressing-gown which was hanging on the back of the door and I felt bitter against Richard because he did n't see that I was ill and come to help me . |
| 5 | He found her new white Christmas-present nightdress hanging on the back of the dressing-room door , and heaved her into it , then opened the bed , and pushed her between the sheets . |
| 6 | From the top drawer of her chest-of-drawers she took a pad and went to fetch her biro from the handbag hanging on the back of the door . |
| 7 | Just to see his silk dressing-gown hanging on the back of the door or his watch lying on the edge of the basin , stirred an unfathomable excitement in her . |
| 8 | Wrapping herself in the pink kimono hanging on the back of the bedroom door , she went softly down the stairs to the kitchen . |
| 9 | The worst hazard of standing in that crowd was someone pissing down the back of your leg . ’ |
| 10 | With singer Bradley acting out his Mozzer fantasies by lurching around on top of the monitors — only lacking a bunch of daffs stuffed down the back of his pants — their arrogance level has been hoisted a welcome couple of notches . |
| 11 | After he 'd found the half-burned counterfoil slips from the railway tickets stuffed down the back of the apartment 's disused fireplace , his next move had been to return to his Militia post and report that an anonymous source had given him some information on the whereabouts of Alina Petrovna , escapee from the prison hospital and probable murderer of the psychiatrist Belov . |
| 12 | Then he just wandered away , hands plunged down the back of his underpants with misery . |
| 13 | His nimble hands unbuttoned her coat , quested down the back of her skirt and stroked the cleavage where her buttocks divided . |
| 14 | She added that to herself while , aloud , she elaborated , ‘ I was fishing for a coin that I 'd accidentally dropped down the back of the chair … and there was my passport and the rest of my stuff . ’ |
| 15 | Press it flat with the seam you have sewn down the back of the head of the puppet . |
| 16 | He waited , the hair crisping up the back of his head . |
| 17 | Half five in a morning , with the rain going down the back of your bleeding neck , the police set upon you by the owner and the manager , eh , that 'd liven 'em up . |
| 18 | I was getting ratty and the rain was going down the back of my neck . |
| 19 | When gannets are on the ground , you ca n't miss the yellowy orange band of colour on the top of their heads which reaches down the back of their necks , and the unusual blue-grey hue of the beaks and feet . |
| 20 | See there again we can come on here , and we can look down the back of . |
| 21 | Then the breakers were all astern and Terrie was coming round to starboard to motor up the back of the reef . |
| 22 | ‘ The one that goes up the back of Monument Hill . ’ |
| 23 | He whipped up the back of her skirt , and kneaded the cheeks of her knickered bum with one enormous hand . |
| 24 | Cashmere sports jackets hung on the back of their chairs , insurance against an encounter with air-conditioning . |
| 25 | Mr Gillis was nick-named the Butcher because in summer he wore a white trilby hat which he hung on the back of the door of his tiny glass-walled office in the corridor just outside the gymnasium . |
| 26 | He fumbled about on the table , felt in the pockets of the odorous hawk-training jacket which hung on the back of the door , told his sister to try the cupboard . |
| 27 | Her coat hung on the back of the door , her handbag stood open on the side . |
| 28 | In the stunned silence George Felse got up , without speaking , and crossed the room to where Gus 's jacket hung on the back of a chair , turned towards the replenished fire , and steamed gently as it dried . |
| 29 | so so you , you 've got a seal because otherwise all that happens is that er er you put the cement onto the , every time the , the water gets down the back of the cement , down the wall |
| 30 | The exterior surface of most ammonoids is covered with ribbing — dense on some species , sparse on others — the ribs often split into two or more smaller ribs as they pass over the back of the whorls . |