Example sentences of "[verb] at the back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This fresco is mirrored by another that can be seen from Via Falcone at the back of the church . |
| 2 | Valderrama is still their main inspiration and , as they showed in the play-off against Israel , their team is well organised at the back with the ability to strike quickly on the break . |
| 3 | Then some grass , and a dark green van , and doors opening at the back of it , and grey flat people moving in a white square . |
| 4 | A tiny , half-formed thought rose at the back of Marion 's mind . |
| 5 | Brief biographical details about each of the authors appear at the back of the book , as do comprehensive Teacher 's Notes . |
| 6 | The retina itself is located at the back of the eye , and here the visual image forms , being transmitted to the brain via the optic nerve . |
| 7 | A more fundamental design fault is the positioning of our noses above our mouths , which requires our food and air passages to meet at the back of the throat , an arrangement which exists because the nostril in fish is not a breathing passage , but an opening to a chemical sense organ . |
| 8 | The dancers engage in playful sport , dressed in simple turtle-coloured costumes , while Wagoner stands at the back as some kind of pondering philosopher figure . |
| 9 | Her hair had been plaited and coiled at the back of her head , but there was no mistaking her for Han . |
| 10 | Allan Ramsay 's engaging portrait of Sir Edward and Lady Turner ( lot 21 , unpublished est. £250,000–350,000 ) , fresh from exhibition at the National Portrait Galleries of Edinburgh and London and sent to auction by the sitters ' descendants , fetched the morning 's top price , as expected , when it sold for £500,000 , an auction record for his work , to an agent bidding at the back of the room on behalf of a private collector against keen competition from David Posnett of Leger , who was the purchaser of a conversation piece by Nathaniel Hone ( lot 26 , est. £40,000–60,000 ) for £36,000 . |
| 11 | Theda stepped back and caught at the back of her hair just as it came tumbling down over her shoulders . |
| 12 | His skin had an olive hue , signifying foreign blood , and his indecently long hair was very black , worn in a multitude of thin braids and confined at the back of his neck . |
| 13 | Yeah , well er , yeah well go down there I mean he still lives at the back of the shops still just ask him |
| 14 | It is this concept that lies at the back of R. P. A. Edwards ' attack on dial-access retrieval systems : |
| 15 | Style , the more general concept , lies at the back of more large scale studies of style , when for example we try to give a stylistic characterization of a whole text . |
| 16 | They dived into the sand did n't they , so he would survive at the back of the |
| 17 | Having failed dismally with a bicycle pump and an unidentified device that I found at the back of my Dad 's garden shed , I stumbled across what seemed like a promising routine and set aside the whole of Boxing Day to test it out . |
| 18 | Just for a moment she ignored the by now loud warning sirens wailing at the back of her mind . |
| 19 | She was about to do the same with the contents of another file when something made her pause , hair prickling at the back of her head . |
| 20 | Her shoulder-length blonde hair , tinted with auburn highlights , was pulled back tightly from her face and secured at the back of her head with a white ribbon . |
| 21 | As the conference afternoon wore on , two Gardai were noticed at the back of the hall standing , ears bent listening to the speeches . |
| 22 | Bernice was pushed between the canvas flaps at the back of the wagon . |
| 23 | The electrons are collected at the back of this electrode . |
| 24 | I remember looking at the back of Don 's anorak and seeing Made in England and thinking , I wish I was back there . ’ |
| 25 | I remember a man coming up to me at Sandhurst and looking at the back of my hair and saying , ‘ What regiment are you going into ? ’ and I said ‘ The Grenadiers , ’ and he said ‘ You appear to be growing your own bear skin . ’ |
| 26 | There is no foolproof way of determining if a Turkish knot has been used , but a fair indication can be obtained by looking at the back of the rug . |
| 27 | ‘ I never ate looking at the back of somebody 's head before , ’ Goldie muses . |
| 28 | This is the ice-cream tent and this is the Ladies and changing rooms for some of the performers and instead of looking at the back of the bar during the interval , the audience can look out over the rolling Oxfordshire countryside . |
| 29 | This and other theatres elsewhere were at their peak when the gentry came in for the Quarter Sessions ; for wives and marriageable daughters , there were the balls and concerts of the Assembly Rooms specially built at the back of the George Hotel . |
| 30 | For the prizegiving a platform had been built at the back of the stands where the Princess Royal , assisted by Jackie Stewart , presented the prizes to the teams and individuals . |