Example sentences of "[adv] at the back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or else you sort of jotted them down at the back of your mind , you know , to think about them later , but you never remembered , or you did but it was too late , they 'd gone , your head was full of other things . ’ |
| 2 | The fifteenth hole is short but dangerous ; its plateau green is ringed by bunkers at the front and sides and the trees press in at the back in a claustrophobic way — a nightmarish hole if you are playing badly . |
| 3 | Small signs of a Conservative Party ‘ turquoise tendency ’ had emerged from the Bow Group which criticised the UK for ‘ trailing lamely along at the back of the international pack ’ and proposed a new Clean Air Act to halve the output of SO&sub2 ; . |
| 4 | I thread the yarns through these before they go up through the yarn guides on the mast and this prevents them from tangling together at the back of the table . |
| 5 | His on-stage father would unsnap the child 's clothes , which were held together at the back by a clasp , pack them with toothbrush , pyjamas , and reading matter , and throw the patient luggage at an assistant stage manager dressed as a railway porter . |
| 6 | The healthy stayed away , or hovered sceptically at the back of the crowd , talking as they waited for the first miracle . |
| 7 | Instead , Amstrad PCs and PCWs are tucked away at the back with the printers and answering machines . |
| 8 | And somewhere tucked away at the back of one 's mind was the knowledge that every crystal in the vast whiteness , though too small for the human eye to see , was fashioned like a flower or a star . |
| 9 | But tucked away at the back of the stall were some English and American newspapers . |
| 10 | But much of what they buy ends up being returned or hidden away at the back of a drawer . |
| 11 | Ingrid Heseltine , an EC civil servant , found the vacancies tucked away at the back of Euro documents , printed in French . |
| 12 | Morrow ( 1980:Part 4 ) takes the subordination of text to purpose and prediction so far as to use the questions to construct the text ( through a series of student activities like speed-reading of parts of the text , reordering , and blank-filling ) while the text itself is hidden away at the back of the book for consumption afterwards . |
| 13 | It was too big a puzzle and she let it go although it gnawed away at the back of her mind . |
| 14 | She pulled his shirt away at the back of his neck and dropped the document down inside . |
| 15 | Amiss recalled a discreet chamber tucked away at the back of the building which appeared from its decor and its furniture to have been designed for the entertainment of a compliant lady . |
| 16 | She obviously uses it each week , so it 's all rotted all coming away at the back of the pan . |
| 17 | The stations all followed the standard plan with a freight and/or baggage room at one end , the waiting-room at the other , the agent 's office with its bay window in the middle , and accommodation for the agent and his family , usually consisting of a kitchen and living-room , downstairs at the back of the station with up to four bedrooms upstairs . |
| 18 | There was still an old-fashioned fishmongers where they wore caps and wellies , as if the river ran just at the back of the shop . |
| 19 | Just at the back of Quinta Magnolia is a small British school which provides a full-time British-style education for foreign and Portuguese children . |
| 20 | Just at the back of the cupboard ? |
| 21 | well , somebody found it down by the river just at the back of where they live so it must have been somebody round about |
| 22 | Bobo was muscling up and down morosely at the back of the cage . |
| 23 | It 's not at the back of the here is it ? |
| 24 | An object close to the camera , with a very short out-and-return light-path from flash to film , will be imaged while the sound-pulse is still at the back of the emulsion but by the time light from an object 15 metres away has reached the film , the sound-pulse will have reached its front face . |
| 25 | Her father came into the room , looking like an unreformed convict in his striped pyjamas , his grey hair upright at the back of his head , a smouldering cigarette held in one cupped hand and his mug of tea in the other . |
| 26 | But always at the back of my mind there was the memory of Jordi , his knife , his smile , his helpless shrug . |
| 27 | As a young policewoman interviewed as part of a recent study on Merseyside 's police said , ‘ It 's always at the back of your mind , you just ca n't get rid of it . |
| 28 | This factor is always at the back of the minds of today 's senior men of science ; in fact many of them returned to Germany from studies or refuges abroad to rebuild the system . |
| 29 | And their larger than life goalkeeper Joe Paladino , born in St Helens of Scilian parents , admitted : ‘ Altrincham 's Cup tradition is always at the back of our minds . |
| 30 | ‘ Leeds were always at the back of my mind as the side I would like to join if I came back to England , ’ said the 6ft 2in , 16 stone Iro . |