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Example sentences of "on [pron] back " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ Will thoo tek notice of an old man wi' a bit more wool on 'is back ? ’ he asked .
2	‘ Just you tap away , Mr Auguste , and if you 'it the little feller on 'is back you 'll 'ear 'is 'ollow sound like . ’
3	‘ I have spots on my back .
4	I rolled on my back , stuck my legs in the air and laughed .
5	I could feel the blast on my back as I was pitched forward , landing face down on the ground unable to move and gasping for breath .
6	I moved further into the trench , lay on my back and tried to sleep , which was very difficult due to the mosquitoes and the uncertainty of the situation .
7	‘ When I started I was carrying flour sacks on my back , digging fat out of boxes , syrup out of barrels , that sort of thing .
8	To help I now had three rucsacs on my back .
9	The truth is that uphill the extra weight made it a little harder than walking , but the weight was not directly on my back , a fact that I appreciated .
10	I 'd just lie on my back like Marie showed me and float like a fag packet .
11	My speciality shifted from building to wading through the Bunyala swamps with wellies and a rucksack on my back .
12	It sounded extremely good , so I , lying on my back in the sunshine , shouted up to the open windows , ‘ Hello , who 's playing that ? ’
13	At this point a rather anaemic looking face with a halo of rather greasy looking blonde curls , poked his head out of the window , looking down at me lying flat on my back and said , ‘ It 's me , who are you ? ’
14	I floated on my back looking up at the puffs of white cloud dotted about the blue sky .
15	I have a feeling now , as if I 'm walking around with a sign on my back saying ‘ Kick me ’ , or ‘ I 'm a prat ’ , the sort of horrible joke kids play on each other , because I feel as though that 's exactly how people treat me .
16	This is the kind of dreamy Hollywood fantasy I like to float in when I 'm lying flat on my back under some dirty platform desperately trying to tack a loose wire or stubborn piece of baize into position — or standing in a wet field trying to work out exactly how the VIPs will swim through the mud from the helicopter to the marquee .
17	I told Michael Quirke how a heron had once nearly landed on my back in Wales , and he was mightily impressed , taking it as a good luck omen .
18	The sun on my back was warm , but the February nights were still near zero and I was wearing only a sweater .
19	I have carried a heavy load on my back ever since I was a boy .
20	I lay on my back with my legs in the air and pushed .
21	Soon I was alone , sitting overlooking the site , the sun warm on my back at last .
22	The previous evening , I could not have completed the last fifty yards without his help , but now if he had climbed on my back he could not have been more of a hindrance .
23	I could put everything on my back between villages because , this side of Adrar , they occurred almost every twenty miles .
24	They agreed to transport the wheelbarrow on those days when I was able to carry supplies on my back from one village to the next .
25	I would walk north to south , with the wind on my back , and raise sponsorship for the sort of people I had met in Nigeria .
26	My head was turned sideways , cushioned on an arm , my heart beat loudly , and the sun was hot on my back .
27	I could not sleep but lay on my back staring at the blackness , listening to the wind and one of the lads snoring .
28	When the jobs were done , I switched off my torch and lay on my back listening to a gerbil skidding up and down the tent under the fly-sheet .
29	I lay on my back and tiredness came spinning towards me in widening circles as the white beach and whiskery grasses had come spinning towards me out of the night .
30	As I lay on my back and tried to visualize those brigades of white cells marching to my rescue , all I saw were those other cadavers so plentiful in our ancient cathedrals .