Example sentences of "at [art] back " in BNC.
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| 31 | Or as they descend the Eastern Terrace after climbing Psycho-Killer or MND , which of them notices the flowering profusion at the back of the terrace — the stonecrops , campion , roseroot and saxifrages ? |
| 32 | Even when , after several hours , the majority of emigrants had set off , a group of young men wearing track suits remained in darkness at the back of the embassy , helping the most recent arrivals over the railings . |
| 33 | At the back of the hall a handicapped woman sat quietly in a wheelchair and a man paced up and down , a tiny Down 's syndome baby gurgling in his arms . |
| 34 | At the back of the stage would be the new Tory slogan — ‘ The Right Team for the Future ’ . |
| 35 | ‘ And what they 've got is a legacy from the old days , all those little terraced cottages which never had boundaries at the back . |
| 36 | Now the job is done by vast machines , which , with their great bulk and ponderous gait , resemble elephants travelling in reverse , the chute for the reject stalks hanging at the back like a canvas trunk . |
| 37 | At the back of the machine , on our level , an ingenious device separates out most of the stones : a circular rubber pad revolves below brushes , which are stiff enough to sweep the potatoes off into their special channel , but not rigid enough to dislodge the stones until later . |
| 38 | In the compact bar space at the back of the store you can perch on a stool and eat tapas , sandwiches or a hot meal , washed down with cappuccino or Spanish beer . |
| 39 | Its vast walls of flint and glass and Gothic tracery were brilliantly floodlit and the churchyard cat , sleek and black as tar , greeted us querulously and led us right round the church and through the gravestones at the back , glimmering and pale in the moonlight . |
| 40 | With an equaliser the priority , the Scots were caught embarrassingly exposed at the back by Ferreri 's sweeping ball and Cantona found scoring a joyous simplicity . |
| 41 | John Gummer , the Minister of Agriculture , has been staying not at the Imperial , but at a modest B-&-B at the back of the conference hall . |
| 42 | My training had started to get better at the back end of the summer . |
| 43 | See if you can get hold of the medic at the back of the house . ’ |
| 44 | ‘ For Christ 's sake , Pat , not the big fat rabbit that was in the hutch hanging on the wall at the back of the house ? ’ |
| 45 | Wounded were being brought out from the orchard at the back of the farm which was being subjected to unusually heavy mortaring from the German positions just a short distance across the fields . |
| 46 | The mosquitoes do n't seem to like the rain either , they all seem to be at the back of the trench . |
| 47 | That evening is I crouched at the back of the slit trench , swatting the mauses and listening to the sound of shells passing over and the rain dripping steadily in through the entrance to the trench , I stared at the pool of water getting larger and hoped that the rain would soon stop , if it does n't I 'm in for an uncomfortable night . |
| 48 | I remember looking at the back of Don 's anorak and seeing Made in England and thinking , I wish I was back there . ’ |
| 49 | It is a well-researched book — it lists hundreds of sources ( including Air Mail ! ) at the back , and there are some interesting appendices . |
| 50 | ( At this point there is a disturbance at the back , while a small boy who shouted out ‘ Why ? ’ is bundled into the street . ) |
| 51 | If you go to one of their gigs , you will see row upon row of A&R men standing at the back in their black leather jackets , all ready to make an offer to record the band . |
| 52 | Being shortsighted I moved to the front while my mother stayed at the back . |
| 53 | At the back of the stalls there were radiators which had plush curtains and we would shove these cakes and sandwiches under the radiators , and the next time somebody ordered a ‘ cinema tea ’ we would go to the kitchen and order a pot . |
| 54 | When we had the circus the lions were put behind the screen , but we were showing an MGM picture and every time the lion at the beginning roared the lions at the back would answer him . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | It was a perfect passing away for both of them , and at the same time the most intolerable accession into being , the marvellous fullness of immediate gratification , overwhelming , outflooding from the source of the deepest life-force , the darkest , deepest , strangest life-source of the human body , at the back and base of the loins . |
| 57 | I remember standing at the back of The Lyceum and looking down at the crowd . |
| 58 | for three numbers the Maltese heavy stared at him — while all his henchmen stood at the back of the club watching him watching John . |
| 59 | It was also during this period that we had the strangest set of photographs taken of us , by Peter Christopherson who worked for a design company , Hipgnosis — whose offices were at the back of our Denmark Street HQ — and who later joined Throbbing Gristle , a band best known for tabloid spreads on their occult practices . |
| 60 | Being anchor man , the one at the back of the rope , and because we were walking directly into the sun , I delighted in the shadows of those in front . |