Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun] [prep] the back " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when the public started seeing my name on the back of these albums , the subsequent demand was staggering ! |
| 2 | As the last of the boys arrived I thought that maybe I could just make my way to the back of the queue , or sprint back to the changing room on one pretext or another and conveniently lose my place in the line . |
| 3 | As a youngster in the 1950s my greatest delight was to run on to the pitch at Murrayfield after the full-time whistle , pat my heroes on the back and not wash my hands for a week , much to the disgust of my mother . |
| 4 | Forge my name on the back of the cheque and endorse it to yourself ? ’ |
| 5 | I make my way to the back holding on carefully . |
| 6 | Guido climbed out and snatched her cases from the back seat . |
| 7 | She stood up , mopping her brow with the back of a skeleton wrist . |
| 8 | The man had his fingers around the woman 's throat and was banging her head against the back of the seat . |
| 9 | He kept rubbing his cheek against mine , and so I was thankful when his mother stopped her trolley at the back of a bright red Mercedes . |
| 10 | She got a full nelson , and sank her claws into the back of her neck , pressing the Daughter 's face to the hard-beaten earth of the street . |
| 11 | When he walked in the stable door accompanied by his usual aroma , the foal fastened her ears to the back of her neck and attempted to attack him with feet and teeth ! |
| 12 | Dawn Allenby presented Richard St Ives with an oil-painting of a bull in a tortoise-shell frame which had caught her eye at the back of a butcher 's stall in St John 's Market . |
| 13 | Mr Hellyer straightened up , moved his cap to the back of his head and scratched it . |
| 14 | She pleaded with Andrew to curtail their power , but her easy-going husband was unable to prevent them from stabbing his wife in the back . |
| 15 | Slinging his mac over the back of a pew he sat down and rested his feet on the one in front . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , I do n't mind them , ’ said Bob , wedging his head against the back of the chair , so that the colossal thumping going on inside his skull would n't shake it loose from its mountings . |
| 17 | To feel the stretch in the thighs , hips and buttocks , place your hand on the back of your thigh as you move the leg . |
| 18 | Please send two recent colour photographs that show your hair clearly — remember to write your name on the back of them . |
| 19 | He would plant her downstage and get her to start playing ’ I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls , ’ and then sabotage her work from the back wall . |
| 20 | Hanging her coat on the back of the door in her office , she observed the utilitarian nature of her surroundings with even more dissatisfaction than usual . |
| 21 | Plummer ran a hand over his hair then stood beside her , touching her cheek with the back of his hand . |
| 22 | A WOMAN stabbed her husband in the back as he laughed at her , a court heard . |
| 23 | She spun it round and straddled the seat , laid her forearms along the back and sank her head on them . |
| 24 | Deaths : Sammy Fain : in Los Angeles aged 87 : one of the last tunesmiths who peddled their songs from the back of trucks and in the dingy hallways of Tin Pan Alley . |
| 25 | ‘ Let's hope he 's a bit more receptive to accident prevention than the last one , ’ said Ron cryptically as Rachel made her way to the back of the room amid a murmur of amused assent . |
| 26 | They ducked under the sagging wire and made their way round the back of the lake . |
| 27 | Belinda wiped her mouth with the back of her hand . |
| 28 | She sniffed and wiped her nose with the back of her hand . |
| 29 | She wiped her eyes with the back of her hand , knowing in her heart that it was an excuse to curtail the physical contact with him . |
| 30 | She wiped her eyes with the back of her hand . |