Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to the back of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blood had initially drained down to the back of the neck , thighs and mid-back . ’ |
| 2 | There was a small-screen TV that some Helsinki taxis fit on to the back of the driving seat . |
| 3 | The rudder and tiller assembly simply slot on to the back of the boat but the important thing to remember is that the tiller must go underneath the rope force before the rudder is clipped on . |
| 4 | They drew down to the back of the hummock which remained an ivy-grown tump until they were within a few paces and could see rough-hewn timber planks behind it . |
| 5 | He moved around to the back of the house , and then ducked in to the laneway that ran behind it . |
| 6 | But I must have felt the need for some support , because I found I 'd grabbed hold of one of my hammers — a geologist is always armed with a hammer — and when I got through to the back of the house he was there already , at the kitchen window . ’ |
| 7 | Well some of them came by road and RAF trucks , the fuselages , and then there were all they started at the top of the airfield in the old flying club pavilion , and then they were er stripped down and stuff was taken off them , checked out , for airworthiness to see whether it was ready to go back on the planes , and then they came down to the back of the top hanger which was then they were all down to the skeleton of the aircraft and they started rebuilding them again like , there were engine shops and the place at the bottom hanger where they used to make the Swallow side-cars was the spraying and where they completed the aircraft . |
| 8 | She could feel them pierce through to the back of her head . |
| 9 | Generally , it was the smaller snail that climbed on to the back of the larger one and actively courted it , while the larger snail was passive , simply accepting or rejecting the advance . |
| 10 | And the bridge , with the strings going through to the back of the body ? |
| 11 | I gave one dose of Syphilinum 200 and 4 weeks later she had fear of cancer , stomach discomfort and a peculiar symptom of food going up to the back of the nose on swallowing . |
| 12 | Swim clear of all the ropes , swim around to the back of the boat , pull the daggerboard down and then simply flip the boat upright again . |
| 13 | Lee was behind him , holding on to the back of his anorak and bumping him with the torch . |
| 14 | I stood up , holding on to the back of my chair , my heart beating like a hammer . |
| 15 | He hung on to the back of her coat , whimpering under his breath as she led the way down the path . |
| 16 | A policeman caught a well-known burglar breaking in to the back of a shop late one night . |
| 17 | He walked through to the back of the shop and called out to his father-in-law . |
| 18 | They all walked around to the back of the coach and waited for the driver to open the boot for them . |
| 19 | The salesman was just closing the hood , and Hank walked round to the back of the car and bounced it firmly up and down with his hands . |
| 20 | ‘ Get on , ’ Piladu repeated , and the dog walked round to the back of the sheepfold . |
| 21 | She walked round to the back of the car . |
| 22 | The Gascon led Corbett and Ranulf through a maze of corridors which led out to the back of the palace , across a deserted dusty yard into one of the large outbuildings there . |
| 23 | It had taken three-quarters of an hour to sort out the situation at the crossroads in Ramsgate , make statements to the police , get the names of witnesses , watch the crippled Jaguar being winched on to the back of the Relay tender . |
| 24 | A spokesman for Darlington police said the thieves got into the bank through the rear and then broke through to the back of the cash dispensing machines in the bank foyer . |
| 25 | I crept around to the back of the house and watched as he carried her through the kitchen and into the garage . |
| 26 | One of the most dangerous stunts Crawford did in the new series was to hang on to the back of a car as it dangled over sea and rocks two hundred feet below . |
| 27 | ‘ Wheeeeeeeee ! ’ yelled Joe , jumping on to the back of the chair , and he and Min whizzed down the street , bumping on the uneven paving slabs . |
| 28 | " I can show you how , " he promised , " but we would have to hold on to the back of a chair . " |
| 29 | Henry went through to the back of the shop . |
| 30 | Yanto went around to the back of the cottage where the ‘ lean to ’ lavatory was situated , it 's door almost inaccessible because of a loganberry bush . |