Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once when I was looking out the back of the palace and shots around the back and a shell hit the palace , so it came in my eyes and it hit |
| 2 | I laid it on the floor and I was hit in the back . |
| 3 | I was kicked in the back in the melee . |
| 4 | Meanwhile I was fainting in the back seat , just thinking of what that tight black mid-thigh skirt concealed . |
| 5 | I was stabbed in the back because I do n't have those problems with Steve . |
| 6 | Anyway , when I woke up I was pressed into the back of my seat . |
| 7 | I was bundled into the back of a car with a scarf tied over my eyes . |
| 8 | I was sitting at the back of the 17th green at the Scottish Open this year watching the action . |
| 9 | Then , not more than a week later , I was coming down the back corridor from the kitchen when Miss Kenton came out of her parlour and uttered a statement she had clearly been rehearsing ; this was something to the effect that although she felt most uncomfortable drawing my attention to errors made by my staff , she and I had to work as a team , and she hoped I would not feel inhibited to do similarly should I notice errors made by female staff . |
| 10 | This guy went out with Lee next day , and I was standing at the back of the 9th green when Lee 's manager came running up to me and said , ‘ Willie , you 've got to take the bag — Lee 's fired the other guy . ’ |
| 11 | I was standing in the back of a small boat , drifting down some English river I 've never seen — the kind with dappled , overhang-ing leaves reflected in the water — grasping a punt-pole in my hands and propelling the flat boat like it was something I 'd done for years . |
| 12 | ‘ Has anyone seen Christine or Robert King ? ’ she asked , turning to the others who were sitting at the back of the hall . |
| 13 | There was nobody else except two strangers who were standing at the back of the church . |
| 14 | Mm yeah Brian 's argument to that is that er if you 've got if you were hit in the back |
| 15 | Well apart from those things erm tt when , when you were talking about the back erm Steve sort of gestured , in a way , that yes my back was erm oh my back , yes , that 's only a one off thing , there may have been some other health problem there which could 've gone into . |
| 16 | You were sat in the back seat were you ? |
| 17 | A party of Young Conservatives , led by their national chairman , Wullie Robertson , a hairy , bearded Scot with a beer belly , wearing a T-shirt with the legend , ‘ She was stabbed in the back ’ , across it , made its way towards the exit and the real world outside . |
| 18 | She was featured on the back cover of the Spring edition of Assay . |
| 19 | As she was led towards the back of it , there was time and light only for her to take in a number of doors on either side , a pervasive smell of must , dark wood panelling , and the central staircase leading to an upper gallery that ran left and right above . |
| 20 | She was launched into the back of the van , wincing as her knees cracked against metal . |
| 21 | She was slammed into the back of her seat . |
| 22 | And er very straight-faced in fact , and she was sitting at the back of the room , and I , I 'd just said to everybody , I said nobody here 's got a life purchased annuity , have they ? |
| 23 | Twenty minutes later she was sitting in the back of her big black car , drinking a cup of coffee and talking to the Chief of Airport Police on the car telephone . |
| 24 | ‘ She was sitting in the back of this car , all dressed up , and I remember saying to her , ‘ You do n't have to do this , you know ’ . |
| 25 | But 22-year-old Alison Scott , who was hit in the back , says she will not let the incident cloud her life . |
| 26 | A 16-year-old boy who was trapped in the back of the van also died . |
| 27 | Here he caught sight of Aziz the janitor , who was standing at the back of the hall with his mop and bucket . |
| 28 | At the very last minute Nessie handed the pig bucket to Tim , who was sitting at the back with Kevin and the children ready to jump off at the road end . |
| 29 | At the end of the reading there was some consternation but Eliot , who was sitting at the back of the room , was heard to mutter , " It 's a good poem , it 's a very good poem " . |
| 30 | The van , being driven by David William Crease , 21 , went out of control on a straight stretch of unclassified road , crushing Mr Chapman who was sitting in the back . |