Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] at the back " in BNC.
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1 | And so er , they changed hats , when they get there , and the chauffeur 's introduced a as the professor , goes on the platform , and of course the professor sits at the back of the room with the chauffeur 's hat . |
2 | Bernice was pushed between the canvas flaps at the back of the wagon . |
3 | He had only just disappeared down the graveyard path and out of sight when the postman arrived at the back gate . |
4 | The Vice-Admiral lived at the back , and he opened his front door a few seconds after Pooley rang the bell . |
5 | It fitted her in as much as it had ever fitted anyone , but the bodice hung droopily over her breasts , and the neckline gaped softly round her throat , and the hem dipped at the back , with a scarcely perceptible , ineradicable dip . |
6 | The Rasakumbha positioned at the back of the image . |
7 | Further details , including written information about any of our savings or lending services , can be obtained from any Midland Bank branch , or from the address shown at the back of this leaflet . |
8 | We know he is interested in trains ; the railway runs at the back of his house , and he has often watched the trains and he knows them well . |
9 | The protest floated at the back of her numbed mind : how could she have the heart to deal such a blow only to satisfy her own thirst for scandal ? |
10 | Sorry to butt in but if anybody 's got a car parked at the back here , the warden 's taken all the . |
11 | At this there was a loud outburst of laughter , and everyone looked at a girl sitting at the back , who , scarlet in the face , ran out of the room , sobbing . |
12 | Yesterday afternoon , they discovered a body buried at the back of a house in Swindon 's Old Town . |
13 | Aunt Ema wore a scarf knotted at the back of her head in the way particular to women of the Kras , and she was always smiling . |
14 | R.B. Kitaj 's ‘ Rock garden ’ ( lot 42 , est. $200–300,000 ) , his major statement on Jewish anguish , was bought by a bidder seated at the back of the room for $140,000 ( £77,800 ) . |
15 | And that 's where he moved from here over the road and after then he used to have his own , see , he had a slaughterhouse built at the back , see , he done away with the slaughterhouse down the piste and he used to kill all his stuff there . |
16 | And then they make you do it — with a gun pointed at the back of your neck . |
17 | Allan Ramsay 's engaging portrait of Sir Edward and Lady Turner ( lot 21 , unpublished est. £250,000–350,000 ) , fresh from exhibition at the National Portrait Galleries of Edinburgh and London and sent to auction by the sitters ' descendants , fetched the morning 's top price , as expected , when it sold for £500,000 , an auction record for his work , to an agent bidding at the back of the room on behalf of a private collector against keen competition from David Posnett of Leger , who was the purchaser of a conversation piece by Nathaniel Hone ( lot 26 , est. £40,000–60,000 ) for £36,000 . |
18 | She folded her arms over her chest , uncomfortably aware of the shabbiness of her old pink housecoat , uncomfortably aware of an anger sizzling at the back of those eyes . |