Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the back " in BNC.
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| 1 | The embroidery , a pattern of golden lily-flowers dotted here and there , each one at a fair distance from the other , would be confined to the shoulder band and to a broad sash fastening at the back in as large a bow as Miss Dallam would tolerate , its ends falling to the hem of her skirt . |
| 2 | First his Y-reg Yugo crunched into the back of a trailer behind a broken-down Austin Ambassador . |
| 3 | Street lamps streak her face , a voice streaks unconscious ears as the driver curses the dark , the hour , the traffic , the bloody liability sprawled on the back seat . |
| 4 | The old fear lurked at the back of his mind : suppose Lorton had set him up for Newley 's murder ? |
| 5 | ASENIOR police officer and his wife and two children escaped injury yesterday after a bomb containing up to 10lb of high explosive exploded at the back of their bungalow in Drumbo , south of Belfast . |
| 6 | The injured girl and another fifteen year old girl travelling in the back with her , were taken to Milton Keynes General Hospital . |
| 7 | Karelius was aware of a most painful sensation stabbing into the back of his eyes . |
| 8 | The small grey-haired chemist returned from the back of the shop , still bearing Ibn Fayoud 's prescription . |
| 9 | There was not a single hair on top ; he was reduced to a reddish fringe running round the back from ear to ear . |
| 10 | Note that the net 's top line runs across the back of the head to take up the slack . |
| 11 | A room which served Coleridge in a different way stood at the back of the house on the first floor : this was Tom Poole 's vaulted bookroom , created by him early in 1795 and filled with a wide-ranging library which helped to reconcile Coleridge to the loss of his frequent visits to the City Library in Bristol . |
| 12 | When she spoke now , there was a cruel plan forming in the back of her mind . |
| 13 | Like Valesio , he had been shot through the mouth , but this time the only sign of damage was a single discreet exit wound in the back of the neck . |
| 14 | the race-suit makers Stand 21 would immediately market a Nomex balaclava with a tonsorial condom tacked on the back : ‘ Make sure your tail does n't trail . ’ |
| 15 | AMT 's Accel-123 dot matrix printer has what looks like an embryonic serial part protruding from the back . |
| 16 | Between the window and the panelled door leading to the back kitchen was a section of wall some eighteen inches wide holding a well-designed , ornate oval mirror . |
| 17 | An oily mixture thrown from the back of a boat can draw hundreds of fulmars and petrels over kilometres of featureless ocean . |
| 18 | well you 're better again Jim , you 've got the fire er so you put the fire , you put the fire off , well this central heating comes from the back of that fire does n't it , so if you 've got the central heating on and you 've got it on full |
| 19 | A control account is merely an extra account inserted at the back of a ledger or kept separately to make the ledger self-balancing . |
| 20 | The village is a typical ‘ street ’ type of community , with the original single line of houses having been augmented in recent years with additional housing developing along the back lanes , behind the Main Street . |
| 21 | They can be easily distinguished from closed back rugs by the white threads of inserted wefting running across the back . |
| 22 | A vague idea formed at the back of his mind . |
| 23 | The contrast was stark : the English system was founded on a social interaction , with knowledge as the vehicle of communication ; the German system was founded on a personal interaction with knowledge , and any human interaction rode on the back of that experience . |
| 24 | He glimpsed the short white-haired figure heading for the back gate but did not say so until much later when Merlyn asked where she had got to . |
| 25 | Christina made soft mewing sounds in the back of her throat . |
| 26 | You 've seen the advert for KitKat have n't you where they have a little break sitting in the back of the van and the settee 's on the floor and the carpet 's on the floor and there 's a a lamp in there and there 's a piece of furni to one side . |
| 27 | Our customers are many and varied , ranging from domestic pets to farm animals and even an occasional exotic animal — like the lion that was brought from a travelling circus with a cut foot , and caused consternation amongst our more regular clients ; they were not prepared for such a large cat sitting in the back of a Land Rover in our car park . |
| 28 | At last a long despairing cry rose from the back of his throat and screamed shatteringly across the churchyard as he threw the baton away and clung sobbing to the angel . |
| 29 | The former England midfielder capitalised on a blunder by City defender Keith Curle , who could only nod Steve Hodge 's cross out to him — and he promptly half-volleyed a magnificent swerving shot into the back of the City net . |
| 30 | An important point since getting that first touch can do much to nip in the bud those ferocious Kiwi surges around the back of the lineout … |