Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [prep] the back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lightly clasp your hands I together behind the back of your head . |
| 2 | She wiped them away with the back of one trembling hand . |
| 3 | He offered to take her home on the back of his horse . |
| 4 | Without warning he grabbed her tennis racquet — which she 'd been swinging so nonchalantly and grasping her by the scruff of the neck , pushed her roughly over the back of a chair . |
| 5 | He went for the machine-gun , but someone kicked him hard in the back of the head . |
| 6 | Len Seager had been conscious throughout the entire rescue operation and as Rachel joined him briefly in the back of the ambulance and covered him with an extra blanket he managed another smile . |
| 7 | The Viscount nodded , although he had scarcely heard what was said , registering it somewhere at the back of his mind . |
| 8 | He had turned to look at her , slipping off his coat as he did so and tossing it carelessly over the back of one of the armchairs . |
| 9 | ‘ We found a few , ’ he told her , answering her question about the mussels , pulling off his jacket as he did so and draping it carelessly over the back of the chair . |
| 10 | He scrawled it quickly on the back of his card . |
| 11 | Hauser was talking again after removing his jacket , placing it carefully over the back of his chair . |
| 12 | She set the candelabrum and the tray down on one of the tables , removing his greatcoat and placing it carefully over the back of a chair so that she might lay out a cloth and utensils . |
| 13 | She whisked Nicandra 's large linen napkin off her knees and tied it round her waist , then joined her own to it and knotted it securely to the back of Nicandra 's chair . |
| 14 | To cut-in a carpet tile , turn the tile over , carefully calculate the area to be cut , and mark it accurately on the back of the tile . |
| 15 | He pulled off part of the officer 's jumper and pulled it tightly across the back of his neck . |
| 16 | Put it instead at the back of a base cabinet or high up on a wall cabinet , or in the space , if there is one , between wall cabinets and ceiling which you can always turn into a second tier of cabinets by adding fronts to match your other units . |
| 17 | He pulled off his jacket , throwing it casually across the back of his chair . |
| 18 | We have some good news for Norbert Stiles O.B.E. since he will keep it tight at the back for our key diplomatic posting . |