Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] at the back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the job is done by vast machines , which , with their great bulk and ponderous gait , resemble elephants travelling in reverse , the chute for the reject stalks hanging at the back like a canvas trunk . |
| 2 | Lot one hundred and ten barrel organ showing at the back screen now , Lot one hundred and ten and I have three hundred pounds offered , twenty , three fifty , three eighty three hundred and eighty pounds , any more ? |
| 3 | A more fundamental design fault is the positioning of our noses above our mouths , which requires our food and air passages to meet at the back of the throat , an arrangement which exists because the nostril in fish is not a breathing passage , but an opening to a chemical sense organ . |
| 4 | Just for a moment she ignored the by now loud warning sirens wailing at the back of her mind . |
| 5 | A tiny alarm bell rang at the back of my head : could this be the classic distraction trick that comes just before a robbery ? |
| 6 | Slot screw fixing at the back of course ; but if the front is n't glued into its groove , who is to say that the back is n't going to remain static , while the front shrinks out of its groove ? |
| 7 | From a Bazil cross Lynas rose at the back post to head into the bottom corner of the net with eight minutes to go . |