Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] the back " in BNC.
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1 | Sticking with clothing , those hapless popsters OCEAN COLOUR SCENE are grieving over the loss of more than £2,000 worth of T-shirts which managed to fall out of the back of their van while they drove through the Moseley area of Birmingham last week . |
2 | ADO Thorpe said : ‘ It was an open lorry and he got thrown about in the back . |
3 | These cottage front doors were never used — some even had rows of flowerpots across the sill as a deterrent — and Anna had to go round to the back to find a resting place for the magazine . |
4 | Thus all rations for the men at the front had to come up on the backs of other men . |
5 | I flung the sporting pistol I had looted on to the back seat , relieved to think I would never have to defend myself with it . |
6 | When a younger and less sophisticated Hank had come quietly through the back gate in search of the garage , the couple had been busy planting a lilac tree . |
7 | But Cher had slipped away to the back of the restaurant . |