Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] at [art] back [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Boys 14 and 15 once tried to sit at the back of the coach but were rapidly sent to the front where , it was said , ‘ they always sat ’ .
2 Very slowly an idea began to form at the back of his mind .
3 A tiny weeny hint of a plan began to tinkle at the back of my brain like a triangle at the back of an orchestra .
4 He stopped , and there was a pause , and then someone started to clap at the back of the studio , and George , who had been sitting with his chin on his chest , impassively listening , looked up .
5 The front of her hair was flattened by a battery of pearl clips and left to rise at the back in styrofoam peaks .
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