Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the back " in BNC.
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| 1 | The memory of my discomfiture fermented in the back of my mind for some time . |
| 2 | If anyone had seen me bent over a motorbike with my ear pressed to the back of a Transit van outside the Barbican that morning , probably nobody would have looked twice . |
| 3 | Your lordship may see the print of my affection scored across the back of his left hand and wrist , if you care to make him hand you his manor roll tomorrow . |
| 4 | Being shortsighted I moved to the front while my mother stayed at the back . |
| 5 | Until , under the mirror , after many a circle and feint , after many a playful retreat and renewed approach , Ivan at last cornered her , and even before he opened his mouth she felt the smell of fear from herself : her pores broke open , she stood there panting slightly , her hair rising on the back of her neck in terror , her heated skin covered in icy sweat : ‘ And when , ’ asked Ivan pleasantly , ‘ are you two going to make the announcement ? |
| 6 | Their car crashed into the back of an army lorry and burst into flames . |
| 7 | Both women were killed on the M-four near Swindon when their car crashed into the back of an army convoy and caught fire . |
| 8 | The Carrera 4 still has its engine sited behind the back axle , VW Beetle-style , in no man 's land where no self-respecting car designer would ever site the engine of a truly new car . |
| 9 | Finally , she gave her head a shake that set her ear-rings dancing and her pony-tail skimming across the back of her seat . |
| 10 | Felicity was lying with her head resting on the back of her chair , gazing up at the ceiling , her long legs stretched across her desk . |
| 11 | Their chair ploughed into the back . |
| 12 | She in her turn disappeared out the back . |
| 13 | Her hand drifted to the back of his head and without any conscious decision of her own it pressed lightly to bring his mouth to her aching , demanding breast . |
| 14 | Her mother rode in the back seat — silent , exuding complacency . |
| 15 | ‘ My mates always seemed to score and spent their time snogging in the back row . |
| 16 | I could not use the word though ; its power caught in the back of my throat and held me , voiceless . |
| 17 | The look in his eye , when it met Gabriel 's , frightened the boy more than ever — made his heart cower in the back of its cage . |
| 18 | She realized this openly and laughed at him in the sun , saying that the Afghans could n't manage it either , and her blatant flirtatiousness fuelled him to perform one of his music-hall leaps over the back of the car into the bucket seat . |
| 19 | It depicts in relief Hercules holding his club kneeling on the back of a lion ( fig. 14.41 ) . |
| 20 | The former National Party leader and Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon , also an outspoken opponent of free market economics , was offered several minor posts outside the Cabinet , but turned them all down as " insulting " and expressed his intention to remain on the back benches , from where he would be free to criticize the new government . |
| 21 | She placed his pulsing prong back into her luscious wet mouth , and sucked until his spunk fired into the back of her throat . |
| 22 | His ball bounced through the back of the green and he did n't get up and down for a birdie . |
| 23 | But Ryan decided that he 'd have his head shaved at the back of his head , so he got this boy to write his name on . |
| 24 | Every few miles his suitcase bounced out the back of the cart and Tock became annoyed at having to stop and collect it all the time . |
| 25 | Norman , meanwhile , sent his approach shot through the back of the green and needed another two to get down . |
| 26 | His head sang with pain and his stomach heeled over as he stood up , his hand flailing for the back of a chair to support him . |
| 27 | His hand curled around the back of her neck , slipping under the heavy weight of her hair , and she shuddered violently , her whole body so tense that she felt she would shatter into a thousand tiny pieces . |
| 28 | With a shake of her head , she had the thickness of his sexuality wedged into the back of her throat . |
| 29 | The Feldwebel bounced up and down with laughter so that his hat fell off the back of his head and even the officer allowed himself a smile . |
| 30 | Read it again to be heard by eight or ten adults in your sitting-room , and again to be heard in a big hall , allowing time for your voice to travel to the back of the hall . |