Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [art] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The fifteenth hole is short but dangerous ; its plateau green is ringed by bunkers at the front and sides and the trees press in at the back in a claustrophobic way — a nightmarish hole if you are playing badly . |
2 | Small signs of a Conservative Party ‘ turquoise tendency ’ had emerged from the Bow Group which criticised the UK for ‘ trailing lamely along at the back of the international pack ’ and proposed a new Clean Air Act to halve the output of SO&sub2 ; . |
3 | Takeshiba-O made the early pace followed by the two American horses Czar Alexander and Fort Marcy , while Piggott was content to keep Sir Ivor well covered up at the back of the field with La Lagune . |
4 | Vincent stood up at the back of the room and walked modestly along the wall to the platform . |
5 | As I pull up at the back of the hotel Mr Shah is waiting with a folder full ; his expression , although friendly , contains around his mouth a little reproach that I should have been away from the action for so long . |
6 | ‘ Two men , a green BMW , loading up at the back of the house , please do n't fuck me around , ’ Culley said , ‘ because I 'm becoming angry , and I want to know where they 've gone . ’ |
7 | They were standing in the stern of the vessel looking up at the back of the cabins . |
8 | Inside the yard there was hooks up at the back of the place and we used to hang this big cloth down so they were warm . |
9 | It was high-necked and had long tight sleeves and a straight line to the floor , where it flared out at the back into a huge swirling fishtail train . |
10 | Never mind that this is very seldom what happens when a bullet strikes a forehead and especially when it comes out at the back of the head . |
11 | I was hanging around at the back of the church because I wanted a word with the vicar . |
12 | ‘ In April , hundreds of runners can be found digging around at the back of the wardrobe , trying to find that old pair of track spikes . |
13 | Fifi had wandered off and was throwing small handfuls of straw around at the back of the cage but the big chimp stood up and grasped the bars , still rocking . |
14 | but er any attempt to put anything on at the back to the extent , right up to the Scout 's hut in Beech Hall will , I think , generate a lot of feelings about |
15 | And by the time we got there we could see a fire round at the back of the the crane pedestal which was in B module where most of the oil separation plant is . |