Example sentences of "back [prep] the [adj] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tube burst and the blow back threw him back against the tender end . |
| 2 | ‘ Demonstrate , Nicholson , ’ Mr Foggerty said hopefully , but Nicholson demonstrated by swimming away back to the deep end , mostly underwater where he was hard to see . |
| 3 | I turned without stopping and crawled back to the deep end , looking back as I breathed to make sure she was following . |
| 4 | The organizer tells a story and , when a couple 's word is mentioned , they jump up and run down the outside of the teams , back to the other end jumping over the legs and then back to their seats . |
| 5 | Two bespectacled scientists , doing an early season wasp count , were about to head back to the far end of the lake with their analyses of how often the summer visitors would be stung that year . |
| 6 | Guy was sitting at the pool 's edge as she swam back to the shallow end . |
| 7 | Now he was back at the sharp end . |
| 8 | He poured out , sat back at the other end of the sofa , looked at her . |
| 9 | Back at the other end , those waves of Lincoln attacks were still crashing in . |
| 10 | Newcastle went into a six nil lead thanks to two penalties from David Johnson … the cherry and whites pulled level thanks to two penalties from full-back Tim Smith … back at the other end two more kicks from Johnson took Newacstle into a half-time lead … |
| 11 | back at the other end acrobatics from Stevens made it 2-1 |
| 12 | ‘ But there 's nothing , ’ Clare repeated in amazement , as she followed Caro over the raw uneven ground , and looked back at the truncated ends of the streets they were leaving behind them . |