Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] at the back " in BNC.
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| 1 | The embroidery , a pattern of golden lily-flowers dotted here and there , each one at a fair distance from the other , would be confined to the shoulder band and to a broad sash fastening at the back in as large a bow as Miss Dallam would tolerate , its ends falling to the hem of her skirt . |
| 2 | She was about to do the same with the contents of another file when something made her pause , hair prickling at the back of her head . |
| 3 | Allan Ramsay 's engaging portrait of Sir Edward and Lady Turner ( lot 21 , unpublished est. £250,000–350,000 ) , fresh from exhibition at the National Portrait Galleries of Edinburgh and London and sent to auction by the sitters ' descendants , fetched the morning 's top price , as expected , when it sold for £500,000 , an auction record for his work , to an agent bidding at the back of the room on behalf of a private collector against keen competition from David Posnett of Leger , who was the purchaser of a conversation piece by Nathaniel Hone ( lot 26 , est. £40,000–60,000 ) for £36,000 . |
| 4 | At this there was a loud outburst of laughter , and everyone looked at a girl sitting at the back , who , scarlet in the face , ran out of the room , sobbing . |
| 5 | She blinked her eyes away from that steady , searching appraisal , panic tugging at the back of her mind . |
| 6 | Slot screw fixing at the back of course ; but if the front is n't glued into its groove , who is to say that the back is n't going to remain static , while the front shrinks out of its groove ? |
| 7 | Lot one hundred and ten barrel organ showing at the back screen now , Lot one hundred and ten and I have three hundred pounds offered , twenty , three fifty , three eighty three hundred and eighty pounds , any more ? |
| 8 | She folded her arms over her chest , uncomfortably aware of the shabbiness of her old pink housecoat , uncomfortably aware of an anger sizzling at the back of those eyes . |
| 9 | Or had she — again she experienced that persistent feeling niggling at the back of her mind that somewhere she 'd seen him before . |
| 10 | Could I say at this stage , i is anybody having difficulty hearing at the back ? |