Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [art] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or else you sort of jotted them down at the back of your mind , you know , to think about them later , but you never remembered , or you did but it was too late , they 'd gone , your head was full of other things . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ; . |
| 4 | Finally she stepped into her chosen dress , zipping it up at the back with practised ease . |
| 5 | Could I just ask you , did those bodices do up at the back with hooks and eyes ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Vincent stood up at the back of the room and walked modestly along the wall to the platform . |
| 8 | I used to tap dance , high kick , do splits , pull my legs up at the back of my head . |
| 9 | Carrie stood behind the counter of the dining rooms with her fair hair pulled up at the back of her head and held in place with a pair of large bone combs . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Slorne , who had been up at the back of her cage most of the day as usual , suddenly opened her wings , swung round and dropped down to the front of her cage . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Oh oh my hair 's standing up at the back of my neck . |
| 14 | They were standing in the stern of the vessel looking up at the back of the cabins . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | up there and all of a sudden he saw it and he came in the room , Tony and he went he looked up at it and the stood up at the back of his neck and he was going grurgh ever so quietly under his breath grurgh . |
| 17 | They found the brassiere under the bed and Jo let him hook it up at the back for her . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I was hanging around at the back of the church because I wanted a word with the vicar . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ She 's not very forthcoming always about what 's going on at the back of her mind , ’ he said after a time in a soft voice to Jo-Ann , ‘ but I can generally tell something about it from the way she moves her toes . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | But the van driver was already round at the back of his vehicle , unloading boxes . |
| 26 | 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 . |