Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [art] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boys 14 and 15 once tried to sit at the back of the coach but were rapidly sent to the front where , it was said , ‘ they always sat ’ . |
| 2 | She closed her door quietly , regretting not leaving the Polo on the road , and tried to sneak through the back way to her room . |
| 3 | As the sun rose higher in the pale sky the temperature climbed steeply and patches of perspiration began to appear on the backs of the men 's shirts . |
| 4 | When she 'd been right round the edges of the roof and gathered all the flowers into a bunch , she climbed down the ladder and began to walk along the back path out of the village . |
| 5 | Very slowly an idea began to form at the back of his mind . |
| 6 | A tiny weeny hint of a plan began to tinkle at the back of my brain like a triangle at the back of an orchestra . |
| 7 | He stopped , and there was a pause , and then someone started to clap at the back of the studio , and George , who had been sitting with his chin on his chest , impassively listening , looked up . |
| 8 | Once the three of us were in Eva 's car in the High Street and Dad started to cry in the back . |
| 9 | Azhag rode to battle on the back of a large wyvern , often harrying his retreating enemies from the air after a battle . |
| 10 | Even though the ball was , to scale , probably seven foot high it still managed to go in the back of the net . |
| 11 | The Romanians managed to duck round the back and take up the lead as the French extracted themselves from their collision with the pontoon . |
| 12 | His shoulder and arm were broken , and with great difficulty he managed to climb on the back of one of his brave rescuers , and followed by the rest of the herd , reached his home . |
| 13 | ‘ His bedroom is that room there ; he preferred to sleep in the back . |
| 14 | Yeah , I jus I skidded to stop on the back end of it . |
| 15 | The leaders had their work cut out keeping the group together , and one or both had to remain at the back to motivate the slower ones — the most effective method seemed to be carrying their kit , though this tended to be a last resort . |
| 16 | There were so many mourners at the funeral that some had to stand at the back and listen to the service relayed by loudspeakers . |
| 17 | Only after that , and with a few facts from your GP , plus half a page on your stresses during the last five years — I had to overflow onto the back of my page and with a little encouragement could easily have made it a 100,000 words — can you go through the eye of the needle . |
| 18 | The front of her hair was flattened by a battery of pearl clips and left to rise at the back in styrofoam peaks . |
| 19 | She made it clear ( I do n't remember how ) that she wanted to go to the back of the house , to the kitchen . |
| 20 | Gabriel wanted to dive over the back of the stage , as he had to escape the Guildsmen in Greathaven . |