Example sentences of "[vb past] up [prep] the back " in BNC.

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1 When I regained control , telling myself , ‘ It 's OK , you 're not taped , you 're not in the truck , ’ I was always left with a residue of remembered fear , which built up in the back of my mind .
2 He hunched up against the back of the car .
3 Anne swallowed the gulp of hot bile that came up in the back of her mouth .
4 Did you do it in the cabin or was there a bed made up in the back ?
5 A thin streak of a woman bobbed up at the back .
6 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 .
7 The final image of him after that goal — flustered , exhausted , snarled up in the back of his own goalkeeper 's net with his studs caught in the meshing — could be the definitive fate of most of Hateley 's minders .
8 And er this hand went up from the back , you see .
9 Then he looked up towards the back , and Shelley knew , with a sudden shock , that he must be looking for her , but she was too nervous to stand up .
10 But here we are instead , snuggled up in the back seat of a taxi : me on the left , Rachel on the right , and Darius bright-eyed and eager in between .
11 look at Bryony , with that red peaked hood and , and the front of this rain cover hanging down and the back bit all punched up at the back
12 ‘ But I have a good right peg and it ended up in the back of the net . ’
13 Vincent stood up at the back of the room and walked modestly along the wall to the platform .
14 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 .
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