Example sentences of "be [v-ing] at [art] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , then then it , when you 're looking at the back , unusual part of the Lotus again , you know which page of the manual to go , or all of the help screens . |
| 2 | So this kind of erm interest in children and in whether a couple are able to have children or not is has obviously been lying at the back of his mind has n't he ? |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll be sitting at the back and I do n't want anybody showing up the firm , asking questions , telling tales , you get my meaning ? ’ |
| 4 | I 'm sitting at the back |
| 5 | Although he had been fortunate to have been sitting at the back of the coach he received a fractured spine . |
| 6 | There was nobody else except two strangers who were standing at the back of the church . |
| 7 | ‘ Has anyone seen Christine or Robert King ? ’ she asked , turning to the others who were sitting at the back of the hall . |
| 8 | There were no people at the tables , and Aileen and Tildy were working at the back of the restaurant . |
| 9 | The tears that were burning at the back of her eyes began to fall as soon as she entered her room , and , flinging herself on the bed , she gave way to helpless misery . |
| 10 | That and the fact that she had managed to stir all those self-doubts that had been hovering at the back of her mind . |
| 11 | Here it is seen on a private hire : Walter Luff is sitting at the back of the saloon . |
| 12 | Erm , what happens of course , is th that the lecture is brilliantly delivered , er , but , but , what happens is he , the chauffeur finishes two minutes early and the chairman , being excellent as a Chairperson , actually says , we have time for just one question , and er , someone stands up and asks the most dreadful question from the audience , and er , the chauffeur listens to the question , thinks , and th then says , that 's questions very easy , very easy indeed , that question is so easy , I 'm going to ask my chauffeur who is sitting at the back of the room |
| 13 | I started to look around and I put my hand up and it was lying at the back of my collar |
| 14 | Pinnacle , based in Columbus , Ohio , had originally planned to use the Texas Instruments Inc 64-bit SuperSparc that Sun is using in its latest workstations , but realised some time ago that it was waiting at the back of a long line of manufacturers queuing for a trickle of SuperSparcs being thrown their way . |
| 15 | At the very last minute Nessie handed the pig bucket to Tim , who was sitting at the back with Kevin and the children ready to jump off at the road end . |
| 16 | I was sitting at the back of the 17th green at the Scottish Open this year watching the action . |
| 17 | At the end of the reading there was some consternation but Eliot , who was sitting at the back of the room , was heard to mutter , " It 's a good poem , it 's a very good poem " . |
| 18 | And er very straight-faced in fact , and she was sitting at the back of the room , and I , I 'd just said to everybody , I said nobody here 's got a life purchased annuity , have they ? |
| 19 | Charles was sitting at the back of the hall with Malcolm Harris , and kept feeling the author tense as another of his speeches was chopped up and destroyed . |
| 20 | On Friday Madge Grimsilk was sitting at the back of the stalls again . |
| 21 | Gilbert Forbes , still in his butler 's costume but without the tail coat and his toupee , was standing at the back of the group , his bald head pallid above his painted face . |
| 22 | This guy went out with Lee next day , and I was standing at the back of the 9th green when Lee 's manager came running up to me and said , ‘ Willie , you 've got to take the bag — Lee 's fired the other guy . ’ |
| 23 | One of the young men , also with a machine gun , was standing at the back of the plane . |
| 24 | Here he caught sight of Aziz the janitor , who was standing at the back of the hall with his mop and bucket . |
| 25 | Something was gnawing at the back of his mind . |