Example sentences of "bringing [adv prt] the rear " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bringing up the rear is the smallest yacht in the race , the 51-footer La Poste , which is due to arrive on Sunday . |
| 2 | A few seconds later the pipes are assembled and I enter the town playing Highland Laddie , not at the front of the column , but bringing up the rear . |
| 3 | Bringing up the rear , Stanley , catalogue in hand , turned and gestured with his head , as if to say : ‘ Are you coming then ? ’ |
| 4 | A Major and a Captain hurriedly came on the scene , Lieutenant Keith bringing up the rear . |
| 5 | The difference in log odds gives exactly the same rank order as the ratio of proportions did : the private schools ( HMC then non-HMC ) are the most exclusive in terms of selecting service class as opposed to working class children , followed by direct grant schools , then grammar schools , comprehensive schools , and technical schools , with secondary moderns bringing up the rear . |
| 6 | The Leader , following in the track of the horses , went some paces ahead scanning the forest on either side ; behind him followed Hugh , walking close by Marian 's side ; still further back , together but with the width of the track between them , were Michael and the thin man ; and bringing up the rear was Crane , the young man who had run after the horses . |
| 7 | The Norman Towers — Entering through these it is easy to imagine the Knights of the Middle Ages setting off for battle , banners flying and a host of bowmen and falconers bringing up the rear . |
| 8 | Bringing up the rear . |
| 9 | One by one they climbed in , Delaney first , Nell in the middle , with Andrevitch bringing up the rear . |
| 10 | They were followed by another couple , David and Patricia North , with Frank Sinatra bringing up the rear . |
| 11 | Bringing up the rear of our party I was suddenly startled by a commotion ahead . |
| 12 | Propelled forward by the shrieking aunts , who were bringing up the rear , they stumbled in , falling over the pots and pans and bumping into the dangling kettles , dropping their sacks and shouting and generally making the most satisfactory uproar imaginable . |
| 13 | The Whaddon and Mitchley Scouts and Guides band wound its tuneless way along the High Street , followed by six young girls lethally wielding pom-poms — the Mentle Motors Majorettes — and bringing up the rear , Reg Pybus ' Bedford minibus in which , crammed like sardines , the new team sat invisible behind the heavily steamed up windows . |
| 14 | He led the way , followed by an ebullient Christina and Elaine , with James sullenly bringing up the rear . |
| 15 | Bringing up the rear is the Greenfield , with its slowcoach Trident-based VGA card . |
| 16 | Bringing up the rear , Bishop frowned thoughtfully . |
| 17 | They had travelled no more than a few hundred yards — the Kurd leading , Miss Logan bringing up the rear — and were crossing a patch of rough scree , a descent more tiring than dangerous , when Miss Fergusson fell . |
| 18 | They moved forward , Joseph Ritter bringing up the rear , Hay and Vass either side of Johnson 's bridle , the great man clearly frightened . |
| 19 | On this occasion they were accompanied over the later stages by Pagon and Sellwood , the two British ladies ' K1s , also bringing up the rear of their class . |
| 20 | Bringing up the rear of this small but powerful gathering stood members of the Li Family : cousins and uncles , wives , concubines and close relations , a hundred in all . |
| 21 | Ahead , jamming the traffic into long impatient queues , was a procession consisting of the groom sitting on a white stallion , and clutching in front of him a small boy , an empty marriage rath ( chariot ) , a brass band , twenty rogues carrying portable striplights and , bringing up the rear , a scattering of eunuchs , dancing around , soliciting money and flashing at passers-by . |
| 22 | Bringing up the rear was Sid , but even he was subdued this morning . |
| 23 | He doubted if these boys had been playing soccer — Hurstdown 's sporting young gentlemen would surely scorn such a plebeian game — and , sure enough , the boy bringing up the rear , older and taller than the rest and evidently in charge , was clutching a rugby ball to his chest . |
| 24 | Four men-at-arms rode alongside , and bringing up the rear was another monk herding a flock of sheep and goats . |
| 25 | In compulsory competitive tendering the Government are merely bringing up the rear and ensuring that local authorities that have not yet taken advantage of those techniques are brought up to the level of the best . |
| 26 | Bringing up the rear of the convoy behind the fire tenders were three huge sixteen wheeler trucks driven by Rocky , Chuck , and Red . |
| 27 | The two rigs bringing up the rear , swung round in a complete circle , and reversed to sit side by side some thirty yards from the front door . |
| 28 | Bringing up the rear were Rocky 's three buddies , Chuck , Jube and Red . |
| 29 | as colleagues who are involved will know is just about the only industry in the building materials sector that has n't made some kind of pay offer in this current round it 's very much bringing up the rear and we 're determined to use what industrial strength we have to change the employer 's stance otherwise we 're very concerned that the national negotiation missionary , this will be his death knell since we 'll have to resort to local pay bargaining , so the short answer is E C C er , will be balloted as far as the G M B is concerned union and , er , T & G are balloting in for industrial action to try to change the employers ' position . |
| 30 | The line of boys and masters — Hasan and Rafiq bringing up the rear — made its way through pools of water and patches of sodden black earth , across the cinder track leading up towards the Windmill , and to the chestnut-trees , now almost empty of leaves , that shadow the edge of parkside . |