Example sentences of "was [v-ing] at [art] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started to look around and I put my hand up and it was lying at the back of my collar |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I was sitting at the back of the 17th green at the Scottish Open this year watching the action . |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | On Friday Madge Grimsilk was sitting at the back of the stalls again . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | One of the young men , also with a machine gun , was standing at the back of the plane . |
| 12 | Here he caught sight of Aziz the janitor , who was standing at the back of the hall with his mop and bucket . |
| 13 | Something was gnawing at the back of his mind . |