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

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1 Finally she stepped into her chosen dress , zipping it up at the back with practised ease .
2 Could I just ask you , did those bodices do up at the back with hooks and eyes ?
3 Takeshiba-O made the early pace followed by the two American horses Czar Alexander and Fort Marcy , while Piggott was content to keep Sir Ivor well covered up at the back of the field with La Lagune .
4 Vincent stood up at the back of the room and walked modestly along the wall to the platform .
5 I used to tap dance , high kick , do splits , pull my legs up at the back of my head .
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 As I pull up at the back of the hotel Mr Shah is waiting with a folder full ; his expression , although friendly , contains around his mouth a little reproach that I should have been away from the action for so long .
8 Slorne , who had been up at the back of her cage most of the day as usual , suddenly opened her wings , swung round and dropped down to the front of her cage .
9 ‘ Two men , a green BMW , loading up at the back of the house , please do n't fuck me around , ’ Culley said , ‘ because I 'm becoming angry , and I want to know where they 've gone . ’
10 Oh oh my hair 's standing up at the back of my neck .
11 They were standing in the stern of the vessel looking up at the back of the cabins .
12 Inside the yard there was hooks up at the back of the place and we used to hang this big cloth down so they were warm .
13 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 .
14 They found the brassiere under the bed and Jo let him hook it up at the back for her .
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