Which preposition to use with backed

of Occurrences 3278%

I was strangely conscious of something not altogether unfamiliaras though something stirred in the back of my mind.

to Occurrences 643%

I knew that Darrow would hurry as fast as he could back to the valley by way of the upper hills; I knew that he had there several sporting rifles; and I hoped greatly that he and Dr. Schermerhorn might accomplish something before the men had recovered their wits to the point of foreseeing his probable attack.

on Occurrences 329%

He turned his back on Mary and walked away.

against Occurrences 205%

Any Stick Will Do To Beat A Dog Reader, possibly on one of your country walks you have come upon a man with his back against a hedge, tormented by a fiend in the likeness of a dog.

with Occurrences 169%

He turned to me with so beautifully casual an air that I wanted to clap him on the back with the joy of it.

in Occurrences 136%

The stranger, who was a youngster of about their own age, with a pleasant, good-natured-looking face, patted Diggory on the back in a fatherly manner, and addressing the group said, "Well, my boys, we're a large family at Ronleigh, but fresh additions are always welcome.

toward Occurrences 67%

"Here is CÆSAR with his back toward us, fighting the German's hordes.

for Occurrences 59%

I know a preparation that will turn the sauerkraut and sausages, that Oswald eats so much of, into degluted fire and brimstone, warranted to keep him on the broad of his back for ten days or a fortnight.

into Occurrences 52%

I hopped over the wall at the back into the field, and waited there for about a quarter of an hour, and then, as no one came, I made tracks home.

towards Occurrences 46%

I got so used to bein' kicked down stairs, that evry time a man come in the door, I would place my back towards him and sing out: "Kick away, my friend, I'm in the Editorial biziness to-dayto-morrow I go hentsthere's rather too much exsitement runnin' a noosepaper, and I shall resine this evenin.

out Occurrences 45%

"We couldn't back out of it at the last minute, you know; they'd think we were afraid.

from Occurrences 42%

I was as dirty as a collier, my coat was half off my back from my handling on the moor, and there were long rents at the knees of my breeches.

like Occurrences 36%

The yellow of his coat darkened, and there was a whitish-gray streak along his back like that along Kazan's.

at Occurrences 32%

The door was closed and the windows shuttered, but half a dozen negroes came running from the back at the sound of our wheels and took us in out of the storm.

by Occurrences 27%

he asked, holding them behind his back by way of challenge.

through Occurrences 12%

Scowlyou know that scowl of hisit freezes the very sentries on the wall if he looks at their backs through the window!

under Occurrences 9%

"Put it on the floor at the back under the rug," he said.

before Occurrences 9%

The valet backed before the pale and desperate-looking young man, with terrified and wondering glances, and disappeared into his master's apartment, whence the Major put out his head as soon as he had his wig on.

without Occurrences 8%

The little man with the cold blue eyes and the gray-blond hair stroked his back without fear.

as Occurrences 8%

They would push, they would shove, they would "boost," they would arch both their straight backs as pedestals for her tiptoe; and at the same time, by some sweet prodigy of mechanics, she would pull them up and up with her.

between Occurrences 8%

The distance from the tips of the hoofs of the fore-feet, stretched out, to the top of the back between the shoulders, was seven feet and five inches.

across Occurrences 8%

He did not sleep a wink, did not even try, but lay on his back across the bed, hands locked over his hair while "visions of sugar plums danced through his head."

unto Occurrences 7%

"I will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

behind Occurrences 6%

It was a magnificent blow, straight, clean, crisp, with the force of the loins and the back behind it.

up Occurrences 6%

At last she went off, looking behind 'er, to the ship, and then I went outside and put my back up agin the gate and waited.

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