The coat is lined with fur.

When the accountant was arrested, rumour had it that it was for his creative bookkeeping.

There was some monkey business going on when they were negotiating that last contract; money passed under the table.

I didn't know hummingbirds could even fly upside down when frightened.

Every evening after school we met in his back garden and arranged Indian battles.

Mrs Tanaka's characteristic curly hair was sticking up behind her ear.

He sneaked around to the back door.

He sneaked around to the back door.

The refugees were living in a narrow, squalid backstreet.

If you engage in espionage for a foreign power, you are selling your country down the river.

Using the rudder and the jib with the wind behind it we backed up, turning the bow to the direction we wanted to go.

The traitor betrayed his country to the enemy.

I had imagined that the newbies fresh from university would probably be stuck with all the backstage work - collecting reference material, getting copies and such but I couldn't have been proved more wrong.

I'd like a room in the back.

She boiled over with rage at his betrayal.