in back of

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Keeping quiet and wearing a gray dress shirt, Hamilton hugged four people after the hearing in back of the small courtroom in downtown Seattle, until deputies applied handcuffs and escorted him out the hallway doors.

From Seattle Times

Nothing is remote here; to paraphrase Groucho Marx, if we were any closer, we’d be in back of them.

From Los Angeles Times

“On August 8, 1980, Ruth Neslund shoots her 83-year-old husband, Rolf Neslund, twice in the head after a violent argument over his purloined retirement fund. With the assistance of her older brother, she disposes of the body by chopping it up with a butcher knife and an ax, incinerating the pieces in a burn-barrel and dumping the ashes in a pile of manure in back of their Lopez Island home.”

From Seattle Times

“There is water all around you. You can’t just pump it from the water in front of you, to the water in back of you.”

From Washington Post

Luz Cortez, who works with nonprofit La Casa Norte, started the day canvassing with Salinas before they divided up blocks to separately tackle in Back of the Yards.

From Washington Post