back porch

collocation in English

meaningsofbackandporch

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back
noun[C]
uk
/bæk/us
/bæk/
the inside or outside part of an object, vehicle, building, etc. that is furthest from ...
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porch
noun[C]
uk
/pɔːtʃ/us
/pɔːrtʃ/
mainly UK
a covered structure in front of the entrance to ...
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(Definition ofbackandporchfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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She told me that she sat on herbackporchthe day before with this butterfly as it died.
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Another example concerns a constituent who came to me recently, who wanted to build a small workshop andbackporchon his house.
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Thebackporchis supported by square timber post with curved bracket at the top.
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There you are and look like thebackporchlight, and stare out at 12,000 or 15,000 people.
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Startled, he races to thebackporchand sees the lawnmower running by itself and the naked lawnmower man following it and eating the grass.
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The 2 back wings of the manor house were removed, widening the back balcony, and a back kitchen wing was added off thebackporch.
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It is modulated and synchronized using the colorburst signal and then attached to thebackporchof the color composite video signal.
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They exited onto herbackporchand continued on.
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Abackporchwas added in 1935 to protect the doorways and windows from snow and to provide storage space for furnace wood.
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A one room addition was added to the eastern side about 1890, and a second-story room was built above thebackporchabout 1915.
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Each apartment typically has a front and/orbackporchfor each apartment, and, because the buildings are usually freestanding, windows on all four sides.
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The woman wrote that on three different nights an ape had entered her backyard to take apples left on herbackporch.
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Short duration full carrier (% 100) is the sync pulse and the % 73 is so calledbackporch(black level).
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In 1996, the kitchen was expanded to incorporate thebackporcharea.
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Bathroom facilities were outside, but a bathtub was located on thebackporch.
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The numbers after the width and height are used to determine the front porch, sync pulse, andbackporchtimings.
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The coveredbackporchis supported by a single heavy squared timber post with top bracket matching the posts on the front porch.
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Over the years a new concrete foundation and a roofedbackporchwere added.
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He was found just outside of hisbackporchby his gardener.
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In 1890 the rear facade was altered when a kitchen and pantry wing and a two-storybackporchwas added.
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