Sentence examples for pillion of from inspiring English sources

I spent a lovely few days at Tirtaganga in Bali, where meals and entertainment were shared with a young Canadian, two Japanese and three of the local Balinese lads, who acted as guides and arranged transport (usually the pillion of a motorbike).

33 (47%) girls and 90 (63.8%) boys had ridden as pillion, of which only 5 boys and no girls wore a helmet.

"In antique sarcophagi the nereids who balance on the tails of tritons must have been studied from nature for they are in exactly the pose adopted by their modern daughters in Italy who occupy an equally precarious seat on the pillions of motor scooters".

Unidentified men gunned her down at the start of her morning commute, which she did without bodyguards or any other protection, riding pillion on the back of her son-in-law's motorbike.

Of all RTI, 70%% is contributed by the motorcycle crash, and there are a significant number of deaths for both rider and pillion rider of the motorcycle than for other types of vehicles.

There is a significant number of deaths combined from both rider and pillion rider of motorcycles than from any other type of vehicles.

We drive on, all afternoon, past yellow fields of mustard and meandering cows with festive painted horns and henna tattoos of the moon and stars (it's the week after Diwali), and toddlers riding pillion on the petrol tanks of motorbikes overtaking bangled women in lime, saffron and scarlet carrying silver churns of water on their heads, or their own weight in firewood.

For the benefit of scholars delving into her oeuvre she notes helpfully that "Cupid Rides Pillion", one of her 723 novels, is also known as "Dangerous Love".

Hector's fondling of his students, who take turns riding pillion on his motorcycle, is depicted in the same spirit of comic tolerance with which Bennett famously parried an inquiry into his own sexuality: "To enquire if I was homosexual was like asking someone who had just crawled across the Sahara Desert whether they preferred Malvern or Perrier water," he said.

It can be expressed in riding pillion on a motorbike through the streets of Paris to persuade Eric Cantona to remain at Old Trafford.

The public prosecutor says he shot the robber in the back as he was riding away on the pillion seat of a motorcycle.