1.   He slapped my back and said, Maybe so.

2.   And as the vote was being taken on his proposal, he moved about the well of the Senate like a veteran, slapping backs and shaking hands.

3.   And so they are slapping my back and dancing, ecstatic at their harvest.

4.   And the agreement would have been announced at a carefully orchestrated photo opportunity, with Vallone and Giuliani flashing smiles at television cameras, shaking hands and slapping backs.

5.   Backs are slapped, menus go flying, and tables begin to sag under the weight of artery-clogging wonders.

6.   Even on a first meeting, Bowden is likely to slap a back and squeeze an arm.

7.   Fists were pumped, backs were slapped and faces were split with grins.

8.   He loved marching in parades, slapping backs, pumping hands, and hanging out with Irish pols who loved to needle him.

9.   He shut down television stations, engineered his own malleable national assembly and irked the United States when he grinned and slapped backs with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

10.   Instead of slapping the back of a deckhand after a fish is gaffed, they were getting their backs slapped.