Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [be] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Darling , I am sorry , I really expect to be back inside the week , and I would n't go if anyone else could .
2 She could n't wait to be back under the lights again with all eyes on her .
3 Ms Tutweiller will be working towards that time because she plans to be back with a vengeance — when Baker challenges President Bill Clinton for the White House in four years ' time .
4 I hope to be back for the first leg with Manchester United .
5 I hope to be back before the end of the week . ’
6 Simon Wright did n't expect to be back from the High Court for at least another week .
7 We seem to be back to the ‘ deprived ’ versus ‘ depraved ’ distinctions which the 1969 Act sought to end .
8 And so we seem to be back to the idea that pragmatics concerns whatever aspects of meaning are not included in semantics .
9 Although he enjoyed ARP work my husband was really fretting to be back with the Navy .
10 It was a slow-going mile , but towards the end one could hear occasional cars along the road ahead and Gareth and Coconut with whoops crashed through the last few yards , again , as the week before , relieved to be back in the space age .
11 Would you not agree that he appears to be back to the form of two years ago ? ’
12 Mrs Bradford had given her the complete day off for her father 's funeral and she did n't have to be back at the house in Newcastle Place until six o'clock .
13 No talk of going out for meals then , everyone rushed off to their respective homes , grateful for the knowledge that they would not have to be back in the Variety Theatre until the ‘ half ’ on the Monday evening .
14 Popes might be — and often were — driven from Rome , but they aspired to be back in the city to which they belonged .
15 Crowther , 59 , hopes to be back for the new series next year , but wo n't be well enough for the show on January 2 .
16 He hopes to be back for the play offs .
17 And Iain Munro , lately of Dundee , who hopes to be back in the game soon , left with his wife and family for Florida and an early annual holiday .
18 They had hoped to be back at the beginning of next season but it now looks unlikely to be until half-way through it .
19 However , right now USL is believed to be back on the road to going public .
20 I let myself unwind at last — how good it feels to be back in the field , especially in this cinnamon-scented corner of the mortal sphere .
21 PFS expects to be back in the black for the full year .
22 The bond which had drawn them so close before Angel 's birth was strong and sometimes Sarah longed to be back for a brief time in that dilapidated house in Stone Alley , free of the sanctimonious atmosphere of the rectory , until she remembered Maggie was n't there any more either .
23 She did n't know where she was and she longed to be back in the cottage where it was safe .
24 By this time he 'd let Josie 's body down and was checking through her pockets , which was a no-hope situation if ever there was one — women almost always carried their stuff around in handbags , and hers had to be back inside the building somewhere .
25 Now he 's hoping to be back on the golf course soon and singing again by the end of the year .
26 Only poor Webb , still in plaster but determined to be back in the side in time for Italy , can feel discouraged by the way he brought it off .
27 The US duo arrived in Spain on a private jet from North Carolina , where they played in the US Tour Championship on Sunday , and both have to be back in the States next Monday .
28 When it was just your Dad and I we , we could go out all evening and then , then come back to the tent , but when we 've got you two we have to be back in the , we ca n't go out in the evenings .
29 By then they need to be back on the winning trail which hopefully will start on Saturday against Moseley .
30 George was in no mood to hang around : he wanted to be back in the safety — illusory though it might be — of the big city with a drink in his hand .
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