Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am back in the little room at the top of the spiral staircase on Wednesday morning and I am sitting on the Squeez-Ee box , with the minute in front of me , going through the remaining contents of the Quaker Oats archive , page by dusty page . |
| 2 | But then I started putting humbuckers in all my guitars and now I 'm back to the single coil thing , but just for playing in my hotel room . |
| 3 | But fuck it ; at least I 'm back in the real world , and with a modicum of control . |
| 4 | The hour winged past and it seemed no time at all before I was back on the top road waiting in the gathering darkness for the Scarborough bus . |
| 5 | By the 8th June , I was back in the front line . |
| 6 | So by November of the year I left Cambridge I was back in the black — being in the West End had enabled me to pay the overdraft off . |
| 7 | Continuing on past the huge oak door I had observed from the outside was another passage leading to a cloakroom , as the euphemism goes , otherwise a loo and wash basin and turning right I was back in the main area . |
| 8 | But she was frank and inaccessible as a Modigliani nude ; and I was back in the green glow of the glade — except that this time I too was observed . |
| 9 | Although you may get ridiculously low because of pressing on too hard , when , a few minutes later , you are back in the good conditions several thousand feet up , you must forget the wasted time and concentrate on flying normally . |
| 10 | When you are back in the main square of the Malá Strana , imagine it encircled with medieval houses set above arcades . |
| 11 | And then you 're back to the three sixty or nought again . |
| 12 | Think of Woody Guthrie and you 're back in the presidential alley once more , for America 's folk hero was named after Woodrow Wilson , the man who took the USA into World War I after attempting to keep his country neutral , a 1916 song claiming ‘ He Kept Us Out The War ’ , though a later ragtime hit contained the lyric : ‘ We 're going to celebrate the end of the war in ragtime — be sure that Woodrow Wilson leads the band . ’ |
| 13 | She has a spell at home and then , sooner or later , she 's back in the Meadhaven Clinic again . |
| 14 | All she knew was that she was back at the closed door with a tray , wondering what Harold and Felicity might be doing on the other side . |
| 15 | She was back in the other chair watching me , a curiously intent look on her face . |
| 16 | She was back in the abandoned warehouse . |
| 17 | She was back in the proper life . |
| 18 | But let smaller pictures of God satisfy us and squeeze him out , and we are back on the easier road to cheap grace and nominal faith . |
| 19 | We are back with the ninth century as a historiographical battleground : " It was the best of times , it was the worst of times … " |
| 20 | He thrust a mess tin full of steak and kidney into my hand , and with a scowl on his face he remarked , ‘ After this lot , Piper , we are back to the usual shit , unless something special turns up , like cooks and normal rations ! ’ |
| 21 | We are back to the three act drama with which we began . |
| 22 | The fact remains that he was murdered on the night after his father 's funeral and if the two are unconnected we are back in the funny coincidences department . |
| 23 | We 've , I do n't know if everyone 's worked the same system , but we 're back on the old appointment system . |
| 24 | We 're back to the normal agenda , item eight on page thirty-six . |
| 25 | Yes we 're back to the inner inner northern routes are n't we ? |
| 26 | And so we 're back to the old problem . ’ |
| 27 | We 're back to the whole problem |
| 28 | We all head off into the bloody storm , and then this whole horror comic gets sorted out when we 're back in the real world . |
| 29 | Having settled Rachel in a corner and piled our luggage round her and left you , Mig , on guard , I struggled back against the refugees and climbed the gangway again to find Tim looking a little bewildered in the midst of a seething mass of humanity but remarkably calm , and soon we were back on the small boat . |
| 30 | We were back in the sultry heat of the valley . |