Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] back [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were back at the A squared , I squared is minus one , so I 've got minus three squared , there 's two give me by I Equals minus thirty nine , now because those two complex numbers are the same are the same , so sixteen is E S squared minus three square , the imaginary grids are also the same , so minus thirty equals two , eight B. |
| 2 | The Fat Controller and I were back inside the bolt when it arrived from the bonded warehouse at Felixstowe . |
| 3 | The next day she was gone and the next night I was back on the ramp . |
| 4 | a little more wait and I was back on the bed of the big machine for a few parting shots . |
| 5 | ‘ But then the team suffered a run of injuries and after only a handful of matches I was back on the field . ’ |
| 6 | For the next few hours , I was back on the road , passing flatbed trucks carrying huge , tapering logs like giant carrots with their tips chopped off . |
| 7 | One chub in the following thirty minutes and I was back on the feeder , four good chub and a few bits followed , no more barbel , and I finished with a total weight of 14lb . |
| 8 | In a few quick strides I was back at the bend , and was just in time to see a movement in the bushes on the lower side of the track . |
| 9 | ‘ In the first innings , I waited for something to happen , and it did I was back in the pavilion for a duck ! |
| 10 | Suddenly I was back in the presence of the unpredictable figure I 'd met in the library at Easterness that first night , and as uncertain now as then . |
| 11 | I realised later it was only a brotherly peck on the cheek , but for one black moment I was back in the past … |
| 12 | The next morning I was back in the park . |
| 13 | That 's not possible ; I was back in the house by one . ’ |
| 14 | And an hour after that I was back in the club sipping a whisky and soda and pondering what to have for dinner . |
| 15 | Ten minutes later I was back in the changing-room on my mobile bed wolfing tea and sandwiches , parts of which would eventually find their way into my now polypless colon . |
| 16 | Then Charlie turned the oxygen valve onto full supply and I was back in the plane again . |
| 17 | Then the curtains parted , and I was back in the City . |
| 18 | I was back in the post office at Adrar , empty-handed and imagining Joan to have died or to have found another man . |
| 19 | After a while I stopped telling myself I was n't going to be sick , and — resigned to the fact that I was going to have to throw up at some point — kept telling myself instead that I 'd manage to hold it in until I was back in the flat , and so do it in private , rather than into the gutter in front of people . |
| 20 | Anyway I was back in the office when I suddenly felt hot and faint … you see I had left him on the island , with three lanes still to cross . |
| 21 | So er da then the next thing I was back in the office so Mike come out would you mind making a drink ? |
| 22 | I was back in the dealing room looking vacantly into an empty conduit when Patterson emerged from the end office and escorted a guy to the lobby . |
| 23 | Within a month I was back in the garden again catching up on the weeding . |
| 24 | She felt as if she were back in a milieu which she understood , that she had an indefinable rapport with this tall , shaggy , rather solitary figure , dressed in jeans and an open-necked shirt and , as she had just observed , running-shoes . |
| 25 | I did n't want the person standing up because then you were back to the body shape , so he had to be sitting down . |
| 26 | You got a few months and then you were paid off you were back on the dole . |
| 27 | If you did n't look up too much , and avoided the fourth side with its terribly huge views across the countryside , you could almost believe you were back in the Store . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll say you were in a temper , and it had n't changed any when you were back in the office . |
| 29 | She was back at the hotel by 7.45 . |
| 30 | She was back at the curtains again . |