Example sentences of "i [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 . |