Example sentences of "he [be] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's back at the main menu , he 's calling up the directory , the very List of Lists , the brain surgeon 's own encephalogram . |
| 2 | He was diverted during coffee by a thumb nail sketch of that fruitless expedition , but by the time the sommelier had visited the table with Cognac a second time , he was back to the great danger of ennui in the BEF , and 2nd Grenadiers ’ seven months in France spent cultivating a defensive mentality which could well be disastrous if hostilities ever broke out . |
| 3 | Now he was back at the sharp end . |
| 4 | He was back at the open unit on 9 June 1991 , but the following day he absconded again and this time was absent for 94 days . |
| 5 | Or had he recently passed through a time warp and thought he was back in the 70s ? |
| 6 | Just an hour later he was back in the same court to give evidence against three men accused of trying to murder him . |
| 7 | A forty-year madness , he had called it , one which had laid waste the best years of her young life ; yet he was back in the thick of his obsession now , and so elated by his own recent progress that he lacked the time to ask about her own . |