Example sentences of "[was/were] back [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day things were back to normal . |
| 2 | ‘ Once repairs were completed things were back to normal again . ’ |
| 3 | And Jessica said , I 'll race to the cake and the twins were back to normal . |
| 4 | Ashley were back to winning ways , bowling Prestbury out for 120 and scoring the runs for the loss of two wickets with Steve Tyrell hitting 82no . |
| 5 | Once her feet were back on firm ground she said she had thoroughly enjoyed the trip , which took her over Romsey town centre , the Broadlands Estate and her own home in North Baddesley . |
| 6 | ‘ What would you have done if I 'd gone down ? ’ he asked when we were back on level ground . |
| 7 | Almondsbury were back on level terms two minutes after the break when Storey was allowed to centre , and although Tony Price cleared off the line , it was followed up by another player to hammer in . |
| 8 | I sometimes think that if we were back in biblical days and John the Baptist was running around looking for a wilderness he would n't go to the desert he would come to Creggan ! |
| 9 | It was as if I were back in Roman times . |
| 10 | Three patients who had been receiving specialist care were back in ordinary wards last night after the unit closed . |
| 11 | The Messerschmitts were back in full cry early on 1 May , attacking Hurricanes over the Hal Far area . |
| 12 | With a defective engine , little fuel and no instruments , the pilot decided to land , imagining that he was back over British-held territory . |
| 13 | Chief among these measures had been the control of inflation which was reduced to 3 per cent per month in April but was back into double figures by the end of the year , rising to 20 per cent per month in January 1991 . |
| 14 | Police on the scene predicted that it would be months before the capital 's vital traffic gateway to the north was back to normal . |
| 15 | Her mood was back to normal , although there remained some problems over her finances , and the legal situation was not entirely sorted out . |
| 16 | The following day she felt that everything was going very slowly and by the next day she felt that she was back to normal . |
| 17 | But it was back to normal as she told Woman 's Own about her ‘ sizzling ’ three-months with Blue Peter ‘ hunk ’ John Leslie . |
| 18 | TWENTY-FOUR hours after the Memorial Day celebrations , the Vietnam Veterans ' memorial was back to normal . |
| 19 | But in Edinburgh , where 48 hours of non-stop rain led to sandbags being distributed early on Saturday , a Lothians and Borders police spokesman said everything was back to normal . |
| 20 | Everything was back to normal . |
| 21 | Everything was back to normal again now . |
| 22 | Except that not quite everything was back to normal . |
| 23 | Within a week , she was back to normal but now it 's happened again and I feel anxious to know more about it . |
| 24 | Well it was back to normal . |
| 25 | Teaching at Falconhurst School in Milton Keynes was back to normal this morning . |
| 26 | Four days later the badly capped hock was back to normal and Skipper was sound . |
| 27 | In this year the course was back to full length and the closure of Peppard helped swell the membership , especially of the Artisans . |
| 28 | To her relief , she was back to full fitness in time for the British Stroke-Play at Southerness where a 78 and 77 carved out of near gale-force winds gave her the half-way lead . |
| 29 | IN May 1973 Vic Halom was in the Sunderland football team that won , wonderfully , the FA Cup ; on Tuesday evening he was back at raucous Roker Park , canvassing for votes . |
| 30 | Crewe finished the first half the stronger and were possibly unlucky not to go in with a lead , the Leeds defense was looking fragile ( Fairclough was back at central def. — agghhhh ) , the midfield ( esp . |