Example sentences of "[conj] be back [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 With luck Vic and Emily should be gone several hours , giving him ample time to search for evidence and be back at the white house long before they returned .
2 Somehow or other , she must get the cards to Mr Miller and be back to the surgery by two o'clock .
3 It was already nearly six o'clock , and I would n't be able to find a one-hour photo lab open anywhere that evening ; and I had to return to the Sheraton to collect my bag , and be back on the train by seven-thirty or soon after .
4 She thought perhaps that Eve might like to serve the breakfast in the refectory and clear away , and that she should also leave classes ten minutes before lunch and be back in the refectory to serve soup to the other students when they came in .
5 So she went with the architect and he was wanting to show us this kind of and we were like , were cold and were back to the hotel , we did n't even go into the house .
6 and , who work in Risley 's Effluent Plant Projects Office , were quick off the mark in the second race and were back in the boat house long before the second boat , crewed by and , had completed the required four laps .
7 Soon with the sunshine totally predominating I took my leave of this attractive island and was back on the Twin Otter en route for Barra .
8 Newman also left the station , found a cab and was back at the Hessischer Hof inside ten minutes .
9 Very soon he had retraced his steps and was back at the wooden chalet .
10 She drove out for an early lunch at a small diner down the road and was back at the cabin by half past twelve .
11 At the second last she put in a tremendous leap and was back in the lead as Run And Skip started to fade , but Forgive 'N Forget on the stands side and Wayward Lad inside him were now going for home , and they passed Dawn Run on the approach to the last .
12 ‘ Hiss off , ’ Benny muttered , and was back in the truck well within the five minute limit .
13 Here she felt lonely and depressed , as it seemed as if she 'd made no progress and was back in the same vicious circle again .
14 After a fortnight we were told to go down to the airfield for a possible lift into Assam , but often refugees went in the morning but were back in the evening as the planes were so busy taking out wounded soldiers .
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