Example sentences of "[was/were] back on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having settled Rachel in a corner and piled our luggage round her and left you , Mig , on guard , I struggled back against the refugees and climbed the gangway again to find Tim looking a little bewildered in the midst of a seething mass of humanity but remarkably calm , and soon we were back on the small boat . |
| 2 | They were back on the broad but darkened thoroughfare of Holborn . |
| 3 | He would come exuberantly into the office after ops with his crew tagging along behind him , to tell us that our weather forecast had been spot on , it had all been a piece of cake , bombs went down — Wham ! — right on the target , no trouble at all , good show ! , and here they were back on the old tarmac , cheating death again , etc . |
| 4 | in the fifties the team won the marathon race five times … they were back on the winning trail in 88 and again in 90 … |
| 5 | But , undaunted , FitzGerald was back on the right track again last Saturday sending Trainglot out to easily win the £20,000 Tote Jackpot Hurdle at Sandown Park to add to the remarkable haul so far this year . |
| 6 | That famous stain was back on the front steps . |
| 7 | After 1945 productivity growth soared to as much as 4% a year , but by the mid-1970s it was back on the historical , 2% , trendline . |
| 8 | The third race , for the Campkin Cup , was back on the open sea in light conditions . |
| 9 | 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 . |