Example sentences of "had been back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been back at Ca' del Leone a little over two hours when Maureen phoned . |
| 2 | Jean-Claude had been back to Reine twice during the year , to visit his mother . |
| 3 | He had been serving in France when he met her , they had married as soon as the Hun had been finished off , and after the honeymoon it had been back to the colours for him and straight over to Ireland . |
| 4 | Robert had been back to the gallery , to the annoyance , I felt sure , of the owner . |
| 5 | It was also first time she had been back to Earth since being drafted into Spacefleet , escaping , and running for the stars in a clapped-out old trading ship owned by a clapped-out old trader . |
| 6 | Most of the third-year students had been back for a month already , desperately trying to catch up with their second-year work . |
| 7 | The opportunity to escape from Reine appealed to Jean-Claude , even though he had been back for only a few weeks . |
| 8 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |
| 9 | He had been back from his travels for a while , staying first in London then at Lochgair , while he tried to work out what to do with his life . |
| 10 | In 1825 , by which time he was 52 years of age and had been back in Australia for eleven years , a new Governor was appointed . |
| 11 | Since we had been back in Reine , Jean-Claude had stopped speaking of Montaine 's death as if it haunted him unduly . |
| 12 | It was hard not to think of life as it had been back in 1986 , or in Terry 's and Tom 's case , 1985 . |
| 13 | He added that it had been some years since he had been back in England . |
| 14 | Maybe the flight would be aborted , as it had been back in January . |
| 15 | Ruth was n't even sure how long she had been back in Palma . |