Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were back at the A squared , I squared is minus one , so I 've got minus three squared , there 's two give me by I Equals minus thirty nine , now because those two complex numbers are the same are the same , so sixteen is E S squared minus three square , the imaginary grids are also the same , so minus thirty equals two , eight B. |
| 2 | The Fat Controller and I were back inside the bolt when it arrived from the bonded warehouse at Felixstowe . |
| 3 | For the next few hours , I was back on the road , passing flatbed trucks carrying huge , tapering logs like giant carrots with their tips chopped off . |
| 4 | a little more wait and I was back on the bed of the big machine for a few parting shots . |
| 5 | The next day she was gone and the next night I was back on the ramp . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ But then the team suffered a run of injuries and after only a handful of matches I was back on the field . ’ |
| 8 | One chub in the following thirty minutes and I was back on the feeder , four good chub and a few bits followed , no more barbel , and I finished with a total weight of 14lb . |
| 9 | I was back on the A12 heading south for the Smoke by 7 a.m. the next morning , well before the Front Line had stirred — all but Melanie , that is , who had been grumpily evicted from the Transit at 6.30 . |
| 10 | In a few quick strides I was back at the bend , and was just in time to see a movement in the bushes on the lower side of the track . |
| 11 | By the 8th June , I was back in the front line . |
| 12 | Two weeks after my course finished and I was back in the ‘ real world ’ on a murder enquiry , I received notification I had been awarded the second scholarship in the force . |
| 13 | I was back in the post office at Adrar , empty-handed and imagining Joan to have died or to have found another man . |
| 14 | Ten minutes later I was back in the changing-room on my mobile bed wolfing tea and sandwiches , parts of which would eventually find their way into my now polypless colon . |
| 15 | And an hour after that I was back in the club sipping a whisky and soda and pondering what to have for dinner . |
| 16 | Continuing on past the huge oak door I had observed from the outside was another passage leading to a cloakroom , as the euphemism goes , otherwise a loo and wash basin and turning right I was back in the main area . |
| 17 | The next morning I was back in the park . |
| 18 | Then Charlie turned the oxygen valve onto full supply and I was back in the plane again . |
| 19 | Within a month I was back in the garden again catching up on the weeding . |
| 20 | So by November of the year I left Cambridge I was back in the black — being in the West End had enabled me to pay the overdraft off . |
| 21 | After a while I stopped telling myself I was n't going to be sick , and — resigned to the fact that I was going to have to throw up at some point — kept telling myself instead that I 'd manage to hold it in until I was back in the flat , and so do it in private , rather than into the gutter in front of people . |
| 22 | Then the curtains parted , and I was back in the City . |
| 23 | That 's not possible ; I was back in the house by one . ’ |
| 24 | But she was frank and inaccessible as a Modigliani nude ; and I was back in the green glow of the glade — except that this time I too was observed . |
| 25 | Suddenly I was back in the presence of the unpredictable figure I 'd met in the library at Easterness that first night , and as uncertain now as then . |
| 26 | I was back in the dealing room looking vacantly into an empty conduit when Patterson emerged from the end office and escorted a guy to the lobby . |
| 27 | I realised later it was only a brotherly peck on the cheek , but for one black moment I was back in the past … |
| 28 | ‘ In the first innings , I waited for something to happen , and it did I was back in the pavilion for a duck ! |
| 29 | Anyway I was back in the office when I suddenly felt hot and faint … you see I had left him on the island , with three lanes still to cross . |
| 30 | So er da then the next thing I was back in the office so Mike come out would you mind making a drink ? |