Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were now back at the beginning of their conversation , which was not very helpful . |
| 2 | Both Norman Tebbit and John Wakeham were now back after the Grand Hotel blast and the opportunity had been taken to arrange a Cabinet photograph . |
| 3 | They were far back from the bar . |
| 4 | We were immediately back into the ambience of the nursery where , if anything even vaguely indiscreet was in danger of being said , it would instantly be muffled by the warning whisper : ‘ Hush , not in front of the children ’ . |
| 5 | There was skid marks all over and the traffic was right back down the A seventeen , when I got there it |
| 6 | Mr Davies said : ‘ Mrs Morgan was right back against the fence but was struck as this juggernaut continued on its way . ’ |
| 7 | Dougal was halfway back to the car park before it occurred to him that flight was not necessarily the wisest course of action . |
| 8 | Finding myself in the coal bunker at the back of the bungalow I did nothing till the morning of dawning when maximum light was to be utilised for a rather essential cold water wash under an outside tap , and I was soon back on the solid road remarking that the hedgerows ' newborn leaves utter great things . |
| 9 | But Collins was soon back in the thick of the action , fisting clear a McCaffrey free kick and throwing himself across his line to make a fine two handed stop from a Kavanagh volley . |
| 10 | But when she opened her eyes , peering through the holes in her blanket , he was already back in the bedroom , turning on the little bedside light . |
| 11 | He was also back to the daily pile of paperwork and would be closeted with secretaries for much of the day . |
| 12 | She made her way across the factory floor and it was when she was nearly back at the occupational health centre that she heard a whistle . |
| 13 | Corinth could afford to be indifferent to the vengeance Athens took against Samos ; Megara was what mattered to Corinth , and Megara was now back in the Peloponnesian camp . |
| 14 | Seb let himself out through the gate and Carrie was half-way back to the house when his soft call brought her to a halt . |
| 15 | But they had lost ten yards in the manoeuvre , and the Zodiac was almost back into the surf . |
| 16 | By 1979 energy consumption was almost back to the 1973 level but this trend was abruptly curtailed by the second oil shock which contributed to the worst recession in the UK since the Second World War . |