Example sentences of "he [be] back [subord] " in BNC.

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1 You perhaps do not realize how long and desperately people have fought to keep Winston Spencer Churchill in the wilderness , and how furiously angry many of them are that he is back where he belongs .
2 More importantly , as his anecdote about the fortune that came and went suggests , he 's back where he belongs , back in the game .
3 Within a couple of weeks , his killer instincts had disappeared and he was back where he belonged — twitching away peacefully on the fireside rug .
4 Instead of wrestling with the imponderables of land and trees and drainage and crops , he was back where his skills gave him a harsh certainty .
5 He was back where he 'd started , staring at the wall with nothing to do but wait .
6 He was back where he had started .
7 But in 1132 he was back as chancellor , though he never aspired to the influence of his earlier days , and the more sober ecclesiastics of the court , in alliance with the papacy , managed to keep him out of a bishopric .
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