Example sentences of "[noun sg] was back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The glitter of mockery was back with a vengeance , with a darker glint of what could have been anger in his eyes carefully screened by a rakish smile . |
| 2 | However , things recovered somewhat and in 1970 the Club was back into a sound bar profit . |
| 3 | The bandwagon of economic optimism was back on the road . |
| 4 | When she got there , she remembered that the little gold key was back on the glass table . |
| 5 | Only five weeks after having a baby , Sukey 's figure was back to an enviable slimness . |
| 6 | Saulieu was back on the map . |
| 7 | Farrar was back with the rest , holding a handkerchief to his eye . |
| 8 | That famous stain was back on the front steps . |
| 9 | But then Jimmy Magilton fired the United midfield machine and the match was back in the boiler when John Durnin scored a brilliant equaliser . |
| 10 | So Saturday evening was back to the papers and then back home , usually about seven , mostly walking because you could n't afford the penny for the tram , no ha'penny fares , just a penny , w . |
| 11 | He told shareholders he would forego his salary until the Barratt group was back in the black . |
| 12 | In May the DHAC was back at the Guildhall , where Matt O'Leary told the corporation that its members ‘ filled him with nauseation ’ . |
| 13 | Eight days after leaving , the new convoy was back at the desert rendezvous , much to the relief of those who had been chosen to stay behind . |
| 14 | Sadly the whole evening tends to confirm just how single-handed Callas ' achievement was back in the Fifties . |
| 15 | Sadly the whole evening tends to confirm just how single-handed Callas ' achievement was back in the Fifties . |
| 16 | They again reached , but did not capture , Vienna under Mehemet IV , in 1683 , but by 1791 the border was back to the Sava-Danube line . |
| 17 | First past the post was the Cotswold Press whose sample was back on the doormat on the 16th . |
| 18 | And the big grin was back with a vengeance . |
| 19 | Absolutely , I would think they 're the three heroes erm Les Phillips in midfield was back to the Les Phillips we knew when he first came to Oxford from Birmingham when we were in the first division . |
| 20 | It did not seem to people that , to use de Gaulle 's expression , " the train was back on the tracks " . |
| 21 | The old bitterness was back with a vengeance and she kept her face averted . |
| 22 | Her other suitcase was back at the hotel in Mariánské Láznë . |
| 23 | Once away from the railhead , however , the army was back in the age of Napoleon and moved at the pace of horse and man . |
| 24 | Stieber was back on the line in five minutes . |
| 25 | Rohmer was back in the present again . |
| 26 | Growth was back at a remarkable six per cent in 1968 , inflation remained low and the budget was in healthy surplus by 1969 . |
| 27 | Celia was back from the opera . |
| 28 | The next time I went slowly past their table , refill coffee pot at the ready , the conversation was back to the journey , with Xanthe this time saying she basically thought horseracing boring and she would n't have come on this trip if her father had n't made her . |
| 29 | 6° Gruppo was back over the island on 24th. , this time seven MC200s escorting He111 s of II/KG 26 . |
| 30 | The defensiveness was back with a vengeance , but there seemed no way she could control it . |