Example sentences of "[was/were] back [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she went with the architect and he was wanting to show us this kind of and we were like , were cold and were back to the hotel , we did n't even go into the house . |
| 2 | Since 1984 the relative incomes of workers in the non-productive sector have been allowed to recover ; and by 1987 they were back to the position which they occupied in 1979 . |
| 3 | I did n't want the person standing up because then you were back to the body shape , so he had to be sitting down . |
| 4 | Watford though were a tough bunch … they were n't going to lie down and die and sure enough they were back with an equaliser from Ken Charlery … |
| 5 | Watford though were a tough bunch … they were n't going to lie down and die and sure enough they were back with an equaliser from Ken Charlery … |
| 6 | The Greeks did very little during the winter because of bad weather but each spring they were back on the water , checking that everything was nautika or boatworthy . |
| 7 | His eyes were back on the road and he did not see Madeleine 's mouth turn down in a pout . |
| 8 | He glanced across to her , then his eyes were back on the road . |
| 9 | You got a few months and then you were paid off you were back on the dole . |
| 10 | The shoes were back on the desk top . |
| 11 | Once they were back on the train there was yet more waving of handkerchiefs from pin-hatted ladies who would remain spinsters for the rest of their lives . |
| 12 | They were amber as she swung the car round to the right and through them , heading down a side street , taking another right then another until they were back on the street where they 'd started . |
| 13 | 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. |
| 14 | By Monday evening the Wycliffes were back at The Watch House , their home outside the city where he had his headquarters , and on Tuesday morning he was in his office . |
| 15 | When the Oxford players ran on the pitch , they must have felt they were back at the Manor so warm was the welcome . |
| 16 | Maxim said nothing more until they were back at the inn . |
| 17 | Three weeks went by and we were back at the vet 's surgery . |
| 18 | As soon as they were back at the auberge , Iris vanished into their minuscule en suite bathroom . |
| 19 | I knew where we were now — we were back at the Avon Gorge . |
| 20 | We were back at the university , sitting on the bench as if nothing had happened . |
| 21 | The colleges were back at the end of September , holidays had ended , the metropolis was beginning to settle down for the winter . |
| 22 | Two hours later we were back at the Aiguille du Midi . |
| 23 | The next day , the loyal supporters , still holding aloft their banners and placards , were back outside the court in Kirkwall . |
| 24 | She felt as if she were back in a milieu which she understood , that she had an indefinable rapport with this tall , shaggy , rather solitary figure , dressed in jeans and an open-necked shirt and , as she had just observed , running-shoes . |
| 25 | A shiver went through him and he began to wish he were back in the bar . |
| 26 | It did n't last long because we were back in the boardroom by now , and he quickly got another glass of champagne into his clutches . |
| 27 | Once the funeral was over and they were back in the parlour of the cosy farmhouse , the atmosphere lightened and Victoria was passed from group to group , chattering like an enchanting little doll . |
| 28 | At last we were back in the mountains . |
| 29 | I know for a fact that these nets were back in the river , in the hands of poachers , a very short time after they have been captured by the commission . ’ |
| 30 | They rode through the stink of pyres where local men were burning the bodies of the beasts killed the night before , and then the land dipped and they were back in the Dales proper with the hills behind them and some of the chill wind cut off . |