Example sentences of "was back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was back across the Channel that evening and in Aix , after his habitual tour , on Tuesday 18 August . |
| 2 | Once we were fed and watered it was back onto the dance floor to practise what we had learnt and add , would you believe , a small jump to our repertoire . |
| 3 | 6° Gruppo was back over the island on 24th. , this time seven MC200s escorting He111 s of II/KG 26 . |
| 4 | After that it was back into the ‘ chocolate box ’ scenery of western Norway , the fabulous fiords and magnificent mountains , which are marvellous to look at and to photograph , but which I find a bit aloof and unattainable . |
| 5 | Well , he was back into the gear and started dealing , so there was always plenty around and I got back into it as well . |
| 6 | So it was back to the hooks in the faith that something must turn up . |
| 7 | The mortaring continued for about ten minutes , then it was back to the orchard and comparative safety of the slit trench . |
| 8 | He was diverted during coffee by a thumb nail sketch of that fruitless expedition , but by the time the sommelier had visited the table with Cognac a second time , he was back to the great danger of ennui in the BEF , and 2nd Grenadiers ’ seven months in France spent cultivating a defensive mentality which could well be disastrous if hostilities ever broke out . |
| 9 | In the main , it was back to the ‘ ordinary ’ theme . |
| 10 | The loch ends at Aberchalder and it was back to the canal for the last haul to Fort Augustus and Loch Ness . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was back to the ‘ miserable refuge ’ of the Lords Act of 1759 with its ‘ great error ’ in giving all to one creditor , which induced many prisoners to stay and waste their property in prisons rather than by complying with the Act , obtain their discharge and be sent back to prison by other creditors . |
| 13 | So it was back to the drawing board , undo the back and reknit it . |
| 14 | On a typical evening , and sometimes in the small hours , it was back to the Caxton House HQ in London for strategy meetings . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was back to the 2nd XI after that , but the memory will tingle for a while yet . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If text needed to be re-set for any reason it was back to the typesetter again . |
| 19 | Then it was back to the hall for afternoon Sunday School , and a public praise meeting . |
| 20 | It was back to the books to find out what to expect . |
| 21 | Monday dawned , as Mondays will , and it was back to the Soho Laundry . |
| 22 | It was back to the Reading Room to pick up our briefcases , and farewell ( for now ) to the N.R.M. |
| 23 | Collecting my thoughts I baited up with a fresh squid and cast back out to the same spot , bobbin on the needle and it was back to the bedchair . |
| 24 | It was back to the same old theme . |
| 25 | After just half an hour in the pool , it was back to the troubled waters of the Foreign Office . |
| 26 | But , 24 hours later , he was back to the player who before this Test had made just 333 from 19 innings at an average of 17.53 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Saulieu was back on the map . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Even bear raid victim Amber Day was back on the move , up 5 at 73p by the close . |