Example sentences of "[verb] come back [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The two understudies were asked to come back on the Friday afternoon , when there was going to be a complete run of the play for the producers and Malcolm Harris . |
| 32 | I keep coming back to the idea that everything can have some significance attached to it . |
| 33 | Always keep coming back to the point from which you start , and try to select other roads to follow . |
| 34 | The first type is that of new general orientations of a very wide sort , basic themes that keep coming back across the documents and hence can be said to characterize the Council 's mind and achievement as a whole . |
| 35 | Like rejected lovers returning to a trysting place , they kept coming back to the areas surrounding the station . |
| 36 | These additions to a basic service may persuade customers to sign up with a particular factor , but the reason why they stay comes back to the quality of the service provided . |
| 37 | Even the one who has betrayed the light sooner or later is forced to come back to the centre of stability , where he is raised once more into the understanding of clarity and purity of thought and action . |
| 38 | She remembered coming back into the office after spending the morning talking to a woman who had started her own cosmetics business in her kitchen , and the pink message slip on her desk , saying that Matthew Prescott had called her . |
| 39 | We are determined to come back in the spring showing the country that we have some really talented and fighting cricketers in England . |
| 40 | So he placed an order with him for all these , and he had to come back to the factory , reorganize the factory , to meet this terrific order he 'd got for pencils , you see . |
| 41 | It is interesting , is n't it , that er I knew the road to Damascus was long , but I did n't realise it were that long cos on the second of July the Tories moved an amendment at P and R criticising us for spending money on the Lord Mayor 's car , but I 'm glad to see that you 've come back to the fold . |
| 42 | The problem pupils who 've come back from the brink . |
| 43 | Toby had come back for the moment . |
| 44 | She had come back to the nursery ready to sympathize with Nannie about the underarm cramp caused by her inside . |
| 45 | After wartime service in the RAF he had come back to the School , and with his friends Mr. Norris and Mr. Hardie had helped to introduce Rugby to the School . |
| 46 | He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them . |
| 47 | It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field . |
| 48 | The woman had come back to the farm 's archway from where she and two men stared nervously up the road towards Frasnes . |
| 49 | But they had finished with Elise 's death , and now Merrill had come back to the Midlands city where she and Elise had grown up before they went their separate ways . |
| 50 | He did not believe that Rose , if she had come back into the flat , would have let the cat out , or left it unfed . |
| 51 | Sam Somerville had come back into the room , shouting at the bugs : ‘ He 's gone . |
| 52 | Sandra had come back into the room , and somehow she was at Matthew 's side , holding his hand and weeping . |
| 53 | They had come back across the river and they were in a street close to the Embassy . |
| 54 | The three of them had come back down the tunnel to the entrance , with the man pushing Nona in front of him as a hostage . |
| 55 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 56 | So get in the old shed and then we got a load of swedes , we put it in rack and we come out like chips , chips of raw swede , and then sugar beet pulp , which had come back from the factory . |
| 57 | Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty . |
| 58 | On Friday night , Tina phoned just after Jack had come back from the supermarket with the weekend shopping . |
| 59 | He had that look he used to get on Saturday mornings after he had come back from the shops . |
| 60 | he had come back from the meeting with Patrick , and he had opened a bottle of whisky … automatically his had reached for it , found it between his legs , and he was raising it to his lips when the hurried knocking shook the door again . |