Example sentences of "[pron] come back [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I came back across the square , ’ she said , ‘ and saw the trees swaying , I felt like Moley following Ratty through the Wild Wood , scenting his own little house on the wind . ’ |
| 2 | It was n't until some years later that I came back to the question of the receptors and showed that the most dramatic effects involved the NMDA glutamate receptor I mentioned in the last chapter ( but wo n't discuss further here ) . |
| 3 | It happened like this : last Saturday , after the farewell party at Nanking University , I came back to the hotel , and packed my things ready to leave for Shanghai , then about 10.30 I started to feel sick , and it got worse and worse and went on and on until I had to wake up Comrade Wu at about 3.30 and ask her to get a doctor . |
| 4 | When I came back to the world of RAM and ROM , my subconscious had apparently been connecting up some loose neurons , and everything fell into place . |
| 5 | It was not at all sweet for Alfred Noyes I learned when I came back to the boat , for he had a bucket of slops emptied on his head . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I came back to the Club , did n't I ? |
| 7 | I came back to the flat with one of my regular clients who I had planned to meet . |
| 8 | By the time I came back with the camera it would be almost a beaten track . |
| 9 | I came back into the house soon afterwards , but Emily walked for an hour or two in the rain with her dog , Keeper . |
| 10 | ‘ I went to the toilet and when I came back into the living room , one of them was trying it on with my wife . |
| 11 | I left them together while I went to make some coffee , and when I came back into the room , Shanti was saying , ‘ Patsy , where do I get my big feet from ? |
| 12 | I think it 's time you and I came back into the world . |
| 13 | Yes , if we skip all the intermediate years with , after the war I came back from the army to find we 'd been bombed out and were living in requisition accommodation , after a time , the , we were moved into a new flat over some shops . |
| 14 | When I came back from the bathroom , I looked at my watch . |
| 15 | Oh yes well I mean , I , I , I came back from the war |
| 16 | ‘ When I came back from the war , we still had rationing for a few years . |
| 17 | I felt further away from him than I had ever felt , even when I came back from the hospital . |
| 18 | I came back from the Oval to find that Buffy had blown his brains out because his father had refused to pay his gambling debts . |
| 19 | I had given up a good job to go there and when I came back after the adventure I had looked forward to for so long , I was very disappointed with myself . |
| 20 | And er so when I came back after the War he says er , I object to him starting , he 's not come f direct from conscription , he volunteered for the Army . |
| 21 | I mean , I did n't think so at the time but when I think of it you know , and later when I came back after the war we , oh my God ! |
| 22 | So anyway er I mean being a keen motorcyclist I borrowed a Moto Guzzi last year , you know a big V twin , beautiful bike , I went up into Derbyshire and had a you know ride on it , and thought well that 's not bad , see I 've always had British bikes , and I think I might g I might get one of those , so I came back in the house put the helmet down and said hey that Guzzi 's not bad , I could get a decent one for about two thousand you know about nineteen eighty , you know nice Le Mans Two . |
| 23 | can I come back to the question if , you see if you do n't answer it I 'll repeat it , you as the person responsible for the figures would be anxious to make sure they were reaching the public accurately |
| 24 | Could I come back to the point about the twenty seven million passengers or some of I 'm not exactly , but I know it 's a lot , erm figure , it 's large number figure , as a num an extra number of cars . |
| 25 | Charlie 'd said he wanted to phone Lilian and when I come back over the road he was in a phone box . |
| 26 | I come back to the word ‘ assumption ’ in section 3(1) . |
| 27 | I come back to the Minister on the question of Scottish Development Agency assistance to Stagecoach . |
| 28 | tourism in West Sussex I mean what would happen to that is just one example er on a broader level , the County Council is working with the European regions to promote West Sussex in Europe and what would happen to that , the only conclusion we could draw is that these policies would crumble and to er seriously affect West Sussex and finally I come back to the point that , that I will keep making , if I ever get the opportunity , namely the cost of this exercise . |
| 29 | And so it seems to me that what has got to be proven , and I come back to the point , is that something has changed and we have n't heard anything that has changed er in in that time . |
| 30 | Now that 's something that erm particularly that last point , that audit committees that are established in most efficient companies want to look at and I come back to the point that audit ought to be looked at as something that assists companies in efficiency as well as a mechanism for detecting fraud and yet the government does n't appear to be examining that . |