Example sentences of "[conj] come back [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , there is an attempt to set up a message desk , where if your phone , at the moment , switchboard will put calls through to you , if you do n't answer by a certain number of rings , it will either divert to another number or come back to the switchboard .
2 He would linger on those delivery trips and stay for dinner or tea or come back via the Talbot , the pub across the road , although he was under age .
3 It started in the 38th minute with a straightforward close range blast after Wright destroyed the Ipswich defence and curled an audacious chip-shot that came back from the underside of the bar .
4 So my the , in my mind the best way forward is for this council to promote the right to buy and I fully support this motion and I would urge members of this council to ignore the report that comes back from the housing committee .
5 About a week later , I finished work early one day and came back to the house .
6 Stephen had a meeting with the shop steward the following morning at 8.30 , and came back to the house afterwards shouting to Victor the butler for strong black coffee .
7 Then he lost his nerve and rushed out of the flat and came back to the house to find me . ’
8 Suddenly , to her relief , the telephone rang , Joanna picked it up , wrote down the message , and came back to the table , looking elated .
9 She headed away into tall grass , hid the baby and came back to the boat for the return trip to Tiger Haven .
10 ‘ One spring I left my noviciate and came back to the farm .
11 Sykes went to Paris a couple of days before you did , and came back on the Monday .
12 Down she went and came back with the cups of tea and slices of cake on a tray .
13 Garry answered it and came back into the kitchen with two policemen .
14 The old woman said something and Simon turned and came back into the room and stood by the deerskin pallet on which Hugh was lying .
15 The other people heard the noise of the shot and came back into the room .
16 Marcus put the thing down without doing any speaking and came back into the room .
17 As David caught sight of her he left the other two and came back into the foyer .
18 ‘ Of course , ’ he said calmly and came back across the room .
19 Her mother of course was aware that fifteen does not relish the solitude that fifty does , and came back from the village one day when Peony had been particularly silent and lumpish , with the news that Mrs Price who kept an antique shop had her grandchildren staying with her , and she was invited to go round and play tennis with them and have tea .
20 Erm , I have I think cousin , erm , who was in the Air Force during the war , and came back from the Air Force with a child .
21 Goshawk Squadron flew all that day , and came back from the patrols badly mauled .
22 ‘ You went out and came back by the yard door ? ’
23 and we 're , we 're going on the Friday afternoon and coming back on the Monday afternoon .
24 And then coming down from a point on King Street just to the left of the existing tree , if you can imagine that , and coming back across the marketplace
25 And coming back from the sea , laden with fish for their young , they can only find safety in their nest holes .
26 She was out every evening , sometimes staying away all night and coming back in the afternoon only to tart herself up for the next evening away .
27 Listen , have you got to stay on at the track , or is it possible for you to leave and come back to the hotel ? ’
28 Loreto did try and come back into the game , but they relied on the breakaway too much with Barnwell and O'Neill always on their own , and lacking the support necessary to cause problems for Portadown .
29 And come back to the Vicarage and have tea with me .
30 However , it got so bad one day — I think he had been discussing this with his father because he used to go home sometimes at the weekends and come back to the flat on Monday — and he came in one day and said , ‘ OK , it 's going to be cabaret ’ .
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