Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] come back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throwing the contact-breaker caused the overhead lights to flare briefly , and a well-aimed thump on the side of the box made them come back up . |
| 2 | Right , and this is this little bit of it , now , made them come back to us and say , well but yes , that 's not enough on its own , or that 's too much on its own , or whatever , or there is no hope , you may as well forget about this because we 've already done the study , or somebody in Japan 's already written off , whatever , but from this point in time , let us , as the sales company , get the information together as it relates to . |
| 3 | He 'd make me sleep with the kids , then he 'd make me come back to bed with him , in and out all night . |
| 4 | He might make me come back to London , and I could n't bear it . |
| 5 | ‘ Let me come back ! ’ |
| 6 | But just let me come back to the the point I want to make , it is it evident to us from what was said yesterday collectively by the District Councils , that they could live with the figure of forty one thousand two hundred , as proposed by the County Council , without a new settlement . |
| 7 | Er let me come back on that issue the er |
| 8 | He went through a brief period of chatting to the customers down at the bank about how he had seen someone come back from the dead . |
| 9 | ‘ I never seen anybody come back for a second dose of the blue , ’ said a man behind her , for all the world as though he were safe reminiscing in some bar of his old age . |
| 10 | Let him come back , oh , please let him come back ! |
| 11 | Let him come back , oh , please let him come back ! |
| 12 | Let him come back later , but she would n't be here : Virgos were quite capable of making plans too ! |
| 13 | ‘ Did you see him come back ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But you did n't see him come back ? ’ |
| 15 | As she heard him come back she refrained from looking out of her window , nor did she go down to the corridor outside his room when , a little later , she heard him groaning as he always did in the grip of a nightmare . |
| 16 | Then I think I heard her come back and go out again about an hour ago . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Not then , because I heard her come back . |
| 18 | He seems to sweep aside rational analysis only to let it come back in at the ideological level , and underplays the processes of getting the ideology established in the face of organizational resistance . |
| 19 | She did n't actually hear him come back into the room ; it was just the feeling of being watched that alerted her to his presence , and she turned her head warily . |
| 20 | ‘ Sorry to be a pest , ’ Travis apologised , ‘ but I saw you come back without Naylor , ’ and while Leith was rapidly trying to find an excuse for her return to the house without the man everyone knew she had gone walking with , she found that Travis was too involved with his own miseries to want to delve into hers , for he went on , ‘ I 've been sitting in the library thinking about Rosemary , and getting more and more uptight about our situation , when you ran in and I started to think about phoning her . |
| 21 | Why did I come back ? |
| 22 | scraped it all in and I said I 'll leave it in dish cos it 's a dog doggy dish went back in house and , oh what did I come back for ? |
| 23 | Why did ye come back ? ’ |
| 24 | People always ask , ‘ Why did you come back ? ’ when someone has been living abroad . |
| 25 | ‘ Did you come back from the villa specially for me ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You had been meticulous , why did you come back today ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Why did you come back ? ’ went on Eleanor , her green gaze bright with dislike as it fixed on Jessamy . |
| 28 | ‘ Why did you come back ? |
| 29 | Ye a an after you 'd done that did you remain at the exit door or did you come back into the ? |
| 30 | ‘ So why did you come back ? ’ she asked . |