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

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31 precisely Mr Chairman if I could answer that the , the , the once the inspector comes back to the Fire Service and reports again and he is due back in June , we will then look at the matters he raises at that time and he will look at the progress report er what , what has happened since his last inspection and then we will have the opportunity to look at what the Inspector has , has to say after his visits , not very far away er , their Chief Officer will go on with this programme
32 As word came back from the matches in front it looked as if only Dr. Stephen Bonnard and Buck Finnegan were in serious contention .
33 The man came back to the telephone and said that if I was Linford Christie I was to go in and see them .
34 The man came back from the bank in a van and the other men stopped it at the gate and grabbed the money . ’
35 The metabolic products of the activity at the growth cone come back down the axon by retrograde transport and home in on lysosomes in the cell body , or in some cases are processed by proteases in the cytosol .
36 Then Boy cut to a black and white film in which a good man comes back from the war in uniform and finds his wife hostessing a party in black satin with orchids , and he throws out her gin-drinking friends , and she says to them , laughing but then not laughing at all , my husband would like to be alone with me .
37 Is that similarly true for horse racing , or does more money come back to the punter ?
38 That day , as we waited for the doctor to come back from the mountains , was one of deep anxiety for the whole family .
39 At dusk Śa kar came back with the cows .
40 She lay rigid and wide-eyed once he 'd gone , afraid to sleep in case the nightmare returned , then to her relief Penry came back into the room .
41 Naturally the wounded had to be got away first , but later that day a plane came back over the mountains , and we were lined up again , and told that we could take only a small amount of personal possessions .
42 Mr Chairman what 's the erm chance of the Petticoat restaurant coming back under the playhouse umbrella .
43 And er as I 've said before , I have n't seen a a barrel of oil burning and the heat and smoke that comes off that you consider the amount of oil that would have been in the separators on the platform at the time , I think it would have still have caused an awful lot of heat and an awful lot of smoke and fire , and er just shutting off the oil coming back to the platform maybe would n't have helped that much .
44 As the linker needle comes back towards the knitter , the stitch is in the hook of the linker needle and comes off the machine needle .
45 The reservation form comes back across the counter .
46 Mercy Newbegin came back into the room and closed the sliding door .
47 The young widow came back to the ballroom to make one last request .
48 His Dad came back into the kitchen .
49 Robins became senior staff nurse , the other staff nurses moved up one , and the senior student nurse in the A.R.R. Unit came back into the Hall as an acting staff nurse .
50 Presently the nurse came back with the paper .
51 We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side .
52 Godard has revealingly said that cinema is dependent on capitalism in two senses : first in the making of the film and second that ‘ in film the money comes back in the image ’ ( MacCabe 1980 , p. 27 ) .
53 The shelter was quite a long way away , and there would n't be time to come back to the steps .
54 There are certain associates , who 're not going to use a rate book , there 's associates who er , because you 're doing a two appointment sale , will always have time to come back to the office and get a computer quote and go back with the right answer .
55 Skipper Chris Dickson feathered the mainsail up the first weather leg so that navigator Erle could jury rig a new mainsheet arrangement before the load came back on the boom as the boat bore away around the first mark .
56 Suddenly the taverner came back to the table .
57 I was n't with her all that long before the mother came back in the car .
58 It transformed the way that the English dealt with the world outside Europe ; even though Charles 's son came back to the throne as Charles II in 1660 , the Republic changed the direction of English imperial policy and set a pattern followed at least until the death in 1714 of the last direct descendant of Charles I to sit on the throne .
59 In the first week of good weather , over half the acting members of the Miracle Pageant came back to the plague village , just to see how their old friend Lucier was faring .
60 Salt came back from the morning-room with a self-satisfied air .
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