Example sentences of "[noun sg] come back [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know how he 's got the neck to come back to these parts . ’ |
| 2 | Erm , he was , on the first and second day , he was second in class and sixty fifth over all and then he was , the next day he was sec still second in class and fifty fifth over all and then once the prop shaft or something 's broken , yeah I 've got a spare one , but the car came back in one bit so erm , he 's got an interview with T V S next week I think or the week after because erm when Rob lent him something that erm , did his , did a lot of it 's nothing to do with erm , they sponsored him two thousand pounds |
| 3 | The archbishop came back under papal orders to avoid giving offence to the king . |
| 4 | bloke coming back in that car . |
| 5 | The sun comes back on that day . |
| 6 | Today , the remembrance of her visit to his home in Wimbledon and its harrowing aftermath came back with startling clarity . |
| 7 | He hesitated and looked as if he was going to abandon the trip , his smile coming back with such speed that Maggie stood too . |
| 8 | I must just run up to the Casa to make sure the lorry comes back for another load . |
| 9 | The heads of governments asked the commission to come back with precise proposals for how this should be done , so that they could act on them at June 's summit in Copenhagen . |
| 10 | ( Three months later , to our mutual delight , The Mortgage Corporation came back for another £100 million . ) |
| 11 | Word came back in two days ' time that Sigarup was getting better . |
| 12 | ‘ That kid came back with painted toenails and was very distressed . ’ |
| 13 | THE DAY the Amateur Championship came back to Royal Portrush after 33 years dawned calm and still after torrential overnight rain . |
| 14 | There was a moment 's pause before his voice came back with added briskness . |
| 15 | On one occasion , I recall someone commenting that so-and-so came back with 235 holes in his airplane . |
| 16 | But his son and his brother came back to this country , early in the seventeenth century , about sixteen five sixteen six . |
| 17 | Then the words rebounded back to my ears and I heard their sound and their meaning , and the pain came back at that moment , too , and it all made sense , the way a policeman 's knock on the door must make sense when you 've committed a crime . |