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

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1 The evening light came through the skylights high overhead , glossing the scurfy backs , the sores , the scabby manes , and a soft echo came back from the walls of the vast , bare concrete building of animal content , feeding .
2 Fantasy came back from the horsebreaker with the terrifying habit of standing on her hind legs every time someone got on her back .
3 Later in the year , when the poet Apollinaire came back from the war with a head wound , a grand banquet was held in his honour at the Palais d'Orléans in the Boulevard du Maine .
4 It always feels like an admission of failure to come back from the Continent and have nothing to show for it .
5 It was reported by a bloke down the hill coming back from the pub .
6 2.00 : Video comes back from the repair shop .
7 It is this incredible flexibility that allows us to juggle page layouts in just a few minutes and produce a fresh piece of artwork each time rather than wait hours , even days , for the re-worked page to come back from the artist 's studio .
8 But I can remember my father coming back from the death bed and saying the old man was babbling about a grandson .
9 As word came back from the matches in front it looked as if only Dr. Stephen Bonnard and Buck Finnegan were in serious contention .
10 The man came back from the bank in a van and the other men stopped it at the gate and grabbed the money . ’
11 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 .
12 That day , as we waited for the doctor to come back from the mountains , was one of deep anxiety for the whole family .
13 Salt came back from the morning-room with a self-satisfied air .
14 Cor you 're a long time coming back from the Rose and Crown , do n't forget that 's where we were
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