Example sentences of "[noun sg] came back [prep] 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 | By the Canal Turn he was second , and he kept up his gallop as the field came back towards the stands , taking up the running with three fences to go . |
| 3 | After half an hour I was still waiting , so I gave him an experimental pull and the hook came back minus the barbel . |
| 4 | Mum came back with the chopper and Dad brandished a heavy lump of wood . |
| 5 | Her moment came at the end of the first course when , without any apparent signal , the parlourmaid came back into the room . |
| 6 | When the girl came back into the cabin she was shaking . |
| 7 | Fantasy came back from the horsebreaker with the terrifying habit of standing on her hind legs every time someone got on her back . |
| 8 | The controller came back with the Porto weather : ‘ 1 CB at 2000 . |
| 9 | But then the judge came back into the courtroom , and everybody stopped talking . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Daisy hung about until Drew and the team came back to the Land-Rover . |
| 12 | Jonadab confirmed that the shepherd was not one for strong drink and was beginning to think that George had possibly made a good choice , when the old farmer and his wife came back along the line . |
| 13 | The landlord came back into the room just then , interrupting his gloomy thoughts . |
| 14 | But then the Cat 's head slowly began to vanish , and when the executioner came back with the Duchess , there was nothing there . |
| 15 | ‘ My father came back with the cross ; his friend , Major Hope , paid for my mother 's treatment . |
| 16 | As word came back from the matches in front it looked as if only Dr. Stephen Bonnard and Buck Finnegan were in serious contention . |
| 17 | The man came back to the telephone and said that if I was Linford Christie I was to go in and see them . |
| 18 | The man came back from the bank in a van and the other men stopped it at the gate and grabbed the money . ’ |
| 19 | At dusk Śa kar came back with the cows . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Mercy Newbegin came back into the room and closed the sliding door . |
| 23 | The young widow came back to the ballroom to make one last request . |
| 24 | His Dad came back into the kitchen . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Presently the nurse came back with the paper . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Suddenly the taverner came back to the table . |
| 29 | I was n't with her all that long before the mother came back in the car . |
| 30 | 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 . |