Example sentences of "[noun pl] came back [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clapping their wings the gulls came back from the sea , |
| 2 | The goal though , was against the run of play and sure enough , Rovers came back at the start of the second half with an equaliser from Kenny Irons . |
| 3 | The keys came back through the post , without even a thank-you note . |
| 4 | The visitors came back into the game with two penalty goals by Graves and could have turned ends 9–9 had he been successful with his third penalty goal on half-time . |
| 5 | The Dili watchers came back to the Company headquarters to find the 2/2 was now linked to Brigadier Veale 's 200 survivors of Sparrow Force with a base at Mape , in the hills ( see map p. 77 ) . |
| 6 | The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money . |
| 7 | Tim climbed down the tree just as Pegs came back into the garden . |
| 8 | Leni came back with the coffee and poured it into two non-matching teacups . |
| 9 | The men came back across the courtyard . |
| 10 | It was already in her hand before he spoke , and by the time the men came back with the table and pillows they were running in normal saline through a line in his hand . |
| 11 | One of the top ANC men came back from the Dar Es Salaam talks and told us , ‘ I am more than ever convinced that violence is not the way . |
| 12 | The girls were less politically conscious than the boys , although the staff would notice a more defensive attitude when the pupils came back from the townships after the holidays . |
| 13 | But as Haslemere relaxed the Otters came back into the game , equalised and went ahead from well-struck short corners . |