Example sentences of "[vb past] come back [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three of the men agreed to come back to the captain , and we put the others in my cave . |
| 2 | People began to come back into the block . |
| 3 | He began to come back down the tunnel towards her . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , the pressure on me has increased since Stuart decided to come back on the England scene , but this is not the first time he has squeezed the position and I accept that challenge from a top-class player . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , the pressure on me has increased since Stuart decided to come back on the England scene but this is not the first time he has squeezed the position and I accept that challenge from a top-class player . ’ |
| 6 | It started coming back after a weekend seeing Darren . |
| 7 | Then the soldiers started coming back after the war , and we got new members of staff — earnest young men who got all intense about everything . |
| 8 | Like rejected lovers returning to a trysting place , they kept coming back to the areas surrounding the station . |
| 9 | She remembered coming back into the office after spending the morning talking to a woman who had started her own cosmetics business in her kitchen , and the pink message slip on her desk , saying that Matthew Prescott had called her . |
| 10 | I had to come back to a degree agreeing with them . |
| 11 | So he placed an order with him for all these , and he had to come back to the factory , reorganize the factory , to meet this terrific order he 'd got for pencils , you see . |
| 12 | Toby had come back for the moment . |
| 13 | She had come back to the nursery ready to sympathize with Nannie about the underarm cramp caused by her inside . |
| 14 | After wartime service in the RAF he had come back to the School , and with his friends Mr. Norris and Mr. Hardie had helped to introduce Rugby to the School . |
| 15 | He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them . |
| 16 | It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field . |
| 17 | The woman had come back to the farm 's archway from where she and two men stared nervously up the road towards Frasnes . |
| 18 | But they had finished with Elise 's death , and now Merrill had come back to the Midlands city where she and Elise had grown up before they went their separate ways . |
| 19 | He had appointed the Tower Commission , he said , specifically to find out whether money had been generated from the arms sales beyond the ‘ twelve million two ’ , and , if so , who had done it ; but no one had come back with an answer . |
| 20 | He did not believe that Rose , if she had come back into the flat , would have let the cat out , or left it unfed . |
| 21 | Sam Somerville had come back into the room , shouting at the bugs : ‘ He 's gone . |
| 22 | Sandra had come back into the room , and somehow she was at Matthew 's side , holding his hand and weeping . |
| 23 | They had come back as a fleet , their sails bellying out under the south-westerly gale , the men shouting to each other across the water to compare catches , and their womenfolk waiting on the beach to help with the unloading and to make a start on the gutting and salting and packing . |
| 24 | They had come back across the river and they were in a street close to the Embassy . |
| 25 | The three of them had come back down the tunnel to the entrance , with the man pushing Nona in front of him as a hostage . |
| 26 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 27 | Against the black walls there were of course changes in fashion , changes of music , changes in drink ; for instance for a couple of years you could get little liqueur glasses of violently alcoholic black coffee with pyramids of whipped cream on top after one of the barstaff had come back from an affair with a real sailor ( or so he said anyway ) in some German port , Germany somewhere . |
| 28 | So get in the old shed and then we got a load of swedes , we put it in rack and we come out like chips , chips of raw swede , and then sugar beet pulp , which had come back from the factory . |
| 29 | Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty . |
| 30 | On Friday night , Tina phoned just after Jack had come back from the supermarket with the weekend shopping . |