Example sentences of "and come back [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About a week later , I finished work early one day and came back to the house . |
| 2 | Stephen had a meeting with the shop steward the following morning at 8.30 , and came back to the house afterwards shouting to Victor the butler for strong black coffee . |
| 3 | Then he lost his nerve and rushed out of the flat and came back to the house to find me . ’ |
| 4 | Suddenly , to her relief , the telephone rang , Joanna picked it up , wrote down the message , and came back to the table , looking elated . |
| 5 | She headed away into tall grass , hid the baby and came back to the boat for the return trip to Tiger Haven . |
| 6 | ‘ One spring I left my noviciate and came back to the farm . |
| 7 | Sykes went to Paris a couple of days before you did , and came back on the Monday . |
| 8 | The prince scraped up the money they had set aside to repair the roof again and Anna went off to India with some English acquaintances and stayed with the viceroy and came back with a ruby . |
| 9 | He went into the small scullery and came back with a pomander , a ball of cloth stuffed with cloves and herbs . |
| 10 | Zena Blair went shopping in the Northcott Centre last week and came back with a computer in her trolly . |
| 11 | Forne of Skirpenbeck took away the bowl , although that was not his business , and came back with a leg of pork , the burnt seaweed still sticking to it . |
| 12 | County were battered and bruised , but they still had a bit of bounce left and came back with a goal from Dean Thomas which sent Nicky Hammond the wrong way , only because it took a deflection . |
| 13 | Ian went off and came back with a box the same size as the ones that had been used for the train . |
| 14 | He left the library and came back with a riding crop . |
| 15 | So she dashed off to her room and came back with a piece of underwear that I had certainly never seen before . |
| 16 | He walked to his tool shed and came back with a garden spade . |
| 17 | For example , they describe a child reading the following passage from " Black Beauty " : Then someone ran to our master 's house and came back with a gun ; presently there was a loud bang and a dreadful shriek , and then all was still ; the black horse moved no more . |
| 18 | Giving her his hanky , he went back to the restaurant and came back with a glass of iced water . |
| 19 | And last night she went to a do at the American Embassy and came back with a packet of chocolate cookies — er — biscuits , no less . ’ |
| 20 | Down she went and came back with the cups of tea and slices of cake on a tray . |
| 21 | So she was packed off to bloody England and came back with an Englishman . |
| 22 | He went off into the kitchen and came back with an apple pie . |
| 23 | Garry answered it and came back into the kitchen with two policemen . |
| 24 | The old woman said something and Simon turned and came back into the room and stood by the deerskin pallet on which Hugh was lying . |
| 25 | The other people heard the noise of the shot and came back into the room . |
| 26 | Marcus put the thing down without doing any speaking and came back into the room . |
| 27 | As David caught sight of her he left the other two and came back into the foyer . |
| 28 | ‘ Of course , ’ he said calmly and came back across the room . |
| 29 | Her mother of course was aware that fifteen does not relish the solitude that fifty does , and came back from the village one day when Peony had been particularly silent and lumpish , with the news that Mrs Price who kept an antique shop had her grandchildren staying with her , and she was invited to go round and play tennis with them and have tea . |
| 30 | Erm , I have I think cousin , erm , who was in the Air Force during the war , and came back from the Air Force with a child . |