Example sentences of "he come back [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But my father went to America just after the war , and when he came back on the Queen Mary , he brought my mother some nylons , which were not obtainable in Britain at that time . |
| 32 | By the time he came back into the sitting-room , carrying a couple of tumblers , Lisa had seated herself nervously in one of the armchairs . |
| 33 | As he came back into the hall , his face irregularly illuminated by its flame , she was overwhelmed by the dramatic beauty of his features . |
| 34 | He came back into the kitchen . |
| 35 | When he came back into the doorway of the room where she waited , he had a duffle coat over his arm , and was carrying a folding garden-bed with a rigid aluminium frame and a patterned canvas cover printed with brilliant sunflowers . |
| 36 | The first thing that Daniel did when he came back into the room was to remove the record and switch off the gramophone . |
| 37 | Evelyn asked as he came back into the room . |
| 38 | Battler looked at him eagerly as he came back into the room . |
| 39 | Christina was dressed in shorts and a loose cotton shirt when he came back into the room . |
| 40 | He came back into the room . |
| 41 | And sure enough , he came back into the room and shut the door . |
| 42 | She was still silently pondering this as he came back into the room and smiled across at his mother . |
| 43 | He was soothing someone , his voice gentle , and when he came back into the room there was an altogether different look on his face . |
| 44 | ‘ I 've been awake for over an hour , ’ she said , sitting on the edge of the bed , when he came back into the bedroom . |
| 45 | Alex saw him looking at it as he came back with the glasses . |
| 46 | ‘ She 'd hold out for a while but it would always be made up after he came back with the roses . |
| 47 | So I told him that when he came back with the policeman . |
| 48 | He came back with the torch and shone it on her . |
| 49 | He came back with the basin of cold water and put more cold compresses on her ankle . |
| 50 | He came back with the tin and two jumpers , one of which he tossed on her lap . |
| 51 | He would have liked to hear the figure of his salary ; but just as he was nervously about to sound that note the little boy came back — the little boy Mrs Moreen had sent out of the room to fetch her fan ( 3 ) He came back without the fan , only with the casual observation that he could n't find it . |
| 52 | He switched off the flashlight as he came back around the dirt path . |
| 53 | Noticed when he came back in the afternoon , while he was talking to Rose . |
| 54 | He came back in the middle of the morning and his eyes met Jenna 's at once . |
| 55 | When he came back in the evening he sat for a long time gazing out across the V-shaped valley leading south . |
| 56 | He came back in the evening , bringing Lyn a fieldmouse . |
| 57 | His premiership appeared not so much to be running out as running down , Few believed that when he came back in the autumn he would be able to do more than coast gently and desultorily along for another six months . |
| 58 | ‘ I did n't know what to do when he came back from the zone . |
| 59 | He came back from the loo and I had to stop myself telling him what I 'd found out and that it did n't seem silly or neurotic or hopeless or anything , but just very thoughtful and touching . |
| 60 | Elliott Gabellah , vice president of the Rhodesian ANC , met us the day after he came back from the independence celebrations . |