Example sentences of "he come back [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had a few drinks and all thought he seemed a bit of a laugh so we asked him to come back to the shop with us and have a bit of a sing . |
| 2 | The queasiness which had first compelled him to come back to the house that evening clawed him again , and kept him in the chair under her fond glances and bids to intimacy . |
| 3 | Do you think there 's any chance of him coming back for the opening of — ? ’ |
| 4 | Now I see him coming back in the middle of the afternoon , with , I hope , a railway sandwich or two inside him , apparently not in the least put out at being employed as a busboy . |
| 5 | I was going to ask you to help me to make him come back to the warren . |
| 6 | She did n't actually hear him come back into the room ; it was just the feeling of being watched that alerted her to his presence , and she turned her head warily . |
| 7 | ‘ He came back to the dressing room in tears , ’ Pat remembered for me . |
| 8 | He became very dissatisfied and he came back to the U K. |
| 9 | The whole meeting looked up in relief as he came back to the saloon . |
| 10 | ‘ She always used to leave little warning signs when she was younger , ’ he said as he came back to the horses . |
| 11 | By the time he came back to the hotel it was dark . |
| 12 | Slowly , blinking , he came back to the present . |
| 13 | He ran from end to end of the yard and paused as he came back to the edge of the fire to peer down into a shattered mirror . |
| 14 | He came back to the table and sat down . |
| 15 | ‘ What are they like ? ’ she asked when he came back to the table . |
| 16 | His face was paper-white when he came back to the table . |
| 17 | He came back to the table and sat down . |
| 18 | He felt rather shy and silly , when he came back to the table with Lalage , skipping along and grabbing for his hand as she went . |
| 19 | She was stirring the coffee in front of her , an innocent expression on her face as he came back to the table . |
| 20 | Now , he came back to the theme with a script loosely based on Poe poem , The Raven , but the connection was so loose that no one could discover what it was . |
| 21 | ‘ I love him , Peter , ’ she whispered when he came back to the bedside with a glass of water . |
| 22 | He came back to the bedside and picked up an already opened bottle of red wine from the bedside table . |
| 23 | ‘ They 're only vagabonds , not real Romanies , ’ Farmer Yatton told Cheryl and Angela-when he came back to the farmhouse after seeing the gipsies off his land . |
| 24 | ‘ No , I saw the bruise when he came back to the shop on Tuesday evening and I asked him what he 'd done to himself . |
| 25 | When he came back to the house he refused to take a chair or a drink . |
| 26 | He came back to the house crying his eyes out . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ He came back for the church 's centenary , ’ Mr Hickman recalled . |
| 28 | He came back down the stairs . |
| 29 | ‘ He was in Singapore last week , but he came back at the weekend , I know , ’ she observed innocently , hating herself for needing to know so badly . |
| 30 | Taskopruzade 's statement that he came back at the request of a repentant sultan is , of course , highly doubtful in view of the fact that his departure and return seem certain to have occurred in the reigns of different sultans . |