Example sentences of "come back [prep] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The callous incident of the heat sink … but then : hands linked in the Tunnel of Terror … the upper-habber had come back for his two companions , for whatever reason …
2 This is so ingrained and so influential , I shall have occasion to come back to it many times .
3 Colour came back into his weathered cheeks ; the volcano of prophecy that was known to burn in him had cooled and crusted over .
4 Billy looked annoyed and was about to say something when Knocker came back with their two pints of cider , looking more like tea cups in his massive fists .
5 When I came back to him five minutes later he 'd written his first two lines .
6 When they began to move the flow of blood came back to their stiffened limbs and they felt better .
7 But if he was caught with the with the crown , by his opponents before he circled them and came back to his own allies … then he had to go outside the camp , and he was called a [ maggot ! ] .
8 We , we kept on er making or doing repairs for the Ministry of Works for about ooh seven or eight years after the war finished , which kept a lot of men working in Galashiels when we , you know , when they were n't very sure if they could come back to their old jobs .
9 After asking them all about their latest film , their hobbies , their lovers , wives , husbands , children , and anything else of interest , our researchers will come back with their tape-recorded notes , pick out the best bits of their interview and write up a biography .
10 The mother wasp , therefore , does not merely dig a burrow , and later leave it never to return : she departs from and comes back to it many times .
11 Gran comes back from her Senior Citizens with enough news to fill the Magazine .
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