Example sentences of "come back [prep] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am told that other people have had similar experiences but are not prepared to enlarge on their stories ; perhaps they had seen a ghost of a long-gone railwayman who had worked in the area years ago and had come back to his earthly place of employment ! |
| 2 | When she had once laughingly asked , ‘ Who supplies the meat , Father , and the clothes that go between the hats and the shoes ? ’ he had come back with his usual answer to her , ‘ You 're too sharp by half ; you 'll cut yourself one of these days . ’ |
| 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 | She went to a drawer and came back with her tough-it-out pack , unopened , and some matches . |
| 5 | By the time Birkett came back with his hot fish cakes and his prunes , the bridge players and the man reading the newspaper had moved . |
| 6 | He sped out of the room and came back with his blue knapsack , searching the contents worriedly . |
| 7 | ‘ He came back for his spare hearing-aid ? ’ |
| 8 | When they began to move the flow of blood came back to their stiffened limbs and they felt better . |
| 9 | After modulating through the pastel palette , kitchen equipment came back to its original key — exciting , brilliant white — with a square , boxy outline . |
| 10 | When she came back in her long nightdress Maxim was in the bed by the window bare-shouldered and riffling through a handful of motel pamphlets . |
| 11 | A lot of these breeds come from Britain ; they are mostly British , and when you think of seeing the mull , as we do around the countryside , coming back to their proper standard , it gives me considerable pleasure . |
| 12 | There was a feeling that Mill House might just be coming out of the doldrums : he had won his last race , beating his solitary rival at Sandown Park for the princely sum of £426 , and appeared to be coming back to his old self . |
| 13 | But in spite of the bumps in the beginning he kept coming back to my little home studio and that 's how the second half of our lives together began . |
| 14 | L coming back to your other point I mean your saying you could not physically , or you would not wish to accommodate , let me put it that way , you would not wish to accommodate anything more than is now you 're you 're making provision for within the South Ryedale local plan |
| 15 | She went away with some men in brown uniforms and will not come back to her little boy . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Can I come back to my original question , which was yo |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | On impact the ARC flares out and springs back into shape as the foot comes back to its original position and shape . |
| 20 | Not a mark on him so it must have been natural causes ; anyway it would seem that he comes back to his old home or sort of stamping ground . |
| 21 | Gran comes back from her Senior Citizens with enough news to fill the Magazine . |