Example sentences of "come back [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 2 | The three of them had come back down the tunnel to the entrance , with the man pushing Nona in front of him as a hostage . |
| 3 | He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them . |
| 4 | It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field . |
| 5 | ‘ Two other factors will make us a better team this season — Keith Finlay has come back to the club from North Fermanagh and that has stiffened our batting while Tony Johnson from Barbados is a superb all rounder . ’ |
| 6 | I mean , I know that a lot of the calls they get are practical , people have come back from the Gulf with no money , no home , I mean they 've lived there for years and years and years , without the family network sometimes to keep them going , or friends , friends , they 've , they 've lost all of their , and it 's , it 's not easy . |
| 7 | On Friday night , Tina phoned just after Jack had come back from the supermarket with the weekend shopping . |
| 8 | he had come back from the meeting with Patrick , and he had opened a bottle of whisky … automatically his had reached for it , found it between his legs , and he was raising it to his lips when the hurried knocking shook the door again . |
| 9 | Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty . |
| 10 | An attempt had been made to have the case relisted before the sentencer within the 28 day period during which variations in sentence are permitted by Supreme Court Act 1981 , S.4 ; , and if the matter had come back before the sentencer within that period it would have been open to him to review the sentence and impose a lawful sentence . |
| 11 | He would expect his visitor to come back through the door to the kitchen . |
| 12 | They sat in the parlour , on the evening of Saturday , September 2nd , waiting for Menzies ' man Allan Stewart to come back with the news from Blair Atoll . |
| 13 | Er I wanted to come back on the question of regeneration and the opportunities in Leeds . |
| 14 | There were visits of this kind at which institutions were told flatly not to come back to the CNAA for validation , for a variety of reasons . |
| 15 | I 'd like to come back to the notion of self-misdiagnosis later , if I may , possibly at some future session . |
| 16 | During the operation , I 'm going to come back to the door in a minute , during the operation which gun were you carrying ? |
| 17 | Even the one who has betrayed the light sooner or later is forced to come back to the centre of stability , where he is raised once more into the understanding of clarity and purity of thought and action . |
| 18 | For example , if you are catching the ball in front of the body , then you have the freedom to throw the ball in any direction but if you catch the ball behind the body , you still have to come back to the position to the front of the body and to do this takes more time . |
| 19 | ‘ It is why my family sacrificed a nice life in Tenerife to come back to the cold of Britain four years ago . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , is that why you thought it safe to come back to the parlour after your arduous work in the surgery ? ’ said McAllister dangerously , casting a sarcastic eye at the half-read novel in his hand . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He began to come back down the tunnel towards her . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll have to come back in the summer without the boots to play properly ! ’ |
| 24 | A goal or two is what everyone needs and at least United have a chance to come back in the cup with the second leg at Torquay next week |
| 25 | Robins became senior staff nurse , the other staff nurses moved up one , and the senior student nurse in the A.R.R. Unit came back into the Hall as an acting staff nurse . |
| 26 | Garry answered it and came back into the kitchen with two policemen . |
| 27 | The presbyterians also had misgivings , and only came back into the system in 1838 when they were practically guaranteed control of their own schools within it . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Then she heard Jacky calling goodbye , and Clare came back into the room with some mugs of coffee . |
| 30 | The visitors came back into the game with two penalty goals by Graves and could have turned ends 9–9 had he been successful with his third penalty goal on half-time . |