Example sentences of "come back [prep] the [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | They should also be in frequent contact with all of the somewhat numerous organisations involved in the rural development of the Western Isles , and with the admirable young people who have come back from the mainland to work at the grass-roots level . |
2 | She assumed that , having had time to think things over , he was going to come back with the decision to tell Marc everything that had led up to this crazy engagement of theirs . |
3 | Mr , do you want to come back on the point made on the other side of the room about your arbitrary selection of building rates ? |
4 | As I have to come back to the airport to pick up a member of tonight 's convention it will be easy to drop you off at the same time . ’ |
5 | Do n't put yourself in a situation where the treasurer has to come back to the committee to argue over every last penny . |
6 | Lachlan Watt had been about to leave Hamish and Antonia 's party when Fergus had fallen over and Fiona had decided it was time to take her husband home ; she had offered Lachy a lift back to his brother 's house , but when they 'd got there Fergus had seemed fast asleep , snoring loudly and taking no apparent notice of Fiona shaking him and shouting at him ; Lachy had volunteered to come back to the castle to help get Fergus out of the car and upstairs to bed ; Fiona would run Lachy back afterwards . |
7 | We are determined to come back in the spring showing the country that we have some really talented and fighting cricketers in England . |
8 | ‘ The first time she went out in it she came back into the house giggling that she 'd driven through town with the top down , even though it was freezing . |
9 | They came back with the monsters hide and a report on the blasted stone cover at the opening , and with theses verifications the authorities grew friendlier |
10 | You 're welcome , ’ then went to the sink in the far corner of the kitchen to wash his hands , came back to the fireside to sit down in a chair to the right of the oven , and watched his wife putting out the meal . |
11 | The young widow came back to the ballroom to make one last request . |
12 | Then he lost his nerve and rushed out of the flat and came back to the house to find me . ’ |
13 | Several times Paul Guillaume came back to the house to have his portrait painted in a discreet , dark suit , starched collar and tie , jaunty trilby hat , a gloved hand languidly holding a cigarette and thinly parted lips which seem to be saying ‘ I am a man of exquisite taste ’ . |
14 | He came back to the house crying his eyes out . ’ |
15 | Yes , if we skip all the intermediate years with , after the war I came back from the army to find we 'd been bombed out and were living in requisition accommodation , after a time , the , we were moved into a new flat over some shops . |
16 | I came back from the Oval to find that Buffy had blown his brains out because his father had refused to pay his gambling debts . |
17 | At midday , Chola , Mina and Kāli came back from the fields to prepare the food for the evening . |
18 | So anyway er I mean being a keen motorcyclist I borrowed a Moto Guzzi last year , you know a big V twin , beautiful bike , I went up into Derbyshire and had a you know ride on it , and thought well that 's not bad , see I 've always had British bikes , and I think I might g I might get one of those , so I came back in the house put the helmet down and said hey that Guzzi 's not bad , I could get a decent one for about two thousand you know about nineteen eighty , you know nice Le Mans Two . |
19 | The thump of the back wheel coming back into the gutter brought Bob 's window down . |
20 | Like rejected lovers returning to a trysting place , they kept coming back to the areas surrounding the station . |
21 | First they gather information about their neighbourhood before coming back to the school to translate their ideas , ( in best Blue Peter fashion ) with glue , cloth , cigarette packets , and other recyclable materials , into a colourful collage clock . |
22 | ‘ And I 'm only coming back to the flat to get my bag , if that 's the way you feel . |
23 | More children are coming back to the library to work because teachers give the initial push by bringing them … |
24 | Mudskippers nowhere to be seen , but will probably come back through the catfish flap later . |
25 | I would come back into the house feeling so humiliated that I would just sit down and cry and then the baby would start crying so I had to stop . |
26 | Will he come back to the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh , South ( Mr. Griffiths ) ? |
27 | ‘ Of course I 'll come back to the Dordogne to see you , ’ Jenna promised , knowing as she said it that she could never face Alain again . |
28 | She had then come back past the stables to pay a visit to her father 's huge slobbering wolf hounds so the tidy boot prints did n't have a returning track beside them . |
29 | The difficulty with all these forecasts is that the type of skills required depends on decisions made by managers about the way in which work is organised around the technology , and we thus come back to the problem identified with forecasts made about the impact of new technology on society . |
30 | Mark comes back into the room wearing his new shorts . |