Example sentences of "come back [prep] the [noun pl] [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 | Down she went and came back with the cups of tea and slices of cake on a tray . |
| 3 | Then I came back to the courts at Bisham again before going back to school again at 3pm for history and then I come back and play again afterwards . |
| 4 | Then they came back to the families in batches , sometimes several hundred at a time . |
| 5 | In summing up what they learned from their primary and middle school case studies , Briault and West ( 1990:99 ) came back to the purposes of good management : The objective of management , in whatever sphere , is to improve the product and to meet the customer 's requirements . |
| 6 | ‘ Tennis came back to the Olympics for the first time in Seoul , and maybe now that it is recognised again as an Olympic sport , it will become more important in East Germany . |
| 7 | As word came back from the matches in front it looked as if only Dr. Stephen Bonnard and Buck Finnegan were in serious contention . |
| 8 | The girls were less politically conscious than the boys , although the staff would notice a more defensive attitude when the pupils came back from the townships after the holidays . |
| 9 | The evening light came through the skylights high overhead , glossing the scurfy backs , the sores , the scabby manes , and a soft echo came back from the walls of the vast , bare concrete building of animal content , feeding . |
| 10 | Moggach was at Badock for a year , doing the things that students do : coming back across the Downs at night ( no money for bus fares ) , giving each other piggy backs : ‘ It was all very jolly and studenty and like students should be . ’ |
| 11 | Some of this stuff may be coming back to the states via the Far East . |
| 12 | When I was c coming back with the boots in them . |
| 13 | I was coming back from the labs at Menelaus , after some work detail or other . |
| 14 | IF BILL CLINTON were to look to Florida for advice on how to pass a health-care bill , the answer might come back in the words of Lyndon Johnson : better to have your enemies inside your tent pissing out , than outside pissing in . |
| 15 | And she comes back to the Counts of Lusignan to foretell deaths — she is a kind of Dame Blanche , or Fata Bianca . |