Example sentences of "come back [prep] the [noun pl] of " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And she comes back to the Counts of Lusignan to foretell deaths — she is a kind of Dame Blanche , or Fata Bianca . |