Example sentences of "come back [prep] a [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel bitter that while I was out there I was somebody but I 've come back as a third class citizen . |
| 2 | Should n't we be opening our universities to older people , for people to come back for a second dose as it were , for retraining and so on ? |
| 3 | The parents of the kids at the school where Mrs Rogers taught had her barred from the school , in case the hit squad came back for a second try . |
| 4 | When I was driving my new Granada in 1989 and dropped a friend down the road , a police car came past , saw the car with a black man driving it , circled round and came back for a second check . |
| 5 | ‘ I never seen anybody come back for a second dose of the blue , ’ said a man behind her , for all the world as though he were safe reminiscing in some bar of his old age . |
| 6 | ‘ Then we would probably have a mandatory defence , which we would not duck , and then come back for a third defence against Bruno . ’ |