Example sentences of "come back to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have come back to the international scene with a fierce rival in Phil Tufnell , with Ian Salisbury breathing down our necks and Hampshire 's young Sean Udal making great strides every season . |
| 2 | The devilish smile , oblique and sharp as a scar , had come back to the gaunt face . |
| 3 | And , as one later moved into other divisions to be taught by other people one always seemed to come back to the Roman Conquest of Britain , which I found particularly boring , and learnt nothing . |
| 4 | Erm but to come back to the first criterion which says avoid the greenbelt , I know exactly what you mean when you say avoid the greenbelt , but if in the context of the wording before that where it says to be located beyond the outer boundary of the York greenbelt , do you need to have criterion one ? |
| 5 | Yes , well I think that 's why you that 's why I keep on trying to come back to the regulatory system , because what you really in fundamental form a pension is a contract between an employer and an individual , you know you pay me so much money and when you get to a certain age I will pay you . |
| 6 | I have no residual obligation to come back to the same market stall next week . |
| 7 | Ready to come back to the unreal world ? ’ |
| 8 | She got out of bed and thought everything over very carefully , and although it was difficult to keep emotion out of it , she still came back to the self-same answer . |
| 9 | Time and time again discussions about tears came back to the central theme of the wish to be cared for-not all the time , the women with whom I talked were quite clear about that . |
| 10 | Finch finished the movement and then came back to the other room , thinking of how much time he had spent with Henry and Betty over the years . |
| 11 | Abruptly he came back to the present day , his wedding day . |
| 12 | Even more basic , though , was the pressure on a Celtic team playing for their dignity and self respect and who did so in such a convincing manner that all diagnoses of the final result came back to the same conundrum , where does the level of commitment shown against Rangers go when Liam Brady needs it most ? |
| 13 | It came back to the same thing . |
| 14 | He was awarded his first degree by the college where he was now a fellow , spent a year in the United States , and came back to the same college to complete his PhD . |
| 15 | I came back to the beautiful beach house from shopping . |
| 16 | He stepped back , pausing to think , but the more he tried to invent reasonable explanations , the more he came back to the obvious truth : someone had put out the light and locked him in . |
| 17 | After her return , after that heart-sinking moment of coming back to the greasy frying pan and the littered table , there was cleaning . |
| 18 | ‘ I keep coming back to the same point , John . |
| 19 | Earlier rate cuts are beginning to filter through the economy and the retail trade is making optimistic noises about shoppers coming back to the High Street . |
| 20 | They 're going to work in leisure industries , in caring services , in education , all those things that go with what we think as a good life , and indeed , coming back to the third world , that 's the very kind of thing that we need in African villages and India — agriculturalists , erm teachers , health workers and so on . |
| 21 | After spending some time there ( as if we were actually present ) we will gradually come back to the present day , and as we do so we will become more reflective and try and push the present away from us — making it strange — by maintaining a certain distance from our immediate history . |
| 22 | But then if that not conceded or protest not sus sustained , that would the letter would come back to the Official letter would come back to the branch secretary you see , and he would look at it , and he would put it to his branch and if they wanted to go further , that went to Euston House , the N U R headquarters , Euston House . |
| 23 | Well now , I 'll come back to the whole question of ambivalence , er , next term , when I discuss , the what is really the central issue of the book apart from ambivalence , which is the incest question . |
| 24 | So we come back to the one explanation which resolves every difficulty : the ‘ discovery ’ made by the monks of Canterbury in 1120–21 , as the canons of York at once realized , was the moment of their enlargement . |
| 25 | They wo n't do away with them , no but cos they , they 're trying to do away with the National Dock Labour Board and come back to the old system . |
| 26 | Then we come back to the big man up front . |
| 27 | Colleagues , I now come back to the special report and will take speakers from the regions . |
| 28 | are now going to look at these figures and come back to the next meeting er with some comments , with regards to their projects . |
| 29 | two fifty to ten twenty nine , well , come back to the same sort of time , the hour just before that , say two fifty to nine fifty , what would two fifty to nine fifty be ? |
| 30 | Well I think I , I mean I do agree and I think that the that er that pressure is now getting on to these , these city institutions , but erm , but I still come back to the basic thing that , that really , you know what appears to me is happening is we 've we 're having literally millions of pounds taken out in , in issuing these massive massive writs you know , a hundred and seventy eight page writs are sort of being and really the money for those is coming out of the remaining money in our pension funds and really I feel that what wou what is happening is this , as far as I 'm concerned , is all due to the self-regulatory body being set under the Financial Services Act , and in a way I feel that you know we 're being made to pay for sorting out a mess that somebody else is making . |