Example sentences of "had come back [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he placed an order with him for all these , and he had to come back to the factory , reorganize the factory , to meet this terrific order he 'd got for pencils , you see . |
| 2 | Toby had come back for the moment . |
| 3 | She had come back to the nursery ready to sympathize with Nannie about the underarm cramp caused by her inside . |
| 4 | After wartime service in the RAF he had come back to the School , and with his friends Mr. Norris and Mr. Hardie had helped to introduce Rugby to the School . |
| 5 | He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them . |
| 6 | It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field . |
| 7 | The woman had come back to the farm 's archway from where she and two men stared nervously up the road towards Frasnes . |
| 8 | But they had finished with Elise 's death , and now Merrill had come back to the Midlands city where she and Elise had grown up before they went their separate ways . |
| 9 | He did not believe that Rose , if she had come back into the flat , would have let the cat out , or left it unfed . |
| 10 | Sam Somerville had come back into the room , shouting at the bugs : ‘ He 's gone . |
| 11 | Sandra had come back into the room , and somehow she was at Matthew 's side , holding his hand and weeping . |
| 12 | They had come back across the river and they were in a street close to the Embassy . |
| 13 | The three of them had come back down the tunnel to the entrance , with the man pushing Nona in front of him as a hostage . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | So get in the old shed and then we got a load of swedes , we put it in rack and we come out like chips , chips of raw swede , and then sugar beet pulp , which had come back from the factory . |
| 16 | Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty . |
| 17 | On Friday night , Tina phoned just after Jack had come back from the supermarket with the weekend shopping . |
| 18 | He had that look he used to get on Saturday mornings after he had come back from the shops . |
| 19 | he had come back from the meeting with Patrick , and he had opened a bottle of whisky … automatically his had reached for it , found it between his legs , and he was raising it to his lips when the hurried knocking shook the door again . |
| 20 | And that happened each day till Thursday and then , by then , you were delivering what had come back from the Monday , hoping that when you delivered , and collected the money of course , that you might get something else tt , which I were n't too bad a salesman really . |
| 21 | Not surprisingly , the stars of the night series final were the player who had come back from the World Cup . |
| 22 | An attempt had been made to have the case relisted before the sentencer within the 28 day period during which variations in sentence are permitted by Supreme Court Act 1981 , S.4 ; , and if the matter had come back before the sentencer within that period it would have been open to him to review the sentence and impose a lawful sentence . |