Example sentences of "came back [prep] the [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dawson came back to the phone two or three minutes later . |
| 2 | The daylight faded when Raghunath came back to the teacher tired and dripping . |
| 3 | Her mother of course was aware that fifteen does not relish the solitude that fifty does , and came back from the village one day when Peony had been particularly silent and lumpish , with the news that Mrs Price who kept an antique shop had her grandchildren staying with her , and she was invited to go round and play tennis with them and have tea . |
| 4 | We were in a shabby little hole in Paddington , and when we came back from the pub that night he went walking up and down that hotel room , sticking his chest out and saying , ‘ I 'm the sex queen of Bloomsbury . |
| 5 | When Mr. Andrew came back from the war old Mr. Stavanger was dead . |