Example sentences of "came back to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 About halfway across the Channel a man in a plastic mackintosh came back to a nearby table and announced that the rain had finally stopped — just our luck , he added .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Abruptly he came back to the present day , his wedding day .
6 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 ?
7 It came back to the same thing .
8 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 .
9 I came back to the beautiful beach house from shopping .
10 Sounds came back to the watching eagles .
11 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 .
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