Example sentences of "[verb] back [prep] the dead " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To us , he had come back from the dead , ’ his mother , Camilla Swann , said yesterday . |
| 2 | When Cardiff had come back from the dead , he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer . |
| 3 | ON THE morning of Sunday , 18 December , exactly one week after the Great North struck , Pipeline came back from the dead . |
| 4 | In his first reign at Everton , Kendall 's fortunes changed when his side came back from the dead in a Milk Cup tie against Oxford back in 1984 . |
| 5 | A few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune . |
| 6 | Wycliffe turned back to the dead man . |
| 7 | He glanced back at the dead girl and smiled , as if to chide her gently for her folly . |
| 8 | Several papers report on Goldie the goldfish which was apparently brought back from the dead when its owner gave it the kiss of life and poured whisky down its throat . |
| 9 | I finished cleaning my mouth and hands and went back to the dead man 's chamber . |
| 10 | Friends do n't come back from the dead , Leila thought , rampaging through the corridor from the canteen . |
| 11 | The most unlikely moment for Claire to talk about a day when she and her brother went walking across the land of a man who believed he 'd come back from the dead as a fox . |
| 12 | If you ask me , the good Rabbi Loewe should come back from the dead and sue — ’ |
| 13 | He went through a brief period of chatting to the customers down at the bank about how he had seen someone come back from the dead . |
| 14 | If the letter then comes back through the dead letter office , the plaintiff 's solicitor should make his own application to set aside any interlocutory judgment he has signed . |