Example sentences of "[noun pl] came back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clapping their wings the gulls came back from the sea , |
| 2 | The goal though , was against the run of play and sure enough , Rovers came back at the start of the second half with an equaliser from Kenny Irons . |
| 3 | The keys came back through the post , without even a thank-you note . |
| 4 | The visitors came back into the game with two penalty goals by Graves and could have turned ends 9–9 had he been successful with his third penalty goal on half-time . |
| 5 | The Dili watchers came back to the Company headquarters to find the 2/2 was now linked to Brigadier Veale 's 200 survivors of Sparrow Force with a base at Mape , in the hills ( see map p. 77 ) . |
| 6 | Less than an hour later they were back in number twenty-six , and she was so tired that she was past worrying about having to sleep in the same room but , confronted by the reality of the limited space , two small beds and a very large , powerful man , her nervous fears came back like a river in full spate . |
| 7 | The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money . |
| 8 | But the story of the Gesta did not end in 1109. just as later monks came back to the Flemish comital genealogies to keep them up to date and to add new material , so the Gesta attracted amplification . |
| 9 | Sounds came back to the watching eagles . |
| 10 | It was boring in the passage but also , it proved , necessary , as one or two passengers came back for a look at the corpse . |
| 11 | Tim climbed down the tree just as Pegs came back into the garden . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Leni came back with the coffee and poured it into two non-matching teacups . |
| 14 | The men came back across the courtyard . |
| 15 | One of the men came back with a woman . |
| 16 | I was interested in you talking there about you know , that one , that particular case whereby one bloke was threatened with dismissal and very rapidly the way you describe it , the men came back with a threat of strike action . |
| 17 | It was already in her hand before he spoke , and by the time the men came back with the table and pillows they were running in normal saline through a line in his hand . |
| 18 | One of the top ANC men came back from the Dar Es Salaam talks and told us , ‘ I am more than ever convinced that violence is not the way . |
| 19 | The girls were less politically conscious than the boys , although the staff would notice a more defensive attitude when the pupils came back from the townships after the holidays . |
| 20 | But as Haslemere relaxed the Otters came back into the game , equalised and went ahead from well-struck short corners . |