Example sentences of "[vb past] come back [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Three of the men agreed to come back to the captain , and we put the others in my cave . |
| 2 | And , as one later moved into other divisions to be taught by other people one always seemed to come back to the Roman Conquest of Britain , which I found particularly boring , and learnt nothing . |
| 3 | Colour began to come back into the young woman 's cheeks . |
| 4 | People began to come back into the block . |
| 5 | He began to come back down the tunnel towards her . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , the pressure on me has increased since Stuart decided to come back on the England scene , but this is not the first time he has squeezed the position and I accept that challenge from a top-class player . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , the pressure on me has increased since Stuart decided to come back on the England scene but this is not the first time he has squeezed the position and I accept that challenge from a top-class player . ’ |
| 8 | Then the soldiers started coming back after the war , and we got new members of staff — earnest young men who got all intense about everything . |
| 9 | Like rejected lovers returning to a trysting place , they kept coming back to the areas surrounding the station . |
| 10 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
| 11 | She remembered coming back into the office after spending the morning talking to a woman who had started her own cosmetics business in her kitchen , and the pink message slip on her desk , saying that Matthew Prescott had called her . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Toby had come back for the moment . |
| 14 | The woman had come back to the farm 's archway from where she and two men stared nervously up the road towards Frasnes . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field . |
| 17 | She had come back to the nursery ready to sympathize with Nannie about the underarm cramp caused by her inside . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them . |
| 20 | The devilish smile , oblique and sharp as a scar , had come back to the gaunt face . |
| 21 | Sam Somerville had come back into the room , shouting at the bugs : ‘ He 's gone . |
| 22 | Sandra had come back into the room , and somehow she was at Matthew 's side , holding his hand and weeping . |
| 23 | He did not believe that Rose , if she had come back into the flat , would have let the cat out , or left it unfed . |
| 24 | They had come back across the river and they were in a street close to the Embassy . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Not surprisingly , the stars of the night series final were the player who had come back from the World Cup . |
| 28 | On Friday night , Tina phoned just after Jack had come back from the supermarket with the weekend shopping . |
| 29 | ‘ To us , he had come back from the dead , ’ his mother , Camilla Swann , said yesterday . |
| 30 | 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 . |