Example sentences of "[vb past] back [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the nomes scouted around the sheds and came back with a few vegetables that had been missed , but it was a pitifully small amount . |
| 2 | I could n't imagine what she expected to tell them if they all came back on the same day . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It came back to the same thing . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | She came back in a few minutes , looking very serious . |
| 8 | But after six weeks the colour came back in the same region . |
| 9 | The attendant came back after a few minutes , its little red boots ruffling the hem of its robe . |
| 10 | Green Baize are 10 points above last year 's winners 720 Snooker Club A , who scored a 5–1 away win over Greene 's Bar B. AOH dropped back after a 3-all draw with Greene 's Bar A. |
| 11 | She was most solicitous ( scheming bitch ! ) so he told her that his wife was cured and they went back to the same old routine . |
| 12 | But they went back to the same orphanages which were grim.There was a determination to help them . |
| 13 | I did n't want to leave the Maxteds behind because they had started out as my passengers , so I went back in a few minutes later to see if they were ready to leave . |
| 14 | She looked back through the many pages she had written , and saw the great names glitter there — Proclus , Plotinus , Iamblichus , Ficino , Pico , Agrippa . |
| 15 | I walked the glen many times , and looked back on the few trees , lying far in the hollow , that grow near the place where the massacre is said to have begun ; while on either side were deep rock-lined , tree and fern-fringed chasms , leading into seclusions and bleak mountain summits , one could spend long hours exploring . |
| 16 | There was wild thyme growing up here too , and as she lay back for a few blissful moments ' rest its delicate perfume assailed Robbie 's nostrils — another sensory memory to be stored away , she thought wistfully . |
| 17 | ‘ A Practical Revivalist ’ wrote back on the same day . |