Example sentences of "[subord] the [noun pl] came back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the children , only Emma really grew up at Rhydoldog , although the others came back at weekends . |
| 2 | Amstrad boss Mr Sugar was not at home , but a spokesman said if the demonstrators came back today they could have tea and biscuits with his wife . |
| 3 | Fortunately a supply of candles was found and as the competing teams and their supporters arrived they settled down to some serious drinking as darts players do and nearly cleared the stock of bottled beer before the lights came back on . |
| 4 | A tow to the SS Reina Del Pacifico was followed by a wash in the Chief Petty Officers ' quarters , interrupted by two hits on the ship from a French battery , and when the canoeists came back on deck they found the canoe had been stripped by souvenir hunters , who now began asking for autographs . |
| 5 | Indeed , when the bruises came back they were larger , more ragged . |
| 6 | And so they sat with clammy hands for an hour and a half and let go only when the lights came back on . |
| 7 | When the parents came back , the erm , gaping behaviour was exactly the same . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When the children came back from school they found that still nothing had changed . |
| 10 | It was n't badly paid , and she could be at home when the children came back from school , and get their tea . |
| 11 | Their knives were sent away for analysis and when the results came back indicating the presence of copper on the blades the rest of the suspects were released . |
| 12 | I had my feet on the ground as the echoes came back . |
| 13 | As the horses came back , pickets threw half-bricks at them . |
| 14 | Every one of those men who went in the forces , who lived to tell the tale , was given their jobs back when they came back , because their jobs were replaced by women during the war , drivers and conductors , they were replaced by women and as the men came back , so the women were paid off , so everybody who came back from the war was given their job back . |
| 15 | Very often , even though the planes came back safely , there would be dead and injured on board , and sometimes a damaged aircraft would have been unable to release its bombs either over the target or in the North Sea on the way home and would have to land back at base with the bombs still on board . |