Example sentences of "come back from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An Oxford aid worker who 's just come back from the Croatian capital Zagreb , says the situation there is getting out of hand . |
| 2 | ‘ To us , he had come back from the dead , ’ his mother , Camilla Swann , said yesterday . |
| 3 | When Cardiff had come back from the dead , he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer . |
| 4 | The portal was commissioned by Gaston IV , the then Count of Béarn , when he came back from the First Crusade . |
| 5 | ON THE morning of Sunday , 18 December , exactly one week after the Great North struck , Pipeline came back from the dead . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | Friends do n't come back from the dead , Leila thought , rampaging through the corridor from the canteen . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If you ask me , the good Rabbi Loewe should come back from the dead and sue — ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Lavinia , what do we do when we come back from the littlest room ? |
| 14 | The ‘ Lang comes back from the grave ’ phenomenon makes the whole election seem a disaster for the anti-unionist forces , but it was much less of one than 1979 . |