Example sentences of "come back [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And one thing you might come up with — this is just my idea , Vic is n't so sure about it — is that they ( i.e. us ) have come back to re-enact the ceremony for some reason that 's tremendously important to their tribes . |
| 2 | Yes oh yes another about another six years probably but we had to come back to educate the kids . |
| 3 | Whether it was the caffeine or Anthony 's taking so much trouble over her , or perhaps merely the result of laying her aching , pounding head back on the pillow , Julia felt slightly less uncomfortable in bed and she told Anthony so when he came back to take the tray away . |
| 4 | He must have taken a shine to the jacket because he turned the corner — and never came back leaving the police red-faced . |
| 5 | Then I was working and my sister Mary started work and my father went out one night and he came back knocked the door and he was drunk as per usual . |
| 6 | Ivan Cooper and other speakers were less ambiguous in calling for restraint and Betty Sinclair came back to ask the crowd to disperse quietly . |
| 7 | Her coughing had started again and soon tears mingled with wheezing and she was in a sorry state by the time her husband came back to say the carriage was ready . |
| 8 | His niece , Cathy Carne , found him when she came back to open the shop after lunch . |
| 9 | And er i he that , my father came back to run the business for my grandmother . |
| 10 | The French believed there were British officers aboard , and others think someone came back to fire the explosive , for there was more than an hour 's delay on the set time . |
| 11 | Occasionally , when he came back to Cambridge in later years , and especially when he came back to help the university elect another professor of divinity , he would be nostalgic , and say , ‘ I should like to have another go at being regius professor , . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I went out for the day , and came back to find the room full of thick smoke from Holmes ' pipe . |
| 14 | Maybe it is radar , coming back to confirm the solidity of objects around us . |
| 15 | Because this was a Thursday and he had never thought of going out on a Thursday before , and because of the previous Saturday night , coming back to collect the washing . |
| 16 | Archaelogists think it was probably done to stop the person 's evil spirit coming back to haunt the living . |
| 17 | According to Pflug , this is for historical reasons — during the 1980s , organisations focussed spending on mission-critical applications to the detriment of the less exciting back-office kit , but ‘ this is now coming back to haunt the industry ’ . |
| 18 | But he holed the long putt coming back to keep the match alive after Davies had safely made a par . |
| 19 | His solicitor Ben Pearson said last night : ‘ He is coming back to face the music . ’ |
| 20 | Furthermore [ thumma anna ] they are dead and can not come back to join the revenge squads in the Middle East and the four corners of the world . |
| 21 | Why come back to kill the kid ? ’ |
| 22 | that you 're gon na get er they realize you 're gon na come back to do the sale |
| 23 | It was kind of dark , and apparently what happened to this , towards the end of the period of parental investment , when the parents come back to feed the ducklings , they insist on the ducklings following them . |
| 24 | We 'll see them when we come back to collect the others . |