Example sentences of "come back to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Lachlan Watt had been about to leave Hamish and Antonia 's party when Fergus had fallen over and Fiona had decided it was time to take her husband home ; she had offered Lachy a lift back to his brother 's house , but when they 'd got there Fergus had seemed fast asleep , snoring loudly and taking no apparent notice of Fiona shaking him and shouting at him ; Lachy had volunteered to come back to the castle to help get Fergus out of the car and upstairs to bed ; Fiona would run Lachy back afterwards . |
| 32 | We had a few drinks and all thought he seemed a bit of a laugh so we asked him to come back to the shop with us and have a bit of a sing . |
| 33 | Our assistance breaks that barrier while allowing for the funds to come back to the Network when the company steps up production and is earning a return on its investment . |
| 34 | There are certain associates , who 're not going to use a rate book , there 's associates who er , because you 're doing a two appointment sale , will always have time to come back to the office and get a computer quote and go back with the right answer . |
| 35 | Attempts to encourage otters to come back to the River Thames are being aided by the building of a man-made home for them . |
| 36 | They were supposed to come back to the offices and do a three hour training |
| 37 | Jim had stomped downstairs wiping the blood off his face with a handkerchief and later it had been Jo and Lisa who had packed his bags and told him never to come back to the house . |
| 38 | The queasiness which had first compelled him to come back to the house that evening clawed him again , and kept him in the chair under her fond glances and bids to intimacy . |
| 39 | And I just need to come back to the point that my client certainly does n't support either of them . |
| 40 | Three of the men agreed to come back to the captain , and we put the others in my cave . |
| 41 | ‘ You 've got to come back to the hospital . |
| 42 | ‘ I 've been round the instrument circuit from A to Z , Alembic to Zon , and I always seem to come back to the P-bass , always . |
| 43 | Just before we leave it , er to come back to the nature it 's quite interesting , what these people found was they studied adders in I think Denmark and what they found was adders adders copulate , but females can store semen for months . |
| 44 | I 'm going to change subjects now , but if you want to come back to the Gulf , do feel free , the lines are open on three double one , one double one , but I in the meantime we 'll take a couple of calls on different subjects erm let's go to June from Shillingford , hello June . |
| 45 | It was n't until some years later that I came back to the question of the receptors and showed that the most dramatic effects involved the NMDA glutamate receptor I mentioned in the last chapter ( but wo n't discuss further here ) . |
| 46 | When Ludovico came back to the apartment with food for lunch and found her stripped to the waist , washing herself in the cracked kitchen sink , he immediately started making love to her , pushing her back until the taps dug into her . |
| 47 | Those who never came back to the Cotswold village can now at last be remembered . |
| 48 | By the time he came back to the hotel it was dark . |
| 49 | It happened like this : last Saturday , after the farewell party at Nanking University , I came back to the hotel , and packed my things ready to leave for Shanghai , then about 10.30 I started to feel sick , and it got worse and worse and went on and on until I had to wake up Comrade Wu at about 3.30 and ask her to get a doctor . |
| 50 | ‘ He came back to the dressing room in tears , ’ Pat remembered for me . |
| 51 | I went outside quietly and found a length of driftwood of the appropriate shape , came back to the Bunker , caught the snake by the neck with the piece of wood and bundled it into the first rusty can I could find which still had a lid . |
| 52 | The man came back to the telephone and said that if I was Linford Christie I was to go in and see them . |
| 53 | He turned away from the window , came back to the bed and sat down once again . |
| 54 | Gerrard came back to the dais and held his hands up for silence , and though there was still a good deal of noise he made himself heard above it . |
| 55 | With the new Conservative Government in 1979 , Ken Stowe moved from Downing Street to become Permanent Secretary in the Northern Ireland Office — not exactly a rest cure — and in 1981 came back to the DHSS . |
| 56 | The whole meeting looked up in relief as he came back to the saloon . |
| 57 | The Dili watchers came back to the Company headquarters to find the 2/2 was now linked to Brigadier Veale 's 200 survivors of Sparrow Force with a base at Mape , in the hills ( see map p. 77 ) . |
| 58 | Slowly , blinking , he came back to the present . |
| 59 | Jenna came back to the present rapidly and painfully as she tripped over a fallen and partially sunken log . |
| 60 | Sometimes she came back to the present with a bang to find that one of the girls had asked a question and had received no answer at all because Jenna 's gaze was fixed on the sky outside the window , her mind travelling the road to Paris and Alain . |