Example sentences of "came back [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ David became ‘ David Hockney ’ when he went to America and came back with blond hair and a great new self-confidence and a much more declared homosexuality . |
| 2 | Les came back with equal honesty . |
| 3 | Sometimes Mary went home , and came back with another scar or suppurating patch . |
| 4 | I went to Africa in '88 to find a diversification and we came back with this idea . |
| 5 | There was a moment 's pause before his voice came back with added briskness . |
| 6 | Today , the remembrance of her visit to his home in Wimbledon and its harrowing aftermath came back with startling clarity . |
| 7 | There was barely time for Dorothy Hardisty to draw breath before Mrs Brodowitz , now , understandably , ‘ in a state of nerves ’ , came back with more news . |
| 8 | And they came back for another fortnight of re-building ! |
| 9 | Jack came back at that moment . |
| 10 | Then the words rebounded back to my ears and I heard their sound and their meaning , and the pain came back at that moment , too , and it all made sense , the way a policeman 's knock on the door must make sense when you 've committed a crime . |
| 11 | ‘ She never came back at all while Dad was alive . |
| 12 | I lived with my father , then when my father died I came back to this country . |
| 13 | I 've always wished that I never came back to this country . |
| 14 | But his son and his brother came back to this country , early in the seventeenth century , about sixteen five sixteen six . |
| 15 | Luckily they came back without any harm and the record was then re-released , re-promoted and interestingly enough , as far as I can recall , it 's one of the very early stereo singles . |
| 16 | Some beautiful compositions wrinkled hands , a Rodin-like head next to the scroll of a cello are spoiled by strangely gauche captions , possibly intending to reproduce the sitters ' own words : ‘ He came back from apparent death twice . |
| 17 | I tell you why I get up , I get up because I came back from that conference . |
| 18 | Barcelona came back from European Cup despair to score a 2-1 win over Atletico Bilbao at the Nou Camp on Saturday . |
| 19 | Once upon a time , there was a small team from Gloucester called Tredworth , who came back from financial ruin to play in the Provincial Cup Final at Twickenham . |
| 20 | after you came back from military service did you carry on working art ? |
| 21 | Erm , he was , on the first and second day , he was second in class and sixty fifth over all and then he was , the next day he was sec still second in class and fifty fifth over all and then once the prop shaft or something 's broken , yeah I 've got a spare one , but the car came back in one bit so erm , he 's got an interview with T V S next week I think or the week after because erm when Rob lent him something that erm , did his , did a lot of it 's nothing to do with erm , they sponsored him two thousand pounds |