Example sentences of "came back [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one occasion , I recall someone commenting that so-and-so came back with 235 holes in his airplane . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Aprilia came back with similar feelings . |
| 4 | Les came back with equal honesty . |
| 5 | ‘ That kid came back with painted toenails and was very distressed . ’ |
| 6 | The 1992 Waverley Championships were swum at Cranleigh last weekend and Haslemere swimmers came back with 27 medals , just reward for the time and effort they put into their training . |
| 7 | Zambia came back with two plates of food and sat down again . |
| 8 | Paul Lane came back with two plates of scrambled eggs and buttered toast . |
| 9 | He came back with two slices of dark brown bread and a semi-transparent lump of fat on the top . |
| 10 | The tallest of the grey people , a man , came back with frozen roots . |
| 11 | Sometimes Mary went home , and came back with another scar or suppurating patch . |
| 12 | It seemed like every time I went out to walk the course I came back with wet feet . " |
| 13 | Jim came back with some clothes over his arms and stood at the door , while Bella very slowly told Albert to come and be interviewed next week for a job as a public-relations officer in their department store . |
| 14 | I went to Africa in '88 to find a diversification and we came back with this idea . |
| 15 | When Luke came back with fresh glasses , he sat on the arm of her chair . |
| 16 | but Sale came back with ten points in ten minutes and were still going strong when the whistle went … too close for comfort |
| 17 | The cherry and whites came back with 2 penalties . |
| 18 | There was a moment 's pause before his voice came back with added briskness . |
| 19 | Today , the remembrance of her visit to his home in Wimbledon and its harrowing aftermath came back with startling clarity . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Rupert went to the bar and came back with more drinks for them both and a thick and delicious-looking ham sandwich for himself . |
| 22 | And they came back for another fortnight of re-building ! |
| 23 | ( Three months later , to our mutual delight , The Mortgage Corporation came back for another £100 million . ) |
| 24 | Jack came back at that moment . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Then they marked half the webs with artificial stabilimenta and came back at two-hourly intervals to check on the longevity of the webs . |
| 27 | ‘ She never came back at all while Dad was alive . |
| 28 | I lived with my father , then when my father died I came back to this country . |
| 29 | I 've always wished that I never came back to this country . |
| 30 | But his son and his brother came back to this country , early in the seventeenth century , about sixteen five sixteen six . |