Example sentences of "came back to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Those who never came back to the Cotswold village can now at last be remembered . |
| 4 | By the time he came back to the hotel it was dark . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ He came back to the dressing room in tears , ’ Pat remembered for me . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The man came back to the telephone and said that if I was Linford Christie I was to go in and see them . |
| 9 | He turned away from the window , came back to the bed and sat down once again . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The whole meeting looked up in relief as he came back to the saloon . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Slowly , blinking , he came back to the present . |
| 15 | Jenna came back to the present rapidly and painfully as she tripped over a fallen and partially sunken log . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Now , as she came back to the present , Lady Merchiston 's own eyes were on her in a compelling look , demanding an answer . |
| 18 | So as not to have to watch the empty road for the postman on the day that the results were due each girl went separately deep into the fields but they were n't able to stay alone for long ; and each time they came back to the road it was still empty . |
| 19 | ‘ She always used to leave little warning signs when she was younger , ’ he said as he came back to the horses . |
| 20 | ‘ I read Middle Eastern Languages , and spent a year in Turkey after Oxford , then came back to the Museum . |
| 21 | It transformed the way that the English dealt with the world outside Europe ; even though Charles 's son came back to the throne as Charles II in 1660 , the Republic changed the direction of English imperial policy and set a pattern followed at least until the death in 1714 of the last direct descendant of Charles I to sit on the throne . |
| 22 | His wife answered and I heard a background conversation before she came back to the phone . |
| 23 | Dawson came back to the phone two or three minutes later . |
| 24 | ‘ It looks as if she never came back to the phone . |
| 25 | She came back to the north with him after that and they lived together again for a time . |
| 26 | Then I came back to the courts at Bisham again before going back to school again at 3pm for history and then I come back and play again afterwards . |
| 27 | Then they came back to the families in batches , sometimes several hundred at a time . |
| 28 | In the first week of good weather , over half the acting members of the Miracle Pageant came back to the plague village , just to see how their old friend Lucier was faring . |
| 29 | He became very dissatisfied and he came back to the U K. |
| 30 | He ran from end to end of the yard and paused as he came back to the edge of the fire to peer down into a shattered mirror . |