Example sentences of "came back to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She got out of bed and thought everything over very carefully , and although it was difficult to keep emotion out of it , she still came back to the self-same answer . |
| 2 | Time and time again discussions about tears came back to the central theme of the wish to be cared for-not all the time , the women with whom I talked were quite clear about that . |
| 3 | Finch finished the movement and then came back to the other room , thinking of how much time he had spent with Henry and Betty over the years . |
| 4 | Abruptly he came back to the present day , his wedding day . |
| 5 | Amid the confusion ( Vaux village is said to have changed hands thirteen times during the March fighting ) , word came back to the German Divisional Commander , bearing the imaginative name of von Guretzky-Cornitz , that the fort had actually been taken . |
| 6 | But the story of the Gesta did not end in 1109. just as later monks came back to the Flemish comital genealogies to keep them up to date and to add new material , so the Gesta attracted amplification . |
| 7 | It came back to the same thing . |
| 8 | He was awarded his first degree by the college where he was now a fellow , spent a year in the United States , and came back to the same college to complete his PhD . |
| 9 | Even more basic , though , was the pressure on a Celtic team playing for their dignity and self respect and who did so in such a convincing manner that all diagnoses of the final result came back to the same conundrum , where does the level of commitment shown against Rangers go when Liam Brady needs it most ? |
| 10 | I came back to the beautiful beach house from shopping . |
| 11 | Sounds came back to the watching eagles . |
| 12 | He stepped back , pausing to think , but the more he tried to invent reasonable explanations , the more he came back to the obvious truth : someone had put out the light and locked him in . |