Example sentences of "the [noun pl] come back " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , when the bruises came back they were larger , more ragged .
2 The men in the flames come back to him night after night .
3 The erm the views coming back from the consultant were obviously er so follow occasions but not dramatically so .
4 Instead of scurrying away to hide in the weeds , the ducks came back .
5 It was strange having a sickle between her legs after all these months , but the reactions came back .
6 I mean if you stick it out with Hotpoint and hope that the hours come back , if the hours come back you 're gon na be earning a lot more money are n't ya ?
7 I mean if you stick it out with Hotpoint and hope that the hours come back , if the hours come back you 're gon na be earning a lot more money are n't ya ?
8 One , Wisal Wehbeh , said : ‘ I will never feel safe until militias are disbanded for good because the minute the Syrians go away , the militiamen come back . ’
9 It paid dividends and , as the scheme grew , many of the beneficiaries came back in order to help others .
10 That 's lovely when the hens come back into full flush like this
11 The songs came back to her now , and she thought of all the things she had n't had : a junior prom , dates , valentines , flowers .
12 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 .
13 After the war , the local people built some dikes , and as if from nowhere , the cranes came back .
14 A tow to the SS Reina Del Pacifico was followed by a wash in the Chief Petty Officers ' quarters , interrupted by two hits on the ship from a French battery , and when the canoeists came back on deck they found the canoe had been stripped by souvenir hunters , who now began asking for autographs .
15 They will find their enemy the skua already in residence , having arrived a week or so earlier and practising his piracy harrying kittiwakes or puffins until the terns come back .
16 Clapping their wings the gulls came back from the sea ,
17 The visitors came back into the game with two penalty goals by Graves and could have turned ends 9–9 had he been successful with his third penalty goal on half-time .
18 The man with the keys came back .
19 The keys came back through the post , without even a thank-you note .
20 The damp retreated down the walls , the gardens came back to life and there was fresh food in the kitchen .
21 ‘ You might not be saying that when the refugees come back from Australia , ’ Fergus said sourly .
22 When the parents came back , the erm , gaping behaviour was exactly the same .
23 You know that when birds are chicks in nest , they gape , their little mouths open wide , like this , and they , whenever the parents come back to the nest , wi with a worm or something , you see the little chicks , their little mouths wide open , they kind of reach out of the nest and , and , and try to their feeding .
24 It was kind of dark , and apparently what happened to this , towards the end of the period of parental investment , when the parents come back to feed the ducklings , they insist on the ducklings following them .
25 She wanted to put the phone down and pretend it was n't happening but the noises came back and a different voice said , ‘ Sergeant MacDonald is n't here at the moment .
26 Even in going concerns , the ghosts come back to haunt you through the flotsam of old files and folders , especially those emanating from some long-forgotten ‘ project ’ .
27 Very often , even though the planes came back safely , there would be dead and injured on board , and sometimes a damaged aircraft would have been unable to release its bombs either over the target or in the North Sea on the way home and would have to land back at base with the bombs still on board .
28 Er and I always used to think it must be extremely , they 'd hear them going out at night and you know then count the planes coming back .
29 I ca n't ever see the factories coming back that used to be with , you know they 're all be smaller work loads now
30 On December 11th , Meares and the dogs came back .
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