Example sentences of "come back [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I represent a crime , and if Eric was to come back stirring things up The Truth About Frank might come out . |
| 2 | Tobermore came back 11 minutes later to level the score with a brilliant kick by Mark Patterson from the edge of the box to the right corner of the net . |
| 3 | Her mum 's 30-year-old wedding dress , altered to fit Joanne , was ruined at the cleaners and came back two inches shorter than when it went . |
| 4 | My dogs were frantic , and so was I , I hauled one last time , the line came back two centimetres , the hook came free and the dogs roared away . |
| 5 | Branwell came back two weeks later , his face white , his clothes dirty . |
| 6 | Tony came back 10 days later looking happier , and reported that he had checked the newspapers regularly and had sent off several applications for jobs . |
| 7 | Fellow of Balliol , went to Harvard in his late thirties , came back five years ago . |
| 8 | ‘ One fishermen told me he saw seals in the area where he shot 20 creels and when he came back 20 minutes later they were all robbed . |
| 9 | He came back several times , quite convinced that only a little greater effort would supply him with the treat he had in mind . |
| 10 | One or two families came back several times , and we exchanged cards and news at Christmas . |
| 11 | When he came back several minutes later , he was still smiling . |
| 12 | I have n't stayed in for about two months , about eight weeks , not one night , and he goes , ‘ I think you should stay in at least one ’ , and I goes , ‘ If you think I 'm staying in then you get lost , because I 'm not staying in this flaming house ’ , and he goes , ‘ You 're staying when I tell you to ’ , and I goes , ‘ I wo n't ’ , and I walked out and came back ten minutes later and said , ‘ I 'm going out , all right ? ’ and he goes , ‘ Okay ’ , and he give me some money to go out and come up here [ to the youth club ] . |
| 13 | We had that one nil down and we thought that was it , there was and then they came back seven goals |
| 14 | But he came back three days later crying his eyes out and begging me to forgive him , he looked like a helpless puppy . |
| 15 | ‘ If someone comes in with a litter of four-month-old puppies and I take them in , would you believe they just come back six months later with the bitch 's next log ! |
| 16 | He would have recognized the place if he had left at once and come back six months later . |
| 17 | He had seen his earliest pupils , as had my father , either not come back at all , or come back broken men . |
| 18 | we have , you 've got to make a model , yeah and that 's mine , you have to get two men and two children across the river , you 've got one and they ca n't swim , this is my one , two boys go across , one boy comes back , one man goes across , the other boy comes back , two boys go across , one boy comes back , one man goes across the other boy comes back two boys go across , I need to show that on , on . |
| 19 | He comes back two weeks later saying that he has been given the sack . |