Example sentences of "come back the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had emigrated with half her family to England when a baby , but they had all come back the night an auntie 's house in Derry had been seen on TV news , with the sofa flying from an upstairs window and loyalist thugs pouring petrol on the geraniums . |
| 2 | It had to be in on the 7th October and we came back the beginning of September , so it was a bit of a rush , and that 's really one of my feelings about it — I sat down and wrote it off the top of my head and not an awful lot is very considered . |
| 3 | Cos you remember we came round , we came back the night before the traction engine rally cos I did n't have time to get organized . |
| 4 | From a thousand voices came back the response : ‘ He is risen indeed , Alleluia ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ S'great ! ’ came back the response from King 's Reach Tower . |
| 6 | Hot , bitter tears rolled down her cheeks , and with them came back the noise of the street . |
| 7 | The watchman went to tell the local Chief and when he came back the body was gone . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't be so silly , ’ came back the answer on the crest of a belch . |
| 9 | ‘ Si , Señor , ’ came back the answer . |
| 10 | ‘ There 's no eventually about it , ’ came back the answer with the speed of a striking snake . |
| 11 | ‘ Who goes there ? ’ came back the riposte . |
| 12 | ‘ I can only ‘ ope so , lad , for your sake , ’ came back the corporal 's reply . |
| 13 | ‘ A bit shifty round t'eyes , ’ came back the reply . |
| 14 | ‘ No , maister , ’ came back the reply . |
| 15 | ‘ Why not ? ’ came back the reply . |
| 16 | In sing-song came back the reply : ‘ A bonkeleh is a greisa kuss ’ — accompanied by a noisy demonstratory kiss on the child 's forehead . |
| 17 | ‘ Tommy Prescott , ’ came back the reply . |
| 18 | ‘ And when she came back the situation was reversed ? |
| 19 | ‘ If I do n't come back the gas mask is no good against it . |