Example sentences of "come back to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , take an accident like that hair in the gate , put it together with the coincidental gaze of a ghost , and it 's as if Fonda really has come back to life . |
| 2 | For this son of mine was dead and has come back to life ; he was lost and is found ( Luke 15:24 ) . |
| 3 | The father pleaded with the elder brother and tried to point out to him that it was only right to celebrate for it was as if the younger son had come back to life from the dead . |
| 4 | Politics has come back to life as well . |
| 5 | ‘ You look like a corpse that 's come back to life again . |
| 6 | She looked at the baby , also drenched in tears , and found he had come back to life . |
| 7 | While undergoing an operation his heart has stopped , but he has come back to life after having been declared dead and deposited in a coffin . |
| 8 | It was as if Lady Lavinia herself had come back to life , and sat staring at her out of the malevolence in her soul . |
| 9 | He told the doctors all about how my dad had come back to life in this grey cardigan and had told him the secrets of the universe . |
| 10 | My mitt 's just about come back to reality , last night when I was playing my trumpet right , it was numb , my fingers , I 'd got no feeling in it , it was as though it was dead . |
| 11 | Right so we 'll have to come back to keyboard and you can change it , I think . |
| 12 | When , sensing that he had left her alone in more ways than one , the woman asked him to come back to bed , he had not turned to look at her but instead remained silent a moment longer . |
| 13 | She called to Plummer to come back to bed but he did n't answer . |
| 14 | He wanted to tell her to come back to bed , to put the child down now he was quiet . |
| 15 | But to come back to enmity . |
| 16 | Just to come back to Councillor point . |
| 17 | Was n't there some talk about Tricia wanting to come back to work ? |
| 18 | Before we had we bought a house and so I really had to come back to work because we needed my wages and erm the creche was just being brought out so I knew there was a chance of coming back . |
| 19 | Sat waiting for it to come back to life . |
| 20 | In particular , I was waiting for the hedgehog that made its nest at the end of our garden last autumn to come back to life . |
| 21 | IF WILLIAM CAXTON , the father of British printing , were to come back to life after 500 years in the grave , he would see a lot of changes . |
| 22 | Soon it subsides and he seems to come back to life . |
| 23 | I would er agree actually with what I think Mr was a saying on balance , that 's it 's best to go with the bit that you 've got rather than hold that up to , to er to come back to Road later . |
| 24 | Shout , they 'd shout something but er well since we 've been living up here , my mother used to give , the man used to come for the order for the grocery , the baker used to come round , the milk used to come round , they all used to come round at she 'd ha she did n't have go out for heavy loads of stuff to bring in it was all delivered , but when they started some new technique of er of ordering by computer , it 's going to come back to square one again you know , they 'll be delivering stuff in the same jolly old way hey . |
| 25 | I 'd like to come back to policy on migration chair , and I 'm grateful to Mr for pointing out that nineteen eighty is thirteen years ag away and things have moved on in every respect demographically . |
| 26 | Slowly she began to come back to reality , and realise that she had been entirely at his mercy . |
| 27 | Having made a tentative decision to come back to nursing , it would be similarly useful to compare your reasons for doing so in the light of the previous exercise . |
| 28 | So , no sooner did the record go into the charts and we were going ‘ yeah , this is it — hooray — we 're taking off ’ , they dropped the record and we had to wait for the guys to come back to earth . |
| 29 | " Oh , thank you , beautiful Dawn Maiden , but once I am down there I sha n't wish to come back to earth ! " |
| 30 | One always seems to come back to climate as the primary explanation of the sort of phenomena I have been discussing , but for the ultimate control , sooner or later , we must face the possibility of an extra-terrestrial cause , though in most geological circles one seems to be expected to blush when doing so . |