Example sentences of "coming back [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first type is that of new general orientations of a very wide sort , basic themes that keep coming back across the documents and hence can be said to characterize the Council 's mind and achievement as a whole . |
| 2 | Moggach was at Badock for a year , doing the things that students do : coming back across the Downs at night ( no money for bus fares ) , giving each other piggy backs : ‘ It was all very jolly and studenty and like students should be . ’ |
| 3 | Coming back across the yard he had heard the sound of a door swinging . |
| 4 | And then coming down from a point on King Street just to the left of the existing tree , if you can imagine that , and coming back across the marketplace |
| 5 | The thump of the back wheel coming back into the gutter brought Bob 's window down . |
| 6 | ‘ Come on , then , ’ said his Mum , coming back into the kitchen . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's them off , ’ declared Maggie , coming back into the kitchen . |
| 8 | ‘ I always think it sounds like murder , ’ trilled Gwendolen suddenly , coming back into the conversation . |
| 9 | Now those are arteries , that 's the pulmonary artery but it 's coming back to the heart okay , that 's the only time you 're going to find the rule reversed , arteries leave the heart , veins come back to the heart , and the only time that rule is reversed is when you 're linking the heart and the lungs through the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery , however , they are still carrying , the arteries are still carrying oxygen charged blood , yes , because it 's come fresh from the lungs so it 's still carrying nice red lovely oxygenated blood , yes , even though it 's coming back into the heart , that is because it 's come fresh from the lungs and the vein although it 's going in the opposite direction the way you normally expect it , is still carrying the old rotten , you know , used up blood , because it 's going back to the lungs to be recharged , do you understand it alright ? |
| 10 | Coming back into the present , I caught the Rolls Royce purr of central London , the purr of privilege , money , power — as far from my little cat 's dying purr as it is possible to be . |
| 11 | I add to the atmosphere by coming back into the room , closing the door and leaning against it , staring . |
| 12 | ‘ Child , your dress has split at the back , ’ said Robina , coming back into the room . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , I do n't mind , ’ said Ianthe , watching an old woman watering plants on a nearby roof ‘ How I long for a cup of tea ! ’ she went on , coming back into the room . |
| 14 | ‘ Ah , there it is , ’ Signe said , coming back into the room and taking the cold coffee from me . |
| 15 | ‘ Hello ’ said Bob , coming back into the office and holding out a bag of sweets to Tessa . |
| 16 | She remembered coming back into the office after spending the morning talking to a woman who had started her own cosmetics business in her kitchen , and the pink message slip on her desk , saying that Matthew Prescott had called her . |
| 17 | At least one citizen died through coming back into the town after a great thickness of ash had accumulated , and presumably during a lull in the eruption , either to loot or to rescue his own little hoard of gold . |
| 18 | Leeds started out the second half the way they played the first , but lost their way badly during the course with Oldham coming back into the game strongly . |
| 19 | Seve 's drive was 50 yards from the front of the green and about 40 yards from the middle of the Open course fairway , but he was on the right side — do n't forget all his careful planning on studying the rough beforehand — which means he 's now coming back into the wind . |
| 20 | But it is a bad time to be coming back into the side with results poor and confidence low . |
| 21 | Conversation is like playing tennis with a ball made of Krazy Putty , that keeps coming back over the net in a different shape . |
| 22 | ‘ No , you ca n't ! ’ said Thomas , coming back through the baize door positively pink with self-importance . |
| 23 | coming back through the side here |
| 24 | It really is I mean I I still feel guilty and it might sound daft to you , but I still feel guilty and what would my have done about I was down in London a few weeks ago for a meeting and I was coming back on the sleeper and I got the train to Euston and erm I came out at the wrong spot , so I had to walk out of Euston Underground and then round to go to Euston Station rather than going through |
| 25 | Erm it 's really just coming back on the issue of concealed household earlier . |
| 26 | and we 're , we 're going on the Friday afternoon and coming back on the Monday afternoon . |
| 27 | They must have been Steen coming back on the Saturday . |
| 28 | Right , now coming back to the girls . |
| 29 | Now coming back to the objective I say it leaves you on a high note then rather than the and that 's all I 'm gon na say tell them what you 're gon na tell them then tell them then tell them what you 've told them . |
| 30 | And er as I 've said before , I have n't seen a a barrel of oil burning and the heat and smoke that comes off that you consider the amount of oil that would have been in the separators on the platform at the time , I think it would have still have caused an awful lot of heat and an awful lot of smoke and fire , and er just shutting off the oil coming back to the platform maybe would n't have helped that much . |