Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] back " in BNC.
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| 31 | Her eyes came back to meet his , and a tentative smile glimmered on her lips . |
| 32 | Aycliffe 's eyes came back to her face . |
| 33 | Her eyes came back to her father 's face and she drew a breath . |
| 34 | From a thousand voices came back the response : ‘ He is risen indeed , Alleluia ! ’ |
| 35 | Briefly Bodie explained what was going to happen : that Liz was going to be smuggled into the house from the taxi that would take the family home , and she was there just to be on the safe side , in case the man who had killed their two pets came back late at night . |
| 36 | After the war , the local people built some dikes , and as if from nowhere , the cranes came back . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | His brothers came back with stories of heaving and hacking coal : even Daddy Ni still worked at the face : even Elfed , seen as the over-restraining killjoy , worked down there . |
| 39 | Her words came back to me as I pictured her sitting by the fire in her tiny croft . |
| 40 | Christy 's words came back when Sandy was putts for birdie on the 12th and 13th but misses them both . |
| 41 | Doyle 's words came back to him . |
| 42 | But the next time Cecilia saw Daphne Bleech-Palmer Tina 's words came back to her and she was for a while shy and constrained . |
| 43 | I was beginning to understand a lot I 'd never known about before , and for the first time that day Toby 's fatal unthinking words came back to me : " One day she 'll have a baby without ever having understood what love really means . " |
| 44 | As she began each one , Mum 's words came back to her and she felt her cheeks growing hot . |
| 45 | The difference was that it took a year before Chamberlain 's words came back to haunt him . |
| 46 | Gilbert Racy 's words came back to her . |
| 47 | Unbidden , Suzie 's words came back to her . |
| 48 | Unbidden , Antoinette 's angry words came back into her mind , and niggled there . |
| 49 | It paid dividends and , as the scheme grew , many of the beneficiaries came back in order to help others . |
| 50 | And then of course , this was all blown when th the raids stopped for a quite a long time , all these bloody kids came back ! |
| 51 | ‘ Well , 14/ 20th Hussars came back off exercise with a lot of dead equipment and 2nd Field Regiment has just finished a major inspection in preparation for firing camp starting in three weeks . |
| 52 | Scowling , he glanced at Silvia who , so far , had n't spoken , then his dark eyes darted back to Jeff once more . |
| 53 | Her eyes darted back to his and she studied him before parting her lips to give him his answer . |
| 54 | He frowned , then his eyes darted back to Jenny . |
| 55 | When his lips came back to hers , Jenna was soft and pliant , no resistance in her at all , and he rolled on to his back , pulling her over him fiercely and cupped her hot face in strong fingers . |
| 56 | Neither of my couriers came back . ’ |
| 57 | Her doubts came back . |
| 58 | Now that she was thinking more rationally , all the old doubts came back , and she found it hard to believe that she could have behaved so rashly . |
| 59 | When they heard it the sepoys threw back their heads and uttered a howl so piercing , so harrowing that every window in the Residency must have dissolved if they had not been already broken . |
| 60 | And so the words turned back on themselves , phrases reappeared , seeming to confirm other phrases , merely repeating themselves , clicking into place with a semblance of logic which nicely disguised the truth that all these words were nothing but a glittering fabric which hovered above the ground , unwinding endlessly , slipping between the fingers , beguiling like a mirage , taking on whatever shape the conjuror wanted , and leading nowhere . |