Example sentences of "[conj] come back [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there is an attempt to set up a message desk , where if your phone , at the moment , switchboard will put calls through to you , if you do n't answer by a certain number of rings , it will either divert to another number or come back to the switchboard . |
| 2 | It started in the 38th minute with a straightforward close range blast after Wright destroyed the Ipswich defence and curled an audacious chip-shot that came back from the underside of the bar . |
| 3 | So my the , in my mind the best way forward is for this council to promote the right to buy and I fully support this motion and I would urge members of this council to ignore the report that comes back from the housing committee . |
| 4 | About a week later , I finished work early one day and came back to the house . |
| 5 | Stephen had a meeting with the shop steward the following morning at 8.30 , and came back to the house afterwards shouting to Victor the butler for strong black coffee . |
| 6 | Then he lost his nerve and rushed out of the flat and came back to the house to find me . ’ |
| 7 | Suddenly , to her relief , the telephone rang , Joanna picked it up , wrote down the message , and came back to the table , looking elated . |
| 8 | She headed away into tall grass , hid the baby and came back to the boat for the return trip to Tiger Haven . |
| 9 | ‘ One spring I left my noviciate and came back to the farm . |
| 10 | Garry answered it and came back into the kitchen with two policemen . |
| 11 | The old woman said something and Simon turned and came back into the room and stood by the deerskin pallet on which Hugh was lying . |
| 12 | The other people heard the noise of the shot and came back into the room . |
| 13 | Marcus put the thing down without doing any speaking and came back into the room . |
| 14 | As David caught sight of her he left the other two and came back into the foyer . |
| 15 | ‘ Of course , ’ he said calmly and came back across the room . |
| 16 | Her mother of course was aware that fifteen does not relish the solitude that fifty does , and came back from the village one day when Peony had been particularly silent and lumpish , with the news that Mrs Price who kept an antique shop had her grandchildren staying with her , and she was invited to go round and play tennis with them and have tea . |
| 17 | Erm , I have I think cousin , erm , who was in the Air Force during the war , and came back from the Air Force with a child . |
| 18 | ‘ You went out and came back by the yard door ? ’ |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | And coming back from the sea , laden with fish for their young , they can only find safety in their nest holes . |
| 21 | She was out every evening , sometimes staying away all night and coming back in the afternoon only to tart herself up for the next evening away . |
| 22 | Listen , have you got to stay on at the track , or is it possible for you to leave and come back to the hotel ? ’ |
| 23 | Loreto did try and come back into the game , but they relied on the breakaway too much with Barnwell and O'Neill always on their own , and lacking the support necessary to cause problems for Portadown . |
| 24 | And come back to the Vicarage and have tea with me . |
| 25 | However , it got so bad one day — I think he had been discussing this with his father because he used to go home sometimes at the weekends and come back to the flat on Monday — and he came in one day and said , ‘ OK , it 's going to be cabaret ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ Obviously , as a Liverpool fan , you have to be worried but I 'm perfectly hopeful that we 'll get through this and come back as the force that we always have been . ’ |
| 27 | twisted , warped , it 's in a sense it 's exactly the same as the circle , you know you draw the circle it 's a line that starts there and goes perfectly round and comes back to the starting point , it 's exactly the same as that , but it 's been pushed out at the edges , it 's been dented in here , it 's not recognisable now as that same circle , although it 's what it is , and you see what , what has happened is although we 've sinned , although we 've come short of God 's plan , God has n't destroyed the whole thing , he could so easily just taken up the human life and crumple it up and thrown it on the heap , said finished with them , ca n't be bothered , I 'll start all over again with new people , I 'll have a new creation , well he did have a new creation , but he kept that same creation , he said I 'm gon na work on it , I 'm gon na do something with it , I 'm gon na restore it , I 'm gon na ransom it , I 'm gon na redeem it , I 'm gon na make it again , not just like it was , but I 'm gon na make it even more wonderful and more beautiful . |
| 28 | In the end , of course , the theory is that the bird gets used to the food being there and comes back at the wag of a finger . |
| 29 | When she married she moved away , but comes back to the village with her husband and son for the annual feast — as does her sister and members of other families who have moved . |