Example sentences of "they come back " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The ball is now in Scotland , we wait for them to come back , ’ he said . |
| 2 | My friend wanted to encourage them to come back , so we put the bales back where they had been and cut a suitable owl-sized hole in the wall . |
| 3 | We half expected them to come back a few days later , but they have never returned to the barn we prepared so painstakingly for them , although they are still sometimes seen in the vicinity . |
| 4 | ‘ I told them to come back in September . ’ |
| 5 | I know I should n't really cos I should n't expect them to come back at all , but it annoys me when |
| 6 | And er the foreman and bosses that knew people and they knew the circumstances and I suppose they put a word in and erm you know men were sort of stopped because er I mean , if a man had a house full of children or something , he 'd probably be the very last you know before he was sort of forced to g you know sacked or wh And I mean they were n't sacked in a sense , they was always ready there was a place ready for them to come back to there . |
| 7 | If you want them to come back , I said . |
| 8 | They always do that , the saucy wenches , they like to tease and make me beg for them to come back . |
| 9 | It 's quite exciting waiting for them to come back . |
| 10 | For Zoe 's sake it might be necessary for them to come back . |
| 11 | Also pensioners , there 's now more of an incentive for them to come back on to the labour market . |
| 12 | We all waited outside in St Martin 's Lane for 55 minutes , and to my surprise about 99 per cent of them came back in for the finish . ’ |
| 13 | Hot , bitter tears rolled down her cheeks , and with them came back the noise of the street . |
| 14 | None of them came back , you see : the Americans could n't spare the trucks and the farms were n't allowed to use their petrol for anything but getting food to market . |
| 15 | ‘ None of them came back , ’ he murmured . |
| 16 | ‘ None of them came back ? ’ |
| 17 | I 'd seen Chola and Mina setting out for the forest in the early morning , and three times during the day I 'd watched them coming back , stooped over and staggering under the weight of the enormous loads that spread across their backs , stretching three times broader than their shoulders and several feet above their heads . |
| 18 | I rarely see any of them coming back for more . ’ |
| 19 | In this situation it is obviously easier to find the fish than understand what the feature is that keeps them coming back to that swim . |
| 20 | We , we 've erected a metal barrier to prevent them coming back in . |
| 21 | They came back along the path that threaded a way between the sand dunes . |
| 22 | So as not to have to watch the empty road for the postman on the day that the results were due each girl went separately deep into the fields but they were n't able to stay alone for long ; and each time they came back to the road it was still empty . |
| 23 | A fortnight away by the sea and when they came back , the flat all ready and waiting for them . |
| 24 | Luckily they came back without any harm and the record was then re-released , re-promoted and interestingly enough , as far as I can recall , it 's one of the very early stereo singles . |
| 25 | They went without a hope and they came back , it seemed , without a friend , perilously close to reaching mother-in-law status as the comedians ' favourite butt . |
| 26 | Hats were flung into the air , the cheering reached higher and higher levels , and Dawn Run and Jonjo O'Neill were engulfed as they came back past the stands and up the walkway to the unsaddling enclosure in the parade ring . |
| 27 | They came back from a surprise David Currie opener to level in the second half through Steve Walsh . |
| 28 | When they came back it was dark . |
| 29 | ‘ I expect they came back the next day , or the next week ? ’ |
| 30 | The whole thing went undiscussed throughout 1982 , though people had been trying to have it discussed since they came back from their holidays in 1981 . ’ |