Example sentences of "come back [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lessing consulted Dinah , who had come back tired from an evening full of accidents ; the scenery had fallen , the lesser lady had not come in on cue , the leading man had been a failure and she would have to find someone else . |
| 2 | By opportunities for learning that can be at depth , about learning about ourselves , but also the practical things like what do you say to a child whose father 's come back mutilated from war erm how do you write a letter to a bereaved person , and I think children I mean they are capable of doing this , I 've seen it with my own children , with some help they 're able to express quite deep emotions , you know , to somebody who 's had a bereavement , and if they can learn that now , you know , it 's going to be a lot easier later on . |
| 3 | Like a mother scolding her lost child , I thought , after he 's come back safe : just like Perkin with Mackie . |
| 4 | I had come back blind . |
| 5 | In the first case , elitism does not provide an explanation , being merely a loose term to describe a social category about which other features rather than the elite characteristic provide what explanation there is ; in the second case , the power elite looks remarkably like a social class , and elite explanation has come back full circle to its point of departure . |
| 6 | Finally she returned to her dorm , terrified not so much at the prospect of getting caught but because she had come back empty handed . |
| 7 | comes out , comes out at New Year 's Day , I was at home then and it erm going to come back New Year 's Day |
| 8 | If you got left behind by the Army you 'd be lucky to come back alive , and that 's no exaggeration . |
| 9 | I represent a crime , and if Eric was to come back stirring things up The Truth About Frank might come out . |
| 10 | ‘ Whatever weather we always seemed to come back filthy . |
| 11 | And we came and took the cows down and we came back weary or what ! |
| 12 | He washed his face in cold water and came back red-eyed but awake . |
| 13 | Went up there the following day and they came back armed with all sorts of things — knives and cudgels — and they went up there and a real fight developed . |
| 14 | Garvey 's voice came back warm and reassuring through the gloom , above Izzie 's struggling . |
| 15 | No one came back alive . |
| 16 | They came back empty-handed . |
| 17 | Brown Owl came back empty-handed . |
| 18 | He came back elated and poured some wine for Jane and himself . |
| 19 | collapsed but each time came back good as new |
| 20 | Jim took the letter to Cedric Mellings , and came back limp and weepy with happiness . |
| 21 | No , no like you , you sort of hang out with Patrick and Alan yeah for one night and you came back patronising ever met . |
| 22 | They knew she took bread to her mother , jam she had made from the blackcurrants at the foot of the garden but the basket always came back heavy with fresh eggs , a bunch of carrots from the bog , plums that they loved , sweet hard yellow apples . |
| 23 | In the morning Kāli took the cattle out to graze , but after a couple of hours she came back soaked to the skin . |
| 24 | He lost himself in its possibilities , its immensity , he went far out , and came back dazed , stunned by horizons , often with sketches he had done in a hurry and afterwards flew at with the axe of a black crayon , or a pen loaded with black ink , hacking at them fiercely , savagely , to kill off the sentimental and picturesque that was so much in vogue . |
| 25 | McInnes came back sharpish . |
| 26 | My husband came back excited and said he would be going out again late in the evening . |
| 27 | Fierce Eyes went outside and came back excited . |
| 28 | The test came back positive and Fiona 's doctor referred her to the top London expert in toxoplasma . |
| 29 | Hoomey came back white as a sheet , speechless . |
| 30 | You see , the great thing is , not that she came back empty , but the great thing is she came back ! |