Example sentences of "had come back [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 So he placed an order with him for all these , and he had to come back to the factory , reorganize the factory , to meet this terrific order he 'd got for pencils , you see .
2 Toby had come back for the moment .
3 She had come back to the nursery ready to sympathize with Nannie about the underarm cramp caused by her inside .
4 After wartime service in the RAF he had come back to the School , and with his friends Mr. Norris and Mr. Hardie had helped to introduce Rugby to the School .
5 He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them .
6 It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field .
7 The woman had come back to the farm 's archway from where she and two men stared nervously up the road towards Frasnes .
8 He did not believe that Rose , if she had come back into the flat , would have let the cat out , or left it unfed .
9 Sam Somerville had come back into the room , shouting at the bugs : ‘ He 's gone .
10 Sandra had come back into the room , and somehow she was at Matthew 's side , holding his hand and weeping .
11 They had come back across the river and they were in a street close to the Embassy .
12 The three of them had come back down the tunnel to the entrance , with the man pushing Nona in front of him as a hostage .
13 So get in the old shed and then we got a load of swedes , we put it in rack and we come out like chips , chips of raw swede , and then sugar beet pulp , which had come back from the factory .
14 Unlike Eb , Josh had come back from the war in one piece , hale and hearty .
15 On Friday night , Tina phoned just after Jack had come back from the supermarket with the weekend shopping .
16 he had come back from the meeting with Patrick , and he had opened a bottle of whisky … automatically his had reached for it , found it between his legs , and he was raising it to his lips when the hurried knocking shook the door again .
17 Not surprisingly , the stars of the night series final were the player who had come back from the World Cup .
18 An attempt had been made to have the case relisted before the sentencer within the 28 day period during which variations in sentence are permitted by Supreme Court Act 1981 , S.4 ; , and if the matter had come back before the sentencer within that period it would have been open to him to review the sentence and impose a lawful sentence .
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