Example sentences of "[verb] come back [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That she has come back into our world again : |
| 2 | Let's assume that you 've come back into your office from the training session , and you go up to your handset and you rock it . |
| 3 | The callous incident of the heat sink … but then : hands linked in the Tunnel of Terror … the upper-habber had come back for his two companions , for whatever reason … |
| 4 | She was quite the most attractive thing in the café now that the colour had come back to her face and she had regained her normal cheerful manner . |
| 5 | That , she thought , was as good an idea as any , and on silent feet she went as swiftly as she had come back to her kitchen . |
| 6 | She turned her head a little , and he saw that the calm had come back to her face , but now there was light and colour in it , as if the blood curbed and slowed to solitude and stillness had begun to flow again . |
| 7 | I am told that other people have had similar experiences but are not prepared to enlarge on their stories ; perhaps they had seen a ghost of a long-gone railwayman who had worked in the area years ago and had come back to his earthly place of employment ! |
| 8 | When she had once laughingly asked , ‘ Who supplies the meat , Father , and the clothes that go between the hats and the shoes ? ’ he had come back with his usual answer to her , ‘ You 're too sharp by half ; you 'll cut yourself one of these days . ’ |
| 9 | The colour had come back into her cheeks and Elizabeth thought how pretty she looked . |
| 10 | Her teeth stopped chattering , and when Matthew came back with the tea and the whisky , he remarked that the colour had come back into her face . |
| 11 | He did n't know why these thoughts had come back into his mind now . |
| 12 | Colour had come back into his cheeks , burning on the notable bones , a little hectic , a little fevered . |