Example sentences of "[noun pl] came back [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were sold at auction , his library dispersed , but many of his , books came back to Lamb House as gifts to the Henry James Room . |
| 2 | His brothers came back with stories of heaving and hacking coal : even Daddy Ni still worked at the face : even Elfed , seen as the over-restraining killjoy , worked down there . |
| 3 | It paid dividends and , as the scheme grew , many of the beneficiaries came back in order to help others . |
| 4 | In terms of visiting and recorded contacts with other agencies , the specialist team displayed a clearer pattern of activities than the other teams : while cases remained open they visited more , and did not ‘ monitor only ’ ; if closed and re-opened , cases came back for re-assessment in fewer numbers ; and in both categories the rate of contacts with other agencies was higher . |
| 5 | The damp retreated down the walls , the gardens came back to life and there was fresh food in the kitchen . |
| 6 | A tow to the SS Reina Del Pacifico was followed by a wash in the Chief Petty Officers ' quarters , interrupted by two hits on the ship from a French battery , and when the canoeists came back on deck they found the canoe had been stripped by souvenir hunters , who now began asking for autographs . |
| 7 | With my cheek resting on the worn linoleum things came back into focus almost at once . |
| 8 | Or that girl with the Esquimau nose ? ) and not daring to spend the time she used to in study lest she be dangerously good , she now had hours and hours in which to brood and her old pains came back to life . |
| 9 | Kuwait , with a capacity of 2,000,000 bpd before the Iraqi occupation and subsequent fire damage , was thought to be producing only about 500,000 bpd , but planned to increase its output to 900,000 bpd by June 1992 and to 1,500,000 bpd by the end of the year as most of its fire-damaged wells came back on stream . |
| 10 | The echoes came back in waves , like a pebble rolling round a box , and from the wood across the river came the clattering of wood-pigeons ' wings among the branches . |
| 11 | The two men came back on Sunday night . |
| 12 | When the children came back from school they found that still nothing had changed . |
| 13 | It was n't badly paid , and she could be at home when the children came back from school , and get their tea . |
| 14 | Of the children , only Emma really grew up at Rhydoldog , although the others came back at weekends . |
| 15 | My thoughts came back to sea fishing at home : I 've always done quite well with lures in the sea , but it 's not exactly popular is it ? |
| 16 | Alan Buzza kicked 14 points as Wasps came back from West Hartlepool with a 19-6 victory . |