Example sentences of "come back [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | time we 've come back with a need-to-be-paid is n't it ? |
| 2 | He has come back with a bang , and the film of Jurassic Park opens in July , which will obviously help his sales . |
| 3 | He 's come back with a report on the rest of the china and food too . |
| 4 | He had appointed the Tower Commission , he said , specifically to find out whether money had been generated from the arms sales beyond the ‘ twelve million two ’ , and , if so , who had done it ; but no one had come back with an answer . |
| 5 | Branfoot said : ‘ Matt has not come back with an answer but we are still in the early stages of negotiation . ’ |
| 6 | They had come back as a fleet , their sails bellying out under the south-westerly gale , the men shouting to each other across the water to compare catches , and their womenfolk waiting on the beach to help with the unloading and to make a start on the gutting and salting and packing . |
| 7 | ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity . |
| 8 | A film editor friend has just come back from a couple of weeks of yoga , a music producer I know goes to St James , Piccadilly , where they have spiritual talks on a Monday evening , while a designer friend does Chi-Kung , a Chinese movement like Tai-Chi , where you have to ‘ stand like a tree ’ . |
| 9 | By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel . |
| 10 | Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back . |
| 11 | Against the black walls there were of course changes in fashion , changes of music , changes in drink ; for instance for a couple of years you could get little liqueur glasses of violently alcoholic black coffee with pyramids of whipped cream on top after one of the barstaff had come back from an affair with a real sailor ( or so he said anyway ) in some German port , Germany somewhere . |
| 12 | Jenny 's come back in a couple of minutes . |
| 13 | Assume a kneeling position and then put one foot in front of the other to come back into a standing position . |
| 14 | ‘ If a woman wanted to maintain the right to come back into a job she would have to take part in in-service courses to keep up to date with changes in the working world . ’ |
| 15 | Coleman 's job was to get out on the streets and talk to people , to come back with a feel for what the bombing had achieved . |
| 16 | If the Druidic Priest is quick to come back with a reply of ‘ Your Master has given me permission to enter ’ or something equally convincing , the door will say , ‘ Oh , all right . |
| 17 | Of course , nobody has gone that far into space and sampled stardust to come back with a bag full of diamonds . |
| 18 | Where a problem seems obviously more complex they suggest that the client makes an appointment with an adviser to come back at a time when the bureau is officially closed to the public . |
| 19 | I had to come back to a degree agreeing with them . |
| 20 | The problem now is finding the right sort of staff reliable ladies with their own transport as more people realise how nice it is to come back to a house someone else has cleaned . ’ |
| 21 | And she was thrilled by that , for she found it hard to come back to a woman 's life in Egypt after tasting life in France . |
| 22 | A female was believed to come back after a night 's hunt and give her milk to whichever baby grabbed her teat first . |
| 23 | She came back as a ghost . ’ |
| 24 | But I came back as a Gnome . |
| 25 | So of course the poor Welshman with not having a sense of humour booked him , and poor Ben came back with a twenty-pound fine . |
| 26 | So the fox sat down by him and chatted until the young lord came back with a stag which he had shot . |
| 27 | Pinewood came back with a spurt as Paul Hudlass ( 2 ) and Paul Tyler put them 3–2 ahead . |
| 28 | Tranmere came back with a goal from sub Chris Malkin and could have easily snatched a draw . |
| 29 | United wobbled a little bit in the second half when Gillingham came back with a goal from Crown . |
| 30 | Just before half-time City came back with a goal from Ian Baird it was well made and well taken … food for thought for the United defence and of course Smith who started off in the directors box but was down on the touchline after this incident in which David Penney charged into Junior Bent … |