Example sentences of "come back [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had emigrated with half her family to England when a baby , but they had all come back the night an auntie 's house in Derry had been seen on TV news , with the sofa flying from an upstairs window and loyalist thugs pouring petrol on the geraniums . |
| 2 | ‘ A somewhat sadistic variation on Warner Baxter 's famous speech to Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street : ‘ You 're going out there a youngster , but you 've got to come back a star . ’ |
| 3 | Joe trotted off and came back a couple of minutes later , holding a parcel . |
| 4 | He came back a couple of weeks ago and this time approached me rather than Rex . |
| 5 | He came back a day or two later and they told him it definitely had been available before nineteen thirty-nine . ’ |
| 6 | But when she heard her children were being maltreated she came back a year later and fought to have them returned to her . |
| 7 | 67-year-old , took early retirement from engineers seven years ago , but came back a year later to become the head office caretaker . |
| 8 | But he did n't even wait to hear her protests that she was all right , and came back a minute later with two hospital pillows which he arranged for her , and she thought the faintly male , musky and intensely sensual smell of him as he bent over her was making her more faint than loss of blood . |
| 9 | Thomas went out , came back a moment later with an object draped in blue velvet which he positioned carefully on a low table . |
| 10 | My confidence came back a lot towards the end of the season . |
| 11 | She came back a week or so later to Farnham , plastered , in the literal sense , and indomitable . |
| 12 | small wheel , you know , with a white horse he came , you know on er granite cobbles horses hooves , er he went to the bottom along this circle to turn round as he came back every door were open and we and er heads out , they thought it was a fu , you know , horse |
| 13 | When they came back an hour and a quarter later , the meal seemed scarcely begun . |
| 14 | He came back an hour later , looking as smug as a cat who 'd stolen the cream . |
| 15 | It had to be in on the 7th October and we came back the beginning of September , so it was a bit of a rush , and that 's really one of my feelings about it — I sat down and wrote it off the top of my head and not an awful lot is very considered . |
| 16 | Cos you remember we came round , we came back the night before the traction engine rally cos I did n't have time to get organized . |
| 17 | From a thousand voices came back the response : ‘ He is risen indeed , Alleluia ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ S'great ! ’ came back the response from King 's Reach Tower . |
| 19 | She would send him off to some lecturing engagement with butter and other rations to give his hostess , and when he came back the rations would be found as a soggy mess in his pocket . |
| 20 | Hot , bitter tears rolled down her cheeks , and with them came back the noise of the street . |
| 21 | Everything that I do The other night when we came back the streets were deserted . |
| 22 | The watchman went to tell the local Chief and when he came back the body was gone . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Do n't be so silly , ’ came back the answer on the crest of a belch . |
| 24 | ‘ Si , Señor , ’ came back the answer . |
| 25 | ‘ There 's no eventually about it , ’ came back the answer with the speed of a striking snake . |
| 26 | ‘ Who goes there ? ’ came back the riposte . |
| 27 | ‘ I can only ‘ ope so , lad , for your sake , ’ came back the corporal 's reply . |
| 28 | ‘ A bit shifty round t'eyes , ’ came back the reply . |
| 29 | ‘ No , maister , ’ came back the reply . |
| 30 | ‘ Why not ? ’ came back the reply . |