Example sentences of "[noun prp] come back " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sat in the parlour , on the evening of Saturday , September 2nd , waiting for Menzies ' man Allan Stewart to come back with the news from Blair Atoll . |
| 2 | Everyone in Durham to whom Bevir talked wanted Ramsey to come back . |
| 3 | ‘ It is why my family sacrificed a nice life in Tenerife to come back to the cold of Britain four years ago . |
| 4 | He was back to his best after a series of poor displays and scored a goal as he inspired Lazio to come back from two goals down to snatch a 2-2 draw . |
| 5 | Georgina came back with a grey rag , sat down and watched her brother poke his fingers in the cat 's ears . |
| 6 | Cadfael came back to his workshop after supper , to make his final round for the night , damp down his brazier to burn slowly until morning , and make sure all his jars were covered and all his bottles and flasks stoppered securely . |
| 7 | Edward came back struggling with a load of planks , and I got up to help him . |
| 8 | Edward came back , dropped the planks , and stared at the kiln as into a mirror of his own increasing frustration . |
| 9 | Richard came back from work that evening later than he had hoped . |
| 10 | Sir Richard came back with you . |
| 11 | ‘ Did you care when you walked out on me the day that you told me about the notes and the wine glass , and then Rebecca came back to the office ? |
| 12 | And Phillips found Collimore a willing target then but Hill came back to deny it . |
| 13 | The longcase clock in the hall began its silver chiming and Sally with Hawkins came back with several dusty port bottles . |
| 14 | When Blyth came back the next year he was even more unpleasant than before , having lost his left leg from above the knee in a road accident ( the boy he was playing'chicken ’ with was killed ) . |
| 15 | In the result when Mr. S. came back and resumed his use of the computer , the invoice it printed out charged the sum of £204.76 plus VAT , instead of the proper sum of £710.96 plus VAT . |
| 16 | Several times Paul Guillaume came back to the house to have his portrait painted in a discreet , dark suit , starched collar and tie , jaunty trilby hat , a gloved hand languidly holding a cigarette and thinly parted lips which seem to be saying ‘ I am a man of exquisite taste ’ . |
| 17 | Although the break was a nasty one , McCracken came back successfully at the beginning of 1921–22 when the Palace made their debut in Division Two and he played more games for us in that division than anyone else during our four year tenure there 1921–25 . |
| 18 | Woolley came back with a wooden model of a biplane . |
| 19 | Basingstoke came back again and scored from a scrum . |
| 20 | Other pictures took the place of these ; Neil 's tent , not far up the brae , and the possibility not only , at worst , of having its shelter for the night , but of my seeing from that vantage point when Neil came back with his boat . |
| 21 | Branwell came back two weeks later , his face white , his clothes dirty . |
| 22 | When David came back to Hawkers a week or so later , he found on his desk a very large can of tomato juice . |
| 23 | David came back as she was getting out of the bath . |
| 24 | At last David came back and stood looking down at her . |
| 25 | ‘ All right , ’ he said , kissing her cheek as David came back towards them with the tickets . |
| 26 | David came back to Scotland in 1968 to take up a post as an assistant to the director of education with the City of Edinburgh Corporation . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , apparently she only has a short time to live ; David came back to be with her — he 's even living at Brooklands . ’ |
| 28 | A few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune . |
| 29 | Wilfrid came back again in 681 , driven out from the rest of England by Ecgfrith of Northumbria . |
| 30 | Pondering this mysterious complaint , Mungo had still not found an opening gambit when Mary Ann came back beaming , with the tea-tray . |