Example sentences of "[subord] he came back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 'd hold out for a while but it would always be made up after he came back with the roses . |
| 2 | Elliott Gabellah , vice president of the Rhodesian ANC , met us the day after he came back from the independence celebrations . |
| 3 | The first thing that Daniel did when he came back into the room was to remove the record and switch off the gramophone . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been awake for over an hour , ’ she said , sitting on the edge of the bed , when he came back into the bedroom . |
| 5 | Christina was dressed in shorts and a loose cotton shirt when he came back into the room . |
| 6 | When he came back into the doorway of the room where she waited , he had a duffle coat over his arm , and was carrying a folding garden-bed with a rigid aluminium frame and a patterned canvas cover printed with brilliant sunflowers . |
| 7 | He was soothing someone , his voice gentle , and when he came back into the room there was an altogether different look on his face . |
| 8 | So I told him that when he came back with the policeman . |
| 9 | But my father went to America just after the war , and when he came back on the Queen Mary , he brought my mother some nylons , which were not obtainable in Britain at that time . |
| 10 | When he came back to the house he refused to take a chair or a drink . |
| 11 | His face was paper-white when he came back to the table . |
| 12 | He felt rather shy and silly , when he came back to the table with Lalage , skipping along and grabbing for his hand as she went . |
| 13 | ‘ No , I saw the bruise when he came back to the shop on Tuesday evening and I asked him what he 'd done to himself . |
| 14 | ‘ I love him , Peter , ’ she whispered when he came back to the bedside with a glass of water . |
| 15 | Joe found her there when he came back from the vegetable field . |
| 16 | The portal was commissioned by Gaston IV , the then Count of Béarn , when he came back from the First Crusade . |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't know what to do when he came back from the zone . |
| 18 | But , always kind : " Well , Robert , dear fellow , " she crooned when he came back from the bar ( where he had bought a third bottle of champagne ) . |
| 19 | erm And erm when he came back after the war , he actually was so much involved on the parliamentarian side he had to leave Oxford during the war , but when he came back he built a school in the city which was actually in the Guildhall courtyard , it was built round the courtyard , and that remained a free school , for the city 's boys right up to the end of the 19th century . |
| 20 | When he came back in the evening he sat for a long time gazing out across the V-shaped valley leading south . |
| 21 | His premiership appeared not so much to be running out as running down , Few believed that when he came back in the autumn he would be able to do more than coast gently and desultorily along for another six months . |
| 22 | Noticed when he came back in the afternoon , while he was talking to Rose . |
| 23 | As he came back into the hall , his face irregularly illuminated by its flame , she was overwhelmed by the dramatic beauty of his features . |
| 24 | Evelyn asked as he came back into the room . |
| 25 | Battler looked at him eagerly as he came back into the room . |
| 26 | She was still silently pondering this as he came back into the room and smiled across at his mother . |
| 27 | Alex saw him looking at it as he came back with the glasses . |
| 28 | The whole meeting looked up in relief as he came back to the saloon . |
| 29 | She was stirring the coffee in front of her , an innocent expression on her face as he came back to the table . |
| 30 | ‘ She always used to leave little warning signs when she was younger , ’ he said as he came back to the horses . |