Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] come back " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said you 'd woken , but when you did n't turn up I thought I 'd better come back to investigate . ’ |
| 2 | I 've just come back from France . |
| 3 | I 've I 've just come back on that D two stop three . |
| 4 | ‘ Dear Loretta , ’ she read , ‘ I 've just come back from an official trip to Italy , and I squeezed in a visit to a peace camp while I was there . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've just come back from the Thomas Garlands ’ place , sir . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped |
| 7 | I 've been working abroad for the last twenty years , I 've just come back to the U K and my family 's all died , and I do n't know anybody , and I 'm going to start off working here . |
| 8 | No I 've just come back to it and I find my lunch box overflowing with crisp packets . |
| 9 | I ai n't checked them , I 've been on holiday I 've only come back today that 's been drawn has it ? |
| 10 | ‘ I have just come back from lecturing in New York and I am off to lecture in Hong Kong . |
| 11 | ‘ I have just come back from talking to Alfred and I telephoned Maurice . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ People are always trying to put me down and I have always come back better . ’ |
| 13 | Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back . |
| 14 | It is all the fault of speculators who used the cars as a means of making mega-bucks , like buying paintings or antiques , rather than as personal playthings. 11 MC2966 meteoric rise in the price of even the most mundane of so-called classic motorcars , such as Morris Minors and Volkswagen Beetles , which have now come back down to earth with a thud . |
| 15 | ‘ She has always come back — she loves Anna very much . |
| 16 | ‘ You 'd better come back in the house and dry your shoes and socks , ’ said Betty . |
| 17 | CATHERINE Robbie , if you 've just come back here to give me a fright because of something that happened ages ago , you 're mad . |
| 18 | Neither the size of the orchestras nor the size of the stage seems to have deterred you from staging major works by Verdi — Un ballo in maschera , for instance , which you 've now come back to after fifty years — Wagner , and Strauss . |
| 19 | Others present included Lord David Cecil , who had lately come back to Oxford to teach English Literature at New College , and Adam Fox , the college chaplain . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | When she had finished she turned to Nara , who had just come back with the things she needed and was peering round the door , as if he was too scared of her magic to come right in . |
| 22 | At last week-end 's ICA conference , the film generated a single comment , from a producer on Channel 4 's Out series , Claire Beavan , who had just come back from America where she was making a programme about Hollywood homophobia . |
| 23 | With no casualties to deal with , but with new staff and better equipment our doctors settled down to work with a will for the children from ‘ Peabody buildings ’ at the back of the hospital who had either come back from evacuation , or who would not go anyway . |
| 24 | He took up his claret , drank , and moved to an anecdote which he had found scarcely ever failed and would surely , he was convinced , see him through this supper party as the man of wide travel , wide curiosity , the aristocratic rover who had finally come back home to live by the more profound , more refined things of life . |
| 25 | We met a number of young field-workers and others who had recently come back to work in Lewis and Harris , and were most impressed by their ability and devotion . |
| 26 | She promised to find out , and she 's just come back with the results . |
| 27 | I 'll er for years she 's just come back and she 's I said I want . |
| 28 | An Oxford aid worker who 's just come back from the Croatian capital Zagreb , says the situation there is getting out of hand . |
| 29 | And camping We 've just come back from Cornwall and it was very wet . |
| 30 | We 've just come back from Chile , where chemical pollution , factory fishing , and poverty are the everyday reality facing fishermen , slowly destroying their ability to make a living and support their families . |