Example sentences of "[conj] came back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It started in the 38th minute with a straightforward close range blast after Wright destroyed the Ipswich defence and curled an audacious chip-shot that came back from the underside of the bar . |
| 2 | She headed away into tall grass , hid the baby and came back to the boat for the return trip to Tiger Haven . |
| 3 | About a week later , I finished work early one day and came back to the house . |
| 4 | Stephen had a meeting with the shop steward the following morning at 8.30 , and came back to the house afterwards shouting to Victor the butler for strong black coffee . |
| 5 | ‘ One spring I left my noviciate and came back to the farm . |
| 6 | Then he lost his nerve and rushed out of the flat and came back to the house to find me . ’ |
| 7 | He was awarded his first degree by the college where he was now a fellow , spent a year in the United States , and came back to the same college to complete his PhD . |
| 8 | Suddenly , to her relief , the telephone rang , Joanna picked it up , wrote down the message , and came back to the table , looking elated . |
| 9 | No , went on a hovercraft well wen went on the hovercraft and came back on a , a ferry on the boat . |
| 10 | Sykes went to Paris a couple of days before you did , and came back on the Monday . |
| 11 | He walked to his tool shed and came back with a garden spade . |
| 12 | Ian went off and came back with a box the same size as the ones that had been used for the train . |
| 13 | And last night she went to a do at the American Embassy and came back with a packet of chocolate cookies — er — biscuits , no less . ’ |
| 14 | Giving her his hanky , he went back to the restaurant and came back with a glass of iced water . |
| 15 | For example , they describe a child reading the following passage from " Black Beauty " : Then someone ran to our master 's house and came back with a gun ; presently there was a loud bang and a dreadful shriek , and then all was still ; the black horse moved no more . |
| 16 | The prince scraped up the money they had set aside to repair the roof again and Anna went off to India with some English acquaintances and stayed with the viceroy and came back with a ruby . |
| 17 | He left the library and came back with a riding crop . |
| 18 | He went into the small scullery and came back with a pomander , a ball of cloth stuffed with cloves and herbs . |
| 19 | Forne of Skirpenbeck took away the bowl , although that was not his business , and came back with a leg of pork , the burnt seaweed still sticking to it . |
| 20 | Some of the nomes scouted around the sheds and came back with a few vegetables that had been missed , but it was a pitifully small amount . |
| 21 | ‘ Tuesday was the day he went off in the van and came back with a bruised face ; presumably you 've got a record of the people he called on that day ? |
| 22 | She got up from her chair , went to a cupboard and came back with a crusty roll and a dish of butter . |
| 23 | So she dashed off to her room and came back with a piece of underwear that I had certainly never seen before . |
| 24 | County were battered and bruised , but they still had a bit of bounce left and came back with a goal from Dean Thomas which sent Nicky Hammond the wrong way , only because it took a deflection . |
| 25 | Zena Blair went shopping in the Northcott Centre last week and came back with a computer in her trolly . |
| 26 | There was some problem that one of them went back and talked to , presumably dad , perhaps mum though , erm and came back with a lovely engineered solution , but that did n't matter — they had fun doing it and they had fun trying these things and , believe me , the answer were ever so close to what the design I was amazed with what they produced . |
| 27 | Down she went and came back with the cups of tea and slices of cake on a tray . |
| 28 | So she was packed off to bloody England and came back with an Englishman . |
| 29 | He went off into the kitchen and came back with an apple pie . |
| 30 | When I was driving my new Granada in 1989 and dropped a friend down the road , a police car came past , saw the car with a black man driving it , circled round and came back for a second check . |