Example sentences of "came back and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not as such so they 're pressing for an answer , the factory , but erm , he came back and said we 'd need firm prices , per kilo price , lump sum price not acceptable , customer offer of sixteen Deutschmark per kilo from , for twelve to fourteen with delivery , your request for those credit verified five months not acceptable , you offer to deliver in eight weeks in which case and we 'd get till twelve weeks , please confirm . |
| 2 | But then they came back and said it was changed to ‘ Everything We Do Is Driven By You ’ and my initial thought was ‘ Yuk , I do n't think I can do anything with that either , ’ because it just sounded like motor cars and I 'm not interested in singing songs about motor cars . |
| 3 | They came back and said there were three more like her . ’ |
| 4 | So presumably he 's actually believing these ideas I mean I would 've thought he , he if he came back and said there 's tension , there 's , you know it was , between the two classes and we go in and we direct them in a certain way , put the right ideas in their mind , that we can harness the revolution . |
| 5 | In the autumn of 1972 , Michael came back and said he wanted to do it , so we took it from there . ’ |
| 6 | You came back and said you wanted them to have thirteen weeks . |
| 7 | Right , the problem is that I ca n't seem to get through on the telephone , I phoned and her secretary came back and said you 've to phone and she gave me a guy 's name like and I got a number for him so I phoned it , ah he works in our Edinburgh office I phoned the Edinburgh office . |
| 8 | I came back and saw it was true : there is nothing in the shops . ’ |
| 9 | He was admiring a stylish flower arrangement , observing how cunningly a spray of jasmine had been made to tremble half in , half out of the vase and trail against the console table , when the girl came back and told him Mr Vigo would see him now . |
| 10 | Adrian asked them the way to Woodbrook , then came back and told me that there was a ruined castle behind the shop . |
| 11 | Later in the afternoon the sheriff 's men came back and dragged me up before the justices . |
| 12 | But to bring out questions , things that you felt in your groups that you would like to perhaps ask the others about , or came back and ask me , any particular points that you to read on or were n't clear when you were talking in a group , or things that you felt the others might you know , to talk about . |
| 13 | So I came back and let myself in . |
| 14 | He came back and hugged her for a while . |
| 15 | Atkinson said : ‘ He has not had the best of seasons so far and probably felt he was being frozen out , but He came back and had his best game for us against Arsenal . ’ |
| 16 | She merely went off to the nursery for a brief inspection , came back and pronounced him gorgeous . |
| 17 | They asked me a few questions and withdrew to grunt amongst themselves , then came back and welcomed me as one of them . |
| 18 | Tony came back and handed her a tall glass of iced Pimm 's filled with fruit , then flopped on to the sun-lounger beside her , smiling in his uncomplicated way . |
| 19 | I threw a brick through the window , ran away and then came back and did it again . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Well Peter I sa la one night last week oh it was the week before I was going up past and this fella was walking and he was fucking staggering and he was going on the road and Peter 's came back and fucking him . |
| 22 | What if he came back and caught them now ? |
| 23 | If it was n't , and he came back and caught me , then I 'd have to fall back on my story as an over-enthusiastic games player . |
| 24 | ‘ Then she came back and devastated it . |
| 25 | She was really pleased when she came back and found him fighting fit , even though he was still using one wing as a crutch to support his crooked leg . |
| 26 | ‘ If he came back and found we 'd made off by ourselves , he 'd go back to Tara and tell them we 'd reneged on the bargain , ’ finished Snodgrass . |