Example sentences of "he come back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he came back to the house he refused to take a chair or a drink . |
| 2 | Abruptly he came back to the present day , his wedding day . |
| 3 | He came back to the table and sat down . |
| 4 | He stepped back , pausing to think , but the more he tried to invent reasonable explanations , the more he came back to the obvious truth : someone had put out the light and locked him in . |
| 5 | Now , he came back to the theme with a script loosely based on Poe poem , The Raven , but the connection was so loose that no one could discover what it was . |
| 6 | Slowly , blinking , he came back to the present . |
| 7 | ‘ They 're only vagabonds , not real Romanies , ’ Farmer Yatton told Cheryl and Angela-when he came back to the farmhouse after seeing the gipsies off his land . |
| 8 | ‘ What are they like ? ’ she asked when he came back to the table . |
| 9 | By the time he came back to the hotel it was dark . |
| 10 | His face was paper-white when he came back to the table . |
| 11 | He came back to the table and sat down . |
| 12 | The whole meeting looked up in relief as he came back to the saloon . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She was stirring the coffee in front of her , an innocent expression on her face as he came back to the table . |
| 15 | ‘ She always used to leave little warning signs when she was younger , ’ he said as he came back to the horses . |
| 16 | He ran from end to end of the yard and paused as he came back to the edge of the fire to peer down into a shattered mirror . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ He came back to the dressing room in tears , ’ Pat remembered for me . |
| 19 | ‘ I love him , Peter , ’ she whispered when he came back to the bedside with a glass of water . |
| 20 | He came back to the bedside and picked up an already opened bottle of red wine from the bedside table . |
| 21 | He came back to the house crying his eyes out . ’ |
| 22 | He became very dissatisfied and he came back to the U K. |
| 23 | ‘ He came back for the church 's centenary , ’ Mr Hickman recalled . |
| 24 | He came back down the stairs . |
| 25 | Taskopruzade 's statement that he came back at the request of a repentant sultan is , of course , highly doubtful in view of the fact that his departure and return seem certain to have occurred in the reigns of different sultans . |
| 26 | ‘ He was in Singapore last week , but he came back at the weekend , I know , ’ she observed innocently , hating herself for needing to know so badly . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Well erm he came back on the twenty fourth , no , never mind that we we 've been to-ing and fro-ing have Asian Associates and I and |
| 29 | The first thing that Daniel did when he came back into the room was to remove the record and switch off the gramophone . |
| 30 | As he came back into the hall , his face irregularly illuminated by its flame , she was overwhelmed by the dramatic beauty of his features . |