Example sentences of "have [adv] come back " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mitre template has since come back onto the market , but at prices like £18-£20 and considering the relatively small amount of work in which it is employed , some readers will no doubt feel that they could spend that money more profitably , so will want to make their own . |
| 2 | Lucker has obviously come back for me once , as there is a fresh note on the bed . |
| 3 | One British firm has just come back from France with almost £1m for its contribution towards landscaping . |
| 4 | ‘ He has just come back from Canada and he will go back to Canada . ’ |
| 5 | A film editor friend has just come back from a couple of weeks of yoga , a music producer I know goes to St James , Piccadilly , where they have spiritual talks on a Monday evening , while a designer friend does Chi-Kung , a Chinese movement like Tai-Chi , where you have to ‘ stand like a tree ’ . |
| 6 | I 've just chap , one of my chaps has just come back off a three days , confined spaces , responsible person course . |
| 7 | By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position . |
| 8 | One of the men has already come back to Britain voluntarily , the older one is fighting extradition |
| 9 | ‘ She has always come back — she loves Anna very much . |
| 10 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 11 | You 'd better come back to my place . |
| 12 | You 'd better come back up to town . |
| 13 | You 'd better come back to the farmhouse too , Seb . |
| 14 | She said you 'd woken , but when you did n't turn up I thought I 'd better come back to investigate . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You 'd better come back in the house and dry your shoes and socks , ’ said Betty . |
| 16 | Having recently came back from canoeing in Austria where canoeists , fishermen and landowners all enjoy what nature has provided , it certainly dates what canoeists have to put up with in parts of this country . |
| 17 | ‘ When Masklin comes back , he 's going to have somewhere to come back to . ’ |
| 18 | I ai n't checked them , I 've been on holiday I 've only come back today that 's been drawn has it ? |
| 19 | They had all come back for lunch but the women had rebelled at going out in the afternoon . |
| 20 | How clearly it had all come back to her — even the piping treble of her own childish voice . |
| 21 | The excitement had all come back . |
| 22 | She had emigrated with half her family to England when a baby , but they had all come back the night an auntie 's house in Derry had been seen on TV news , with the sofa flying from an upstairs window and loyalist thugs pouring petrol on the geraniums . |
| 23 | After all , I had only come back for a day or two to buy some good German clothes . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I 've just come back from France . |
| 26 | I 've I 've just come back on that D two stop three . |
| 27 | They 're always looking forward to going places they 've just come back from , or regretting doing things they have n't yet done . |
| 28 | And camping We 've just come back from Cornwall and it was very wet . |
| 29 | CATHERINE Robbie , if you 've just come back here to give me a fright because of something that happened ages ago , you 're mad . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |