Example sentences of "come back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had come back across the river and they were in a street close to the Embassy . |
| 2 | Sam Somerville had come back into the room , shouting at the bugs : ‘ He 's gone . |
| 3 | But he admitted : ‘ It is a crashing diappointment for Rob because he had only just come back into the side — and his return coincided with two successive clean sheets . ’ |
| 4 | Sandra had come back into the room , and somehow she was at Matthew 's side , holding his hand and weeping . |
| 5 | He did not believe that Rose , if she had come back into the flat , would have let the cat out , or left it unfed . |
| 6 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 7 | The trouble was that Deborah had never come back through the wood before , only the one way — to Pack Meetings . |
| 8 | The three of them had come back down the tunnel to the entrance , with the man pushing Nona in front of him as a hostage . |
| 9 | He 'd have come back at the weekend , most likely . |
| 10 | I have come back to the international scene with a fierce rival in Phil Tufnell , with Ian Salisbury breathing down our necks and Hampshire 's young Sean Udal making great strides every season . |
| 11 | Top flight football should have come back to The Valley . |
| 12 | The woman had come back to the farm 's archway from where she and two men stared nervously up the road towards Frasnes . |
| 13 | The three other members of the crew had just come back to the pump — we were doing " series pumping " — they had brought me a bottle of beer and I was taking a swig . |
| 14 | After wartime service in the RAF he had come back to the School , and with his friends Mr. Norris and Mr. Hardie had helped to introduce Rugby to the School . |
| 15 | It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field . |
| 16 | She had come back to the nursery ready to sympathize with Nannie about the underarm cramp caused by her inside . |
| 17 | But they had finished with Elise 's death , and now Merrill had come back to the Midlands city where she and Elise had grown up before they went their separate ways . |
| 18 | ‘ Two other factors will make us a better team this season — Keith Finlay has come back to the club from North Fermanagh and that has stiffened our batting while Tony Johnson from Barbados is a superb all rounder . ’ |
| 19 | It is interesting , is n't it , that er I knew the road to Damascus was long , but I did n't realise it were that long cos on the second of July the Tories moved an amendment at P and R criticising us for spending money on the Lord Mayor 's car , but I 'm glad to see that you 've come back to the fold . |
| 20 | He says a boy had gone away for a weekend and had come back to the school with the tablets and then sold them . |
| 21 | The devilish smile , oblique and sharp as a scar , had come back to the gaunt face . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The general point here and I want to make is that er , these are n't officers ' promises these are the members ' promises and er , erm , we 've got to be careful that er when they 're all drawn together that we are n't making a hostage fortune , erm and so that I think it is very important members take aboard er what is suggested and test them themselves to see that they are realistic , I would also say that er as these promises are being considered by the various committees and I note a considerable variation in standards which will need to be addressed when the promises er , have come back to the Policy Committee , these are particularly in reference to the time required to respond to er , erm complaints etc , it 's no use having the Highways Committee wanting two weeks and incidentally on promise number two erm I think that er any up , somebody else 's point er straight forward wants to be deleted , erm the highways require two weeks to respond er , erm hearts and libraries want a , you know half a day , er and we 've got to get these er erm more or less synchronized I think , and whilst I 'm thinking Chairman on the last page er of the er favourite for , for first for agent authorities , but it does n't give any indication about the contact point and as most of our population live in the agent authorities that the er it needs to be expanded to give the contacts er points for the members of the public . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She promised to find out , and she 's just come back with the results . |
| 26 | Toby had come back for the moment . |
| 27 | oh he 's come back for the , this , to show to you . |
| 28 | Nahh … what I 'd really like to do is come back as the guy who shot Reagan a few years back , only I would n't miss ! |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | We had come back like the full circle of our route , intact . |