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Example sentences for "come back"

  • Just then I saw the boatman coming who looks after our motor boat, and I tiptoed to him and asked him to go away, and not to come back unless he had quieter boats and would not whistel.

  • He's going to come back in a frenzey, and he'll take it out on me, unless I'm prepared.

  • If he don't come back for a year he'll be all right.

  • We skipped out and looked; but it warn't nothing but the flutter of a steamboat's wheel away down, coming around the point; so we come back.

  • First I didn't know where I was; I thought I was dreaming; and when things began to come back to me they seemed to come up dim out of last week.

  • But for reasons of my own, which it is not necessary to mention, I desire you to leave the town, and never to come back.

  • I'll take care that you don't want to come back!

  • You have only to go straight to Serendib and give my message, then you are free to come back and do as you will.

  • Come back in the fall and we shall manage that.

  • Come back at lunchtime and I'll tell you.

  • Keep under the covers; I'll come back to you in a moment," he said, bending over the glass lamp with his thermometer.

  • She won't come back a little girl," Mrs. Kronborg said to her husband as they turned to go home.

  • And I'm not going to ask you to come back to Gopher Prairie!

  • It may be that some day I'll come back, but not till I can bring something more than I have now.

  • We're going to have a large wide time, and everything 'll be different when we come back.

  • If you put so much as a stone there, by Crums, Munro, I'll come back in the dead of the night and plant it on the pit of your stomach.

  • By Crums, I'll come back and I'll buy Bradfield, and I'll give it away as a tip to a waiter.

  • Well, now, I'll come back to something practical.

  • If you want to come back tomorrow, we'll finish the rest.

  • I told them that he still hadn't come back.

  • You mean you're not ashamed to come back to my house?

  • She gave me forty coppers and whispered in my ear to come back to her house the next morning and I would earn forty more.

  • I never thought we might want to come back!

  • Now hang it all, we got to come back in the night.

  • I'll come back in a minute and sit with you.

  • I'll come back in two hours and tell you all about it.

  • The happy old times can't come back, and we mustn't expect it.

  • You shall all go and help me, and when we come back we will have bread and milk for breakfast, and make it up at dinnertime.

  • I wish you were all going, but as you can't, I shall keep my adventures to tell you when I come back.

  • She is very nervous, and begged me to come back.

  • Come back to this lady in a year, and may her future and yours justify us in the judgment which we have pronounced this night!

  • When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything; I begin just where I left off.

  • And now he's come back to eat them," cried Marie, nodding at Carl.

  • Ever since she's come back she's been perfectly cheerful, and she says she's contented to live and work in a world that's so big and interesting.

  • If you take anything from Clough, but we don't either of us fancy you will, let it be COME BACK.

  • I come back now to the first part of his objections.

  • I got nobody to come back with me but the supercargo and two men, and with these walked back to the boat.

  • Yes, come back again, because she wishes .

  • Then you can hide in the lumber-room and you shall see Christine, who will have gone to her dressing-room, delighted to come back by the Communists' road.

  • To come back, to come back on the instant--the idea gave me wings.

  • He had a great love of music and little time for the joy of it; but occasionally, when workaday noises were muffled by Saturday afternoons, it used to come back to him that there were glories.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "come back" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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