Example sentences of "[verb] back for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was walking back for over an hour through deserted streets . |
| 2 | But its annual surpluses ( $56 billion in fiscal 1989 ) are added back for the purposes of the Gramm-Rudman deficit-cutting law . |
| 3 | The show was over , and Sweetheart had not come back for him . |
| 4 | I said brazenly , ‘ I 've come back for tea , after all . ’ |
| 5 | The callous incident of the heat sink … but then : hands linked in the Tunnel of Terror … the upper-habber had come back for his two companions , for whatever reason … |
| 6 | Toby had come back for the moment . |
| 7 | Lucker has obviously come back for me once , as there is a fresh note on the bed . |
| 8 | ‘ It says , ‘ They Take A Bite , But They Do n't Come Back For More ! ’ ’ she said . |
| 9 | Clare Wildish has come back for help feeding her second baby , 3 day old Emma . |
| 10 | oh he 's come back for the , this , to show to you . |
| 11 | yeah , so why do they call him Harry all the time , Harry for a boy , that 's awful I mean a lot of the old names , we talked about the other day , a lot of the old names have come back for children , but I mean I do n't think Harry should be |
| 12 | ‘ It 's not snowing so heavily now , ’ he said , on climbing back for the sixth time . |
| 13 | Once round the loch and they headed back for their car , muttering that we were wasting our time because there was not a single fish in the loch . |
| 14 | ‘ But he 's a good solid pro and I 'm sure he 'll bounce back for us . |
| 15 | Not expected back for quite a while yet , I suppose ? |
| 16 | The situation was desperate : Holmes was away on a case , and not expected back for some time . |
| 17 | You 're obviously more cautious than you were before , and erm a lot of kids now they tend to stand back for a while just in case 'cause you can never judge how fast they 're really going to go through there . |
| 18 | Millie would have been fiddling awkwardly with the thick brush of ginger hair coarser than her father 's , and even redder — that sprang away all round her face , while her cello case , which I had carried back for her , was no doubt propped up against one of the crumbling and gateless brick pillars in front of their house , like a portly little old man too out of breath to speak . |
| 19 | Hearing that there was the prospect of action with No. 8 Commando , he reported back for duty . |
| 20 | Two days later he reported back for training . |
| 21 | When the full meeting of commissioners also failed to agree " without the authority of their lords " , they made a truce until 5 November and reported back for further instructions . |
| 22 | Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude . |
| 23 | But like most children ( and adults ? ) she has an attitude to tests which somehow stops her from checking back for possible errors . |
| 24 | An attack would have been tantamount to committing suicide , so reluctantly Stirling gave orders to leave the town and head back for the rendezvous with the LRDG . |
| 25 | Even when he 'd roared full-blooded into a spiny bush in pursuit of a tennis ball , he 'd ignore our gasps and head back for more . |
| 26 | Looks to me like she 's forgotten to come back for you , son . |
| 27 | One wonders just how furious : last week , back in Moscow to see her three-year-old son between performances , Semenyaka was having difficulties getting a visa to come back for her next role here , Cinderella , in only three weeks ' time . |
| 28 | I tried to run , desperately hoping the driver would wait but , even better , he turned to come back for me . |
| 29 | Everyone who has left the village makes the effort to come back for May weekend . |
| 30 | However , they agreed to come back for their next session , in which Tom said , ‘ We have thought about what you said last week , and neither of us likes the idea of having ‘ tartiness ’ in our relationship , as you put it . |