Example sentences of "[verb] back for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation was desperate : Holmes was away on a case , and not expected back for some time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But like most children ( and adults ? ) she has an attitude to tests which somehow stops her from checking back for possible errors . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Those thrills prompt you to come back for more but they 're often reinforced by a swirling hotch-potch of memories . |
| 6 | ‘ I think what I 'm asking for a pair of shoes is fair enough though I am keeping the prices low as an incentive for my customers to come back for more . ’ |
| 7 | Systemic poisons will not stop the bees from taking a building brick , but they will be feeling pretty queer by the time they want to come back for more . |
| 8 | The students quickly bonded themselves into a tight knit group and they fought , argued , demanded and were encouraged to come back for more . |
| 9 | But Carolyn , backed up by Phil Morris , hammered away at the point that furnishing fabrics were not like clothes , where customers did not expect to come back for more of the same . |
| 10 | He said as he stepped on the ‘ plane : ‘ I would love to come back for another season at Portadown — but no-one has said anything to me . |
| 11 | ‘ I came back for pre-season perfectly all right and fit , but I twisted the ankle in the first minute of our first workout game against Brentford at the training ground . |
| 12 | But Karen lapped it up and came back for more . |
| 13 | When she was hit over the head with a brick and put off work for four months , she came back for more . |
| 14 | The teaching team , many of whom had not been involved in community interpreting before , rose to the challenge and fought , argued and demanded and came back for more . |
| 15 | They had had many rows like this , and it was a measure of how far their relationship had come that Edward , while sometimes scorched by the depth of Erica 's cynicism , fought his corner without descending into rage and came back for more . |
| 16 | ( Three months later , to our mutual delight , The Mortgage Corporation came back for another £100 million . ) |
| 17 | And they came back for another fortnight of re-building ! |
| 18 | The buyer will customarily ask for accounts ranging back for three years in respect of the activities of the management company . |
| 19 | As soon as we 'd packed all the stuff in the ba van we 'd have the rest of the sandwiches the rest of the coffee or another cup of coffee and then we 'd get on the road and even if we 'd got back for four , by the time we 'd got home and , and had something to eat or if we did n't want nothing to eat , watched the telly for half an hour and get to bed , you 've got from eleven till sort of three or four the next day which is just nice because you 're in your own home |
| 20 | Upon a sale of land the purchaser is normally entitled to have produced to him and to investigate the deeds recording previous transactions in the land going back for fifteen years ( Law of Property Act 1969 : formerly the period was thirty years ) ; and though this period is sometimes reduced by agreement , the shortening of the period throws a risk on the purchaser , who is not only bound by all legal interests in the land which actually exist whether he discovers them or not , but also by all equitable interests which he would have discovered if he had insisted on an investigation for the longer period . |
| 21 | Yet if this had taken place in her grandmother 's room , he would have found plenty of bottles there , a cupboard-full , going back for two or three years . |
| 22 | I can count the number of trout that I have taken from this lovely loch on the fingers of one hand and blank days are the rule , but I keep going back for more . |
| 23 | He 'd just stopped going back for more . |
| 24 | Time dulls the memory , though , and we keep going back for more . |
| 25 | Go for local dishes and you 'll find yourself going back for more . |
| 26 | Many of them enjoyed their work experience in Picardy so much they are going back for more in their summer holidays . |
| 27 | Keep going back for more and more . |
| 28 | Because , after tonight , there can be no turning back for either of us . ’ |
| 29 | But the taxi had showed up on the dot , and she had stepped in , resolutely refusing to look back for one last glance at the house . |
| 30 | it looks like he 's learnt from the Arse match where he was hauled back for 5 yards by Campbell before they scored their 2nd . |