Example sentences of "[noun] back for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 3 ) The Principal Education Officer either accepts the lists proposed or refers particular schools back for exclusion or substitution , on the basis of expert knowledge about factors of which the project team could not have been aware . |
| 2 | He had n't fetched that key back for garage has he ? |
| 3 | He said he hoped to get the boat back for Cowes Week . |
| 4 | Trying to earn this man 's good opinion was as easy as … as climbing a descending escalator — six steps back for every one forward . |
| 5 | ‘ I was terrified when you pushed the seat back for me . ’ |
| 6 | It 's very high , you know , the interest payments are very high , but for that money you 've borrowed you 'll only pay say , just for a a figure , five hundred pound back for that twenty thousand , five you know , |
| 7 | I 've got Kieran back for next week two weeks and then it 's half way through March and first week in April I have n't got him , I 've got three weeks |
| 8 | The film charts the efforts of a dodgy theatre manager trying to lure the singer back for a last encore . |
| 9 | The first players then have to blow the balloons back for the second person to take over . |
| 10 | While the men were training and getting their eye back for archery and broadsword fighting , Lugh would be creeping up on Tara , studying the Bright Palace to find out its weaknesses ; he would be charting the movements of the guards and sentries , and counting up the number of people on watch at the Western Gate . |
| 11 | As to a scoop , just hold the article back for a while and I think you 'll have one . |
| 12 | FORMER Darlington mayor Jimmy Whelan , expelled from the Labour Party a few years back for alleged municipal disloyalty , is strolling the town with a ‘ Vote Alan Milburn ’ badge in his lapel . |
| 13 | What 'd she take the tapes back for ? |
| 14 | I might , what you got from Argos the other day , I might keep one of the things back for her birthday . |
| 15 | The case for using a Central Authority as a transmitting agency rests on the argument that the familiarity of its officers with the system of the Convention and with the practice of other countries would ensure that requests which it prepared or approved for transmission were in order and so would be handled expeditiously and without any need to refer a request back for clarification . |
| 16 | Capitalising on a slip by Gough , he pulled the ball back for 21-year-old Croatian striker Alen Boksic , who slid his shot well beyond Goram . |
| 17 | ‘ If anyone is in any doubt he can just knock the ball back for Chris to clear . ’ |
| 18 | It took Everton only 15 minutes to get their noses in front when Mark Ward made the opening for Matt Jackson to burst between two defenders and pull the ball back for Cottee to steer it wide of the helpless Mark Crossley . |
| 19 | A clearance rebounded off Cusack , Steve Gaughan beat two men and released David Cork into the box , and he pulled the ball back for Cusack to drive home . |
| 20 | Andrew Hudson and Mark Rushmere completed a satisfying first day back for the visitors , batting through the last nine overs no bother . |
| 21 | Faint-hearted , they took his essays back for remarking and upgraded them , as an airline always will a seat for a vociferous passenger . |
| 22 | This was enough for the Home Secretary to send the case back for a fourth hearing to the Court of Appeal , with the recommendation that they summon Mathews as a witness to test his credibility . |
| 23 | Sheila and Annie did not contact each other during the following week : Annie planned to invite Sheila back for coffee after the next meeting , to have a friendly talk , away from the hothouse of the group , but Sheila sent her apologies to the meeting . |
| 24 | Jazz tossed his hair back for the first time to take in what was going on . |
| 25 | He hit V1 ( the speed at which a takeoff can not be aborted ) at 97 knots and pulled the stick back for rotation at 106 knots . |
| 26 | It really does come down to , I do n't know , I mean , every year we play it very honestly and very straight , and we push him in a position where next year , if there is a next year , I think the last time that we played it straight we got clobbered , so let's pay a little bit less , and keep a bit back for when they come round a second time round . |
| 27 | paid but if you had a complete attendance they gave you the money back for your self which was quite er a good thing in these days when a a tanner was a tanner . |
| 28 | See all the firms I 've been to up till the Gas Board just gave you your money back for your pension . |
| 29 | A good fight back for Witney today in the southern division of the Beezer Homes League ; they were two goals down at home to Yate Town , but the match finished Witney two , Yate Town two , our reporter , Adrian Burcher . |
| 30 | A great fight back for United , great disappointment all around me from the Wolves fans , because that final scoreline at Molyneux reads Wolverhampton Wanderers three , Oxford United three . |