Example sentences of "[vb past] back for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Hearing that there was the prospect of action with No. 8 Commando , he reported back for duty . |
| 3 | Two days later he reported back for training . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They had reached 62 and looked good for 200 when Greenidge played the ball to long leg and , seeing Devon Malcolm fumble his fielding , came back for a second . |
| 6 | In terms of visiting and recorded contacts with other agencies , the specialist team displayed a clearer pattern of activities than the other teams : while cases remained open they visited more , and did not ‘ monitor only ’ ; if closed and re-opened , cases came back for re-assessment in fewer numbers ; and in both categories the rate of contacts with other agencies was higher . |
| 7 | I came back for a month , met a Peruvian girl and then I got a letter from her giving me a really good reason to come back . |
| 8 | When I was driving my new Granada in 1989 and dropped a friend down the road , a police car came past , saw the car with a black man driving it , circled round and came back for a second check . |
| 9 | But Karen lapped it up and came back for more . |
| 10 | It was boring in the passage but also , it proved , necessary , as one or two passengers came back for a look at the corpse . |
| 11 | When she was hit over the head with a brick and put off work for four months , she came back for more . |
| 12 | Before darkness fell , and the attempt could be made , Edward 's heralds came back for their answer . |
| 13 | ( Three months later , to our mutual delight , The Mortgage Corporation came back for another £100 million . ) |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ An alternative theory is that the killer knocked him out first , then went into the washroom to strip and came back for the final throat-cutting before Berowne had a chance to come round . |
| 16 | The parents of the kids at the school where Mrs Rogers taught had her barred from the school , in case the hit squad came back for a second try . |
| 17 | He told me , before I first went to England in 1947 , to make sure I came back for the next Australian season so that I would be eligible for selection for the '48 tour . |
| 18 | I came back for you . |
| 19 | My sister thought it must have been a mistake , and kept the pound notes in case he came back for them . |
| 20 | ABBERLEY ( chatty ) : She came back for her books . |
| 21 | Then the Airds came back for something they had forgotten . |
| 22 | And then , after putting the note on his bed for him to read when he came back for his rest and covering it with the undyed hessian bedspread in case their child saw it , she would sit down and try to wring words out of the sleepy little boy at breakfast before he went off to school , and find that she had an empty morning in which to worry about what she had written . |
| 23 | They all just came back for a regular routine follow up , just a little bit late . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I suppose a lot of people would say he got his just desserts , they did in that family , because they all came back for , three hours later , and er , gained entry . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ He came back for his spare hearing-aid ? ’ |
| 28 | I came back for my brother 's funeral , and I wore my collar and tie . |
| 29 | With the playback that in fact erm as has said it showed me what in fact I was doing right and wrong , erm I 've been on television before once when I was running the London marathon but this time it was actually me and me alone in a work element and I could in fact see what I was doing and why I was doing it and understand in fact the corrections from the morning to in fact the afternoon presentation when I came back for the second one . |
| 30 | ‘ And in that order , too , ’ Ruth laughed , ‘ because it was ages before she came back for her husband . ’ |