Example sentences of "[v-ing] back for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was walking back for over an hour through deserted streets . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's not snowing so heavily now , ’ he said , on climbing back for the sixth time . |
| 3 | But like most children ( and adults ? ) she has an attitude to tests which somehow stops her from checking back for possible errors . |
| 4 | Looking back for the future |
| 5 | The shop is a far cry from the modern boutique , and still has stock dating back for generations . |
| 6 | The buyer will customarily ask for accounts ranging back for three years in respect of the activities of the management company . |
| 7 | THE death of a father-of-four , mown down as he cycled home from the shops , has brought tragic memories flooding back for a young mother . |
| 8 | It was a recent television series called Heroes II — The Return , which brought the memories flooding back for Bernard Seyburn . |
| 9 | He escaped with Bean from the tea table as soon as possible and slipped out of the house , heading back for the open spaces of the industrial estate . |
| 10 | Burton was heading back for base . |
| 11 | And then Cardiff turned , heading back for the reception . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had the order books going back for years and years and he was able to show me . |
| 15 | By 1765 , when de Broglie submitted his plan to King Louis XV , the French government already had in their archives detailed invasion schemes going back for at least a century . |
| 16 | He 'd just stopped going back for more . |
| 17 | We 'll certainly be going back for seconds ! |
| 18 | Time dulls the memory , though , and we keep going back for more . |
| 19 | ‘ It must be nice to have pictures of your family going back for years . |
| 20 | You were very insistent about going back for him . |
| 21 | Go for local dishes and you 'll find yourself going back for more . |
| 22 | As soon as school was finished we used to rush back to her house and start on our homework immediately , so as to have an hour or so for the passeggiata before going back for supper and finishing off . |
| 23 | But there was no going back for the impoverished Miss Theodosia Kyte . |
| 24 | You 're not going back for a month ? |
| 25 | I found it so interesting I will certainly be going back for a closer look . ’ |
| 26 | There were dark schemes afoot , he said — some with their roots going back for years — and if Hitler could achieve it , the replacement of King George by his brother could only occur at the cost of Winston 's life . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Once we leave the plane there 'll be no going back for anything we 've forgotten . |
| 29 | Many of them enjoyed their work experience in Picardy so much they are going back for more in their summer holidays . |
| 30 | I know there 's little pure E around ; most of it 's heroin , speed or acid ( LSD ) , but it 's still a feeling worth going back for . ’ |