Example sentences of "back for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pete finds this hilarious ; he has been dying to get his own back for various things for ages and this comes close to the perfect opportunity . |
| 2 | Mr Young said that now the trust had its core holdings , the second tranche of money would be invested more slowly with some held back for new opportunities . |
| 3 | The girl shut her eyes and gripped back for dear life . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But like most children ( and adults ? ) she has an attitude to tests which somehow stops her from checking back for possible errors . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Perhaps I 'll break , go back for good . |
| 8 | Unable to meet the huge cost of the highly specialised asbestos de-contamination work then demanded of the entire Pullman set , SLOA agreed to sell the Pullmans to industrialist Sir William McAlpine ( better known to railway enthusiasts as the owner of Flying Scotsman ) and to hire them back for steam-charter use once the asbestos stripping work was complete . |
| 9 | In the event , the document proved so unacceptable that after two days ' debate it was sent back for thorough revision . |
| 10 | Now that is the type of thing that I would like to see come back for legal opinions on that statutory responsibility , the level of it , and the reasons for it . |
| 11 | The Beaver 's 144 cubicfoot interior is divided into a two-seat cockpit and slightly lower 120 cubic-foot four-footwide 52 inch-high main cabin , in which Tony has fitted a pair of three-seat benches , the middle row having a split folding back for easy access to the rear ones . |
| 12 | " No , he 's gone back for sure , " said Hazel . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | The king , anxious to pay Anselm back for disobliging him on investitures , was also determined to frustrate him . |
| 15 | After a short lying-in-state at the Abbey of St Denis the remains were shipped back for eventual burial at Westminster , some two months after the death had taken place . |
| 16 | On 7 July Amedeo wrote a card to his mother telling her , somewhat cruelly , that as Italy was now in the war , he had thought that he might be called back for military service , even though he was an invalid and had felt a slight desire to return to Italy . |
| 17 | Mr McKeag ( later Dr McKeag ) had been immensely popular on the Circuit and was often invited back for special services . |
| 18 | Bryan is back for United |
| 19 | Frenchman Eric Cantona will definitely be back for United after suspension , probably at the expense of Andrei Kanchelskis . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | These papers — entitled ‘ Performance Measurement : A Challenge for Total Quality and the Accounting Professions ’ and ‘ Competitive Benchmarking : Using Customer Feed Back for Superior Performance Standards ’ — were very well received and the tour as a whole was extremely successful . |
| 22 | Staff Nurse Target needed to be back for visiting hour , as there were always some visitors asking questions . |
| 23 | The hardest hit Americans included Ed Ruscha , Donald Sultan and Frank Stella though Anthony Grant at Sotheby 's stresses that demand has already bounced back for top works by Julian Schnabel and others badly mauled in 1991 . |