Example sentences of "back for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bomb that killed President Muawad appeared to have defeated or at least set back for many months the Arab initiative spearheaded by Morocco , Algeria and Saudi Arabia . |
| 2 | But what you 're doing here I think it is er , er an example of the partnership , a partnership that goes back for many years , certainly during World War Two and I think er it is still strong and er holds firm today the partnership between the United States and Great Britain . |
| 3 | Quinn said : ‘ Bobby Gould was prepared to take a gamble on me at Coventry , so I will be trying to pay him back for that by scoring even more goals . |
| 4 | I presume he 'll come back for that . |
| 5 | Years later , 1948 tourist Doug Ring , speaking at a dinner , thanked George Tribe for not making it back for that crucial pre-tour season . |
| 6 | I 'll be back for that . |
| 7 | She would like to get her own back for that row she had got into last October . |
| 8 | ‘ We 'll come back for that if we have n't found Garry by then . |
| 9 | Who pays you back for that ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I must get back for that . |
| 11 | I 'll get my own back for that later . ’ |
| 12 | 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 , |
| 13 | Kept back for that ! |
| 14 | He 's determined to go back for that bag , are n't you ? |
| 15 | We called for some fish and chips to take back for all of us , but I was n't sure that I could eat them after seeing that documentary where they all had ulcers . |
| 16 | I firmly told him that if he ever came near me again , I would fight back for all I was worth and , even if he managed to beat me every time , sooner or later I would get lucky and hurt him . |
| 17 | But he felt that McAllister had to pay something back for all the fairy-tales which she had told Matey and himself , and which Matey had so gullibly swallowed . |
| 18 | Railway stock sent from Black Sea ports to another area , the Middle Volga , was not sent back for more grain , but for the most part ended up in Siberia . |
| 19 | She 's with a boy our age — a toy boy — and though he deserts her for young girls and even beats her up — she 's such a sucker for punishment , she goes back for more . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Eventually he limped into the channel , recovered his breath , and went back for more . |
| 22 | But Karen lapped it up and came back for more . |
| 23 | The largest slice of our cash comes from the ‘ Charity Shop ’ and so we wish to express our thanks to all those involved with it — those who give goods to sell — those who staff it — those why buy and keep on coming back for more . |
| 24 | He 'd just stopped going back for more . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | When she was hit over the head with a brick and put off work for four months , she came back for more . |
| 27 | People see that as good value for money and keep coming back for more ’ . |
| 28 | Time dulls the memory , though , and we keep going back for more . |
| 29 | Women who have been probed wish they could come back for more . ’ |
| 30 | Yet he has walked 130 miles with Botham and is coming back for more next week . |