Example sentences of "back for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was walking back for over an hour through deserted streets . |
| 2 | I was quite pleased to be back home but I missed the excitement of the trips and wanted to go back for just a few more days . |
| 3 | Bob Monkhouse — already established as a leading comedy writer and just moving into performing — playing the poor wretch called up on his wedding day and Shirley Eaton as the NAAFI girl who would come back for just one more ‘ Carry On ’ . |
| 4 | As a consequence , both Cushing and Lovett resigned , as did the 44-times capped McHarg when the news was relayed to him in India , which is a sad way to end a relationship which stretches back for well over two decades . |
| 5 | I mean , I can be back for well I mean , I can actually stay there in fact . |
| 6 | GARRY SCHOFIELD , at odds with Leeds over their refusal to let him play in Australia next summer , is back for tonight 's Headingley clash with Halifax . |
| 7 | It did n't seem to her that Timothy Gedge was trying to make a joke , yet it was amazing that he was saying all this just to pay them back for not being friendly or because he wanted a wedding-dress they would n't give him , or for any reason at all . |
| 8 | Losses incurred by sole traders or partnerships can be set against other income in that fiscal year , or carried back for up to three fiscal years depending on the circumstances . |
| 9 | But he 's back for tomorrow 's clash in neutral Germany at Bochum 's Ruhr Stadium , and manager Walter Smith said : ‘ Ally is bubbling and wants to make up for missing three games when he could have scored more goals . |
| 10 | Bantam has gone back for nearly 400,000 Maya Angelou paperbacks . |
| 11 | I 'll buy some food for you ; I wo n't be back for maybe thirty hours . |
| 12 | Not expected back for quite a while yet , I suppose ? |
| 13 | We 'll be coming back for as long as we can . |
| 14 | Glasgow District Council decided last month to release its £90,000 grant for 1992-93 to the RSNO after holding it back for almost a year . |
| 15 | Yeah cos we 're always back for then . |
| 16 | The opportunity to escape from Reine appealed to Jean-Claude , even though he had been back for only a few weeks . |
| 17 | It 's in our interests — you 'll come back for more ! |
| 18 | Small inanimate objects ready to take the brunt of your tensions and frustrations , and still keep coming back for more ! |
| 19 | ‘ It says , ‘ They Take A Bite , But They Do n't Come Back For More ! ’ ’ she said . |
| 20 | It goes back for ever . |
| 21 | He said Mr Gummer had been ‘ out to Mr Lilley 's holiday cottage , and it cost the taxpayer £2,000 for him to fly back when they could fly back for less than £200 apiece ’ . |
| 22 | He waited for me every year — we came back for about six years , until I was ready to be sent to finishing school . |
| 23 | Well a couple of weeks and I was off on embarkation leave , and then I was back for about a week and we were gone . |
| 24 | But it means that she , she has a , a week 's holiday and I think she 's back for about three weeks and then breaks up again at school |
| 25 | The 4th , 10th , 14th and 27th are all times when you may feel the cosmos has it in for you although these are the very points at which you could break the chains that have held you back for so long . |
| 26 | She said she had held the document back for so long because she was afraid it would re-open old wounds for my mother and because she felt sure it was better for us not to know what it contained . ’ |
| 27 | Robyn 's voice quivered and she could feel the tears , held back for so long , welling up inside . |
| 28 | When you hold something back for so long it 's always harder . |