Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] back for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Good bye , Granny , I 'll try to be a good girl , ’ I sobbed before I stood back for the undertaker to screw down the lid . |
| 3 | I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time . |
| 4 | It was gone when I went back for it . ’ |
| 5 | Logie and Dujon were steering the game their way when Dujon was bowled as he stepped back for a cover drive , and that was the turning point . |