Example sentences of "go back for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He had the order books going back for years and years and he was able to show me . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He 'd just stopped going back for more . |
| 6 | We 'll certainly be going back for seconds ! |
| 7 | Time dulls the memory , though , and we keep going back for more . |
| 8 | ‘ It must be nice to have pictures of your family going back for years . |
| 9 | You were very insistent about going back for him . |
| 10 | Go for local dishes and you 'll find yourself going back for more . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But there was no going back for the impoverished Miss Theodosia Kyte . |
| 13 | You 're not going back for a month ? |
| 14 | I found it so interesting I will certainly be going back for a closer look . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Once we leave the plane there 'll be no going back for anything we 've forgotten . |
| 18 | Many of them enjoyed their work experience in Picardy so much they are going back for more in their summer holidays . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | I want my er if you 're going back for dinner , I want my camera and my film . |
| 21 | Keep going back for more and more . |
| 22 | Michael 's been stabbed , I 'm going back for them . |
| 23 | In one direction only a little earthy bank separates me from the edge of the ocean , while in the other the valley goes back for miles and miles . |
| 24 | It goes back for ever . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It goes back for a hundred years or more . |
| 27 | When it has stopped coming , he drops the body and goes back for another lamb and another , creeping down the earthen steps with his blood-stained knife and his feet and ankles splashed with red . |
| 28 | I belong to a family which goes back for 14 centuries . |
| 29 | This type of question goes back for several generations , and small children are able to answer freely without any effort or strain on their part . |
| 30 | And the criminal record goes back for centuries . |