Example sentences of "back for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Timmis held firm with 26 in 44 overs but received little support as Oswestry were sent back for 109 . |
| 2 | Talybont were then sent back for 109 , Wheeler hitting 33 not out and Simon Lloyd Williams 31 . |
| 3 | Go on then and I 'll have mine back for five hundred , yeah |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The girl shut her eyes and gripped back for dear life . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As soon as we 'd packed all the stuff in the ba van we 'd have the rest of the sandwiches the rest of the coffee or another cup of coffee and then we 'd get on the road and even if we 'd got back for four , by the time we 'd got home and , and had something to eat or if we did n't want nothing to eat , watched the telly for half an hour and get to bed , you 've got from eleven till sort of three or four the next day which is just nice because you 're in your own home |
| 10 | So of course inevitably what happened is we got the house lot in just , took it to this place in Leeds , got finished with that load and back for four which is what the estimate had covered us for , and then we had to start all over again with what was in the garage . |
| 11 | Traffic tailed back for twelve miles . |
| 12 | But like most children ( and adults ? ) she has an attitude to tests which somehow stops her from checking back for possible errors . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Perhaps I 'll break , go back for good . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll sell ye it back for two and a half . ’ |
| 16 | He was away and would not be back for two weeks . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's been back for two days . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | My mother 's been up there and she did n't come back for two hours and she came back we kept well he 'd sold a lot of meat in the meantime . |
| 20 | She did n't come back for two days . |
| 21 | The French or Gallica roses are probably the oldest cultivated roses of European origin , and can arguably be traced back for 3,000 years . |
| 22 | It was much used in mediaeval times in Britain and , indeed , its use can be traced back for 3,000 years . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | it looks like he 's learnt from the Arse match where he was hauled back for 5 yards by Campbell before they scored their 2nd . |
| 26 | then we 'd have to be back for eleven , ca n't , I do n't know what 's gon na happen to the dog |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In the event , the document proved so unacceptable that after two days ' debate it was sent back for thorough revision . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I presume he 'll come back for that . |