Example sentences of "[verb] back for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | No one knew how the Lāmri god acquired his reputation for treating mad dogs , but it dated back for several generations . |
| 32 | Mr McKeag ( later Dr McKeag ) had been immensely popular on the Circuit and was often invited back for special services . |
| 33 | I once saw this same beseeching looseness of eye and mouth in the face of a ragged little faggot on Sunset Boulevard , scorched and peed-on and limping back for more . |
| 34 | McKoy , having already been called back for one false start , would have been disqualified for a second offence — but he took full advantage of his head-start to pip Jackson for the gold . |
| 35 | On 7 July Amedeo wrote a card to his mother telling her , somewhat cruelly , that as Italy was now in the war , he had thought that he might be called back for military service , even though he was an invalid and had felt a slight desire to return to Italy . |
| 36 | Traffic tailed back for twelve miles . |
| 37 | We stayed for an hour and a half taking photographs and looking round before wading back for another hour with our ammo boxes again . |
| 38 | The French or Gallica roses are probably the oldest cultivated roses of European origin , and can arguably be traced back for 3,000 years . |
| 39 | It was much used in mediaeval times in Britain and , indeed , its use can be traced back for 3,000 years . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | I belong to a family which goes back for 14 centuries . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | The king , anxious to pay Anselm back for disobliging him on investitures , was also determined to frustrate him . |
| 46 | Your Royal Highness , it follows to me er Council have debated the Riding Report er a lot of it they did not accept , many of the ideas were referred back for further reconsideration and that is in the hands of the Central Management Committee at the moment and we are proposing to develop the ideas and come back to Council and the wh whole report is not forgotten . |
| 47 | He 's determined to go back for that bag , are n't you ? |
| 48 | I find some people on the streets are quite like , pigheaded and they do n't really want to go back for some reason really . |
| 49 | Refused to go back for any more . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | People see that as good value for money and keep coming back for more ’ . |
| 52 | Yet he has walked 130 miles with Botham and is coming back for more next week . |
| 53 | I rarely see any of them coming back for more . ’ |
| 54 | The advertisement for the video equivalent of the Mills and Boon novel declares : ‘ Because they 're a branded series , your customers will see one and keep coming back for more ( it may be a new concept in video , but publishers like IPC and Mills and Boon have been doing very nicely on it for years ) ’ ; thus heralding a new departure for the form . |
| 55 | No matter how dismally he fared , he kept coming back for more . |
| 56 | You took all of the abuse , the failures and disappointments , and kept on coming back for more . |
| 57 | Well she 's coming back for more . |
| 58 | I was more the romantic type , being satisfied with a snack , holding the lady on a pedestal for a length of time , and coming back for another wee nibble . |
| 59 | But go up to your room and get your bag packed for what you , ready for you 're not going straight to Leanne 's you 're coming back for half hour or so ? |
| 60 | Under these schemes , which had first been developed in the 1970s as a means of raising capital from the private sector for new development , for example , on office and shopping complexes ( i.e. as a means of avoiding constraints on capital spending ) , council property was sold on a long lease to another agency and then leased back for shorter periods until the long lease expired . |