Example sentences of "[verb] back for more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when he 'd roared full-blooded into a spiny bush in pursuit of a tennis ball , he 'd ignore our gasps and head back for more . |
| 2 | Those thrills prompt you to come back for more but they 're often reinforced by a swirling hotch-potch of memories . |
| 3 | ‘ I think what I 'm asking for a pair of shoes is fair enough though I am keeping the prices low as an incentive for my customers to come back for more . ’ |
| 4 | Systemic poisons will not stop the bees from taking a building brick , but they will be feeling pretty queer by the time they want to come back for more . |
| 5 | The students quickly bonded themselves into a tight knit group and they fought , argued , demanded and were encouraged to come back for more . |
| 6 | But Carolyn , backed up by Phil Morris , hammered away at the point that furnishing fabrics were not like clothes , where customers did not expect to come back for more of the same . |
| 7 | But Karen lapped it up and came back for more . |
| 8 | When she was hit over the head with a brick and put off work for four months , she came back for more . |
| 9 | The teaching team , many of whom had not been involved in community interpreting before , rose to the challenge and fought , argued and demanded and came back for more . |
| 10 | They had had many rows like this , and it was a measure of how far their relationship had come that Edward , while sometimes scorched by the depth of Erica 's cynicism , fought his corner without descending into rage and came back for more . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He 'd just stopped going back for more . |
| 13 | Time dulls the memory , though , and we keep going back for more . |
| 14 | Go for local dishes and you 'll find yourself going back for more . |
| 15 | Many of them enjoyed their work experience in Picardy so much they are going back for more in their summer holidays . |
| 16 | Keep going back for more and more . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | People see that as good value for money and keep coming back for more ’ . |
| 21 | Yet he has walked 130 miles with Botham and is coming back for more next week . |
| 22 | I rarely see any of them coming back for more . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | No matter how dismally he fared , he kept coming back for more . |
| 25 | You took all of the abuse , the failures and disappointments , and kept on coming back for more . |
| 26 | Well she 's coming back for more . |
| 27 | On the other hand , he can ask for provisional damages and get a lesser sum now which may seem unattractive even though he can go back for more later . |
| 28 | Eventually he limped into the channel , recovered his breath , and went back for more . |
| 29 | Burton describes being ‘ between the two men I most feared ’ but nevertheless , and with all that was hanging on the part , he went back for more . |
| 30 | ‘ I can manage , ’ he said brusquely , threw them down , and went back for more . |