Example sentences of "[verb] back for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation was desperate : Holmes was away on a case , and not expected back for some time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Those thrills prompt you to come back for more but they 're often reinforced by a swirling hotch-potch of memories . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The students quickly bonded themselves into a tight knit group and they fought , argued , demanded and were encouraged to come back for more . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He said as he stepped on the ‘ plane : ‘ I would love to come back for another season at Portadown — but no-one has said anything to me . |
| 9 | But Karen lapped it up and came back for more . |
| 10 | When she was hit over the head with a brick and put off work for four months , she came back for more . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ( Three months later , to our mutual delight , The Mortgage Corporation came back for another £100 million . ) |
| 14 | And they came back for another fortnight of re-building ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He 'd just stopped going back for more . |
| 17 | Time dulls the memory , though , and we keep going back for more . |
| 18 | Go for local dishes and you 'll find yourself going back for more . |
| 19 | Many of them enjoyed their work experience in Picardy so much they are going back for more in their summer holidays . |
| 20 | Keep going back for more and more . |
| 21 | Because , after tonight , there can be no turning back for either of us . ’ |
| 22 | No one knew how the Lāmri god acquired his reputation for treating mad dogs , but it dated back for several generations . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We stayed for an hour and a half taking photographs and looking round before wading back for another hour with our ammo boxes again . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He 's determined to go back for that bag , are n't you ? |
| 30 | 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 . |