Example sentences of "[verb] back for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clare Wildish has come back for help feeding her second baby , 3 day old Emma . |
| 2 | I said brazenly , ‘ I 've come back for tea , after all . ’ |
| 3 | yeah , so why do they call him Harry all the time , Harry for a boy , that 's awful I mean a lot of the old names , we talked about the other day , a lot of the old names have come back for children , but I mean I do n't think Harry should be |
| 4 | Two days later he reported back for training . |
| 5 | Hearing that there was the prospect of action with No. 8 Commando , he reported back for duty . |
| 6 | Everyone who has left the village makes the effort to come back for May weekend . |
| 7 | Then as he climbed into the passenger seat he said , ‘ Would you like to come back for coffee ? ’ |
| 8 | The object is to train a bird to fly free , but then to come back for food . |
| 9 | The method of ‘ verstehen ’ could be quite insufficiently explanatory , or could fall back for explanation on a ( theoretically circular ) ‘ informing spirit ’ . |
| 10 | In terms of visiting and recorded contacts with other agencies , the specialist team displayed a clearer pattern of activities than the other teams : while cases remained open they visited more , and did not ‘ monitor only ’ ; if closed and re-opened , cases came back for re-assessment in fewer numbers ; and in both categories the rate of contacts with other agencies was higher . |
| 11 | The shop is a far cry from the modern boutique , and still has stock dating back for generations . |
| 12 | Parallel trade is now so well established that Health Department payments to pharmacists can be clawed back for sales of discounted drugs . |
| 13 | As two days are allocated for the match in order to obtain a result , refunds can not be made and nor can tickets be accepted back for exchange or re-sale . |
| 14 | Some may have regretted the excursion and eventually turned back for home . |
| 15 | This confirmed everyone 's worst fears , and Stirling radioed back for instructions . |
| 16 | It was a recent television series called Heroes II — The Return , which brought the memories flooding back for Bernard Seyburn . |
| 17 | Burton was heading back for base . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I want my er if you 're going back for dinner , I want my camera and my film . |
| 20 | He had the order books going back for years and years and he was able to show me . |
| 21 | ‘ It must be nice to have pictures of your family going back for years . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We 'll certainly be going back for seconds ! |
| 24 | After about half an hour 's unsteady plodding along the sand , leaving dinosaur hoofprints and a small steaming roundabout in the middle of the beach , my buffalo turned back for home , slotted a few heads of corn into his cheeks by the way of reward and let me dismount . |
| 25 | And the master carpenter and the other lad turned back for Shrewsbury . |
| 26 | Sir , — Now that the election is over , and Mr. Kinnock has retired , could we please have our red rose back for St. Georges day next week ? |
| 27 | In spite of her bulk she moved swiftly to grab the instrument , and she stepped back for fear it should be taken from her again . |
| 28 | I have long dark hair which I have to wear tied back for college . |
| 29 | An audience can only sit at the front of the stage and the hall stretches back for miles . |
| 30 | He got back for July , but only to complain of ‘ the day-to-day badgering ’ to which he was subjected in the House of Commons . |