Example sentences of "[verb] back for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're obviously more cautious than you were before , and erm a lot of kids now they tend to stand back for a while just in case 'cause you can never judge how fast they 're really going to go through there . |
| 2 | Should n't we be opening our universities to older people , for people to come back for a second dose as it were , for retraining and so on ? |
| 3 | They had reached 62 and looked good for 200 when Greenidge played the ball to long leg and , seeing Devon Malcolm fumble his fielding , came back for a second . |
| 4 | I came back for a month , met a Peruvian girl and then I got a letter from her giving me a really good reason to come back . |
| 5 | When I was driving my new Granada in 1989 and dropped a friend down the road , a police car came past , saw the car with a black man driving it , circled round and came back for a second check . |
| 6 | It was boring in the passage but also , it proved , necessary , as one or two passengers came back for a look at the corpse . |
| 7 | The parents of the kids at the school where Mrs Rogers taught had her barred from the school , in case the hit squad came back for a second try . |
| 8 | They all just came back for a regular routine follow up , just a little bit late . |
| 9 | Last year they came back for a checkup and medics found their wheelchairs were ruined by the war torn terrain . |
| 10 | Would n't it be a poor thing to have the man close his shop and walk back for a kind of half-hearted snack . |
| 11 | THE death of a father-of-four , mown down as he cycled home from the shops , has brought tragic memories flooding back for a young mother . |
| 12 | If you stir enough of them together and stand back for a few hundred million years , the result is likely to be a chemical entity capable of reproducing itself — one of the fundamental differences between living and nonliving material . |
| 13 | ‘ Lie back for an hour , and let your hungover husband bring you a bite of breakfast . ’ |
| 14 | You 're not going back for a month ? |
| 15 | I found it so interesting I will certainly be going back for a closer look . ’ |
| 16 | She wriggled in outrage , but when he caught her head between his hands , pulling back for a few moments to stare intently into her face , she stopped fighting . |
| 17 | Tory turned back for a last look at the rejected blooms as the ponies moved off . |
| 18 | She ran down the steps but turned back for a moment to say , ‘ Uncle Fred 's injured but he 'll be all right . |
| 19 | Within minutes the car was free , and before I could thank the young farmer I 'd been invited back for a cup of tea and some hot broth . |
| 20 | There is still a month of the fitness challenge to run and participants are being invited back for a second assessment . |
| 21 | There was no time to raise it and draw back for a stabbing blow . |
| 22 | Logie and Dujon were steering the game their way when Dujon was bowled as he stepped back for a cover drive , and that was the turning point . |
| 23 | He spilled some of the machine tea from the plastic cups as he moved , and one of the wizened youths glanced back for a moment in disapproval . |
| 24 | Melissa glanced back for a moment and watched her plodding stolidly on her way . |
| 25 | Sport offers spontaneity which , combined with ever more sophisticated technology , allows a viewer to watch a game from many different angles , moving in for a close-up on the agonized or exultant face of the athlete , or panning back for a shot of the pitch , track , or the seashore during an Open golf championship . |
| 26 | It goes back for a hundred years or more . |
| 27 | Well really when I had the same thing , you know , and goes back for a little bit this morning and er same sort of thing . |
| 28 | erm , because you do n't stay back for a drink afterwards because you 're going to Strawberry Hill . |
| 29 | The examination committee records in London show that the majority of students were examined after nine or 18 months ' instruction , and even then they stood a chance of being referred back for a further period of study . |
| 30 | If the complaint turns out to be more serious or if agreement can not be reached on a resolution , it must be referred back for a full investigation . |