Example sentences of "[verb] back for the " in BNC.
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| 31 | On the last day of term the school assembled in the large upstairs room which had the screens pulled back for the occasion . |
| 32 | I 'll get this train stopped and we 'll go back for the lost car . |
| 33 | ‘ She says she wo n't go back for the operation now because of what happened . ’ |
| 34 | Pinning a bright smile on her face , she carefully placed a sugar bowl on each table , beamed at them all impartially , scurried back for the pile of menus on the counter — only to have them forcibly removed from her hands by Feargal . |
| 35 | Then we went back for the long-service merit awards . |
| 36 | He went back for the President , lifting him from behind by both elbows and walking him into the shower with his boxer shorts and his sandals on . |
| 37 | Hilary Robarts said impatiently : ‘ But the body , when you first went back for the torch and saw her , you were certain she was dead ? ’ |
| 38 | I hesitated , then went back for the indigo wrap . |
| 39 | ‘ When you 've finished , it 'll look like a snooker table , ’ he said cheerfully , and , reversing deftly , he went back for the next lot . |
| 40 | He went back for the woman pedestrian he knocked down near a busy roundabout and helped her into his white Sierra car . |
| 41 | I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time . |
| 42 | And then they sent back for the you know the , the ones that had been there before . |
| 43 | But I think they 'd just gone back for the money creed and once you get that well erm they do n't realize that they could be falling into the trap unless we blokes stand firm now to maintain this standard of living . |
| 44 | Keeping a little white icing back for the wave crests , tint the remaining royal icing shades of different blues and greens for the sea . |
| 45 | Farther south in Aswan , security sources said militants had hit back for the storming of the mosque with at least three bomb attacks on police and the fire brigade . |
| 46 | I must be with my Minister at ten but I 'll come back for the funeral … or if anyone else wants to talk to me … ’ |
| 47 | Louis can come back for the trunk tomorrow . |
| 48 | The Madonna wore blood-red purple during her son 's Passion , but put on gold and silver for his Resurrection and Ascension and for her own glorious Assumption , when Tommaso would surely come back for the holiday . |
| 49 | We 're just taking a bag , we 'll come back for the rest when the wind 's gone down . " |
| 50 | Now if they 're multiplied or divided then you ca n't say , Oh well I 'll just take this bit and do that and then I 'll come back for the other one . |
| 51 | yeah and like learning my Romeo and Ju I think I might actually sit down on Sunday and learn that cos I 'm gon na be at home but I , it 's quite good I 'll , I 'll see Foxy when I get back in the evening because parents have got ta come back for the parents ' meeting . |
| 52 | Anyway , we met up , and we never did get back for the last act . |
| 53 | Perhaps you 'll get back for the Gala . ’ |
| 54 | Investors have been expecting its publication for the last two weeks but are fearful it will be kept back for the week when Parliament goes into the Christmas recess . |
| 55 | The lowering of interest rates last year provided extra spending power for the family but , as Mr Ingram , 34 , pointed out , that will probably now just be kept back for the rainy days to come in 1994 . |
| 56 | However , when music is written for a specific text , the maximum musical climax must be kept back for the decisive point in the words . |
| 57 | Naturally , the highest note is usually kept back for the greatest climax , together with maximum volume , note-length , accentuation , etc . |
| 58 | He was already in so far he could not find his depth , and he wanted to turn and strike back for the shore , but , like an unpractised swimmer , found that the distance he had come was too great for him to return . |
| 59 | Others struck back for the beach . |
| 60 | And those pro the , the guidelines would , if accepted , enable schemes two and three to continue , on the basis that the capital receipts from the sale of the are earmarked for this sort of investments , and that these in their turn will generate a flow of capital receipts which can be ploughed back for the benefit of the to the totality of County Council 's capital programme . |