Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] back for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , David asked me to go back for coffee but I refused . ’ |
| 2 | And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I came back for pre-season perfectly all right and fit , but I twisted the ankle in the first minute of our first workout game against Brentford at the training ground . |
| 5 | He told me , before I first went to England in 1947 , to make sure I came back for the next Australian season so that I would be eligible for selection for the '48 tour . |
| 6 | I came back for you . |
| 7 | I came back for my brother 's funeral , and I wore my collar and tie . |
| 8 | With the playback that in fact erm as has said it showed me what in fact I was doing right and wrong , erm I 've been on television before once when I was running the London marathon but this time it was actually me and me alone in a work element and I could in fact see what I was doing and why I was doing it and understand in fact the corrections from the morning to in fact the afternoon presentation when I came back for the second one . |
| 9 | I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time . |
| 10 | And he confessed yesterday : ‘ I go back for seconds and thirds . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I went back for a couple of months this summer for the first time in four years . |
| 12 | It was gone when I went back for it . ’ |
| 13 | By the time I went back for it , it was too late . |
| 14 | scraped it all in and I said I 'll leave it in dish cos it 's a dog doggy dish went back in house and , oh what did I come back for ? |
| 15 | When I got up , when I come back for me things me knickers were full of sand |
| 16 | ‘ Good bye , Granny , I 'll try to be a good girl , ’ I sobbed before I stood back for the undertaker to screw down the lid . |
| 17 | I belong to a family which goes back for 14 centuries . |
| 18 | As a consequence , both Cushing and Lovett resigned , as did the 44-times capped McHarg when the news was relayed to him in India , which is a sad way to end a relationship which stretches back for well over two decades . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I said if you had n't I 'd get you to go back for a chat with him . ’ |
| 21 | Those thrills prompt you to come back for more but they 're often reinforced by a swirling hotch-potch of memories . |
| 22 | When she was hit over the head with a brick and put off work for four months , she came back for more . |
| 23 | ABBERLEY ( chatty ) : She came back for her books . |
| 24 | ‘ And in that order , too , ’ Ruth laughed , ‘ because it was ages before she came back for her husband . ’ |
| 25 | What exactly are you rushing back for ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She could n't lift you so she stepped back for me to do it . |
| 28 | " Did n't you go back for " un ? |
| 29 | ‘ You go back for 'em , ’ Nails said . |
| 30 | ‘ You 're a brave man if you go back for another of these things , ’ he adds , gesturing at a dodgy-looking sausage sandwich . |