Example sentences of "[vb pp] back for [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | Parallel trade is now so well established that Health Department payments to pharmacists can be clawed back for sales of discounted drugs . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Some may have regretted the excursion and eventually turned back for home . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | I have long dark hair which I have to wear tied back for college . |
| 9 | ( A further five were referred back for lack of such sponsors ) . |
| 10 | Asked if the death penalty should be brought back for terrorist murderers , a majority supported its return . |
| 11 | In fact the major pilgrimage route to Santiago is said to be that by which Priscillian 's body was brought back for burial from Trier . |
| 12 | Debate on the Church went on through half the time available for discussion in the entire session , and revisions still had to be brought back for approval . |
| 13 | Rushing over to the open suitcase standing on a side table , she snatched from it the long paper-cutter she had brought back for Harold from New York . |
| 14 | Officials at the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) are increasingly concerned over the problem of Eastern Europe 's growing nuclear waste , which until the beginning of this year was taken back for reprocessing under special concessional terms by the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | But embedded voices and ambiguous modes of focalisation are not particular to narrative fiction , and the analytical techniques derived from linguistics for literary stylistics and narratology may be borrowed back for application to non-literary discourses with all the added explanatory power that such interdisciplinary sabbaticals can achieve . |
| 16 | It is sad that such talent and thought should create such a nightmarish and harrowing depiction of mental handicap , which left viewers saddened and stunned by what they saw , and may have put back for years the progress towards a real understanding of mental handicap among the general public . |
| 17 | The small ones will be kept back for seed , and anything damaged by worms or excavation will become cattle fodder ; but all the rest go for chips . |
| 18 | They demanded that the Shah , who had fled from Iran and who was undergoing treatment for cancer in the USA , should be sent back for trial before the hostages were set free . |
| 19 | They have been duly sent back for inclusion in the prize draw . |
| 20 | In the three years or so that I have been working at Joan Allen Electronics I have become acutely aware of battery problems , in particular from the many cases where detectors have been sent back for repair needlessly . |
| 21 | ‘ His body was sent back for burial . ’ |
| 22 | That leaves £7.7m to be distributed but Mr Jordan said some of this would still have to be held back for litigation . |
| 23 | With consumption in Great Britain averaging 114kg ( 250lb ) per head per annum , incidentally the highest consumption figure in Europe , most of the crop is consumed in this country ; some potatoes are exported whilst the remainder are held back for use as a seed to produce the following year 's crop . |