Example sentences of "[v-ing] back for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But like most children ( and adults ? ) she has an attitude to tests which somehow stops her from checking back for possible errors . |
| 2 | The buyer will customarily ask for accounts ranging back for three years in respect of the activities of the management company . |
| 3 | Upon a sale of land the purchaser is normally entitled to have produced to him and to investigate the deeds recording previous transactions in the land going back for fifteen years ( Law of Property Act 1969 : formerly the period was thirty years ) ; and though this period is sometimes reduced by agreement , the shortening of the period throws a risk on the purchaser , who is not only bound by all legal interests in the land which actually exist whether he discovers them or not , but also by all equitable interests which he would have discovered if he had insisted on an investigation for the longer period . |
| 4 | Yet if this had taken place in her grandmother 's room , he would have found plenty of bottles there , a cupboard-full , going back for two or three years . |
| 5 | I can count the number of trout that I have taken from this lovely loch on the fingers of one hand and blank days are the rule , but I keep going back for more . |
| 6 | He 'd just stopped going back for more . |
| 7 | Time dulls the memory , though , and we keep going back for more . |
| 8 | Go for local dishes and you 'll find yourself going back for more . |
| 9 | Many of them enjoyed their work experience in Picardy so much they are going back for more in their summer holidays . |
| 10 | Keep going back for more and more . |
| 11 | Because , after tonight , there can be no turning back for either of us . ’ |
| 12 | I once saw this same beseeching looseness of eye and mouth in the face of a ragged little faggot on Sunset Boulevard , scorched and peed-on and limping back for more . |
| 13 | We stayed for an hour and a half taking photographs and looking round before wading back for another hour with our ammo boxes again . |
| 14 | The largest slice of our cash comes from the ‘ Charity Shop ’ and so we wish to express our thanks to all those involved with it — those who give goods to sell — those who staff it — those why buy and keep on coming back for more . |
| 15 | People see that as good value for money and keep coming back for more ’ . |
| 16 | Yet he has walked 130 miles with Botham and is coming back for more next week . |
| 17 | I rarely see any of them coming back for more . ’ |
| 18 | The advertisement for the video equivalent of the Mills and Boon novel declares : ‘ Because they 're a branded series , your customers will see one and keep coming back for more ( it may be a new concept in video , but publishers like IPC and Mills and Boon have been doing very nicely on it for years ) ’ ; thus heralding a new departure for the form . |
| 19 | No matter how dismally he fared , he kept coming back for more . |
| 20 | You took all of the abuse , the failures and disappointments , and kept on coming back for more . |
| 21 | Well she 's coming back for more . |
| 22 | I was more the romantic type , being satisfied with a snack , holding the lady on a pedestal for a length of time , and coming back for another wee nibble . |
| 23 | But go up to your room and get your bag packed for what you , ready for you 're not going straight to Leanne 's you 're coming back for half hour or so ? |
| 24 | The Beaver 's 144 cubicfoot interior is divided into a two-seat cockpit and slightly lower 120 cubic-foot four-footwide 52 inch-high main cabin , in which Tony has fitted a pair of three-seat benches , the middle row having a split folding back for easy access to the rear ones . |