Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] back for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The buyer will customarily ask for accounts ranging back for three years in respect of the activities of the management company . |
| 2 | This type of question goes back for several generations , and small children are able to answer freely without any effort or strain on their part . |
| 3 | We called for some fish and chips to take back for all of us , but I was n't sure that I could eat them after seeing that documentary where they all had ulcers . |
| 4 | ‘ I think what I 'm asking for a pair of shoes is fair enough though I am keeping the prices low as an incentive for my customers to come back for more . ’ |
| 5 | I must just run up to the Casa to make sure the lorry comes back for another load . |
| 6 | Traffic tailed back for twelve miles . |
| 7 | ( Three months later , to our mutual delight , The Mortgage Corporation came back for another £100 million . ) |
| 8 | The proportion of rooms held back for this purpose is renegotiated annually : Winter has agreed to continue the 1985 arrangements over the following summer , i.e. 30 per cent over June-August and 15 per cent in May and September . |
| 9 | The North expect to have Peter Winterbottom back for next Saturday 's Divisional Championship decider against London at Otley . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | These papers — entitled ‘ Performance Measurement : A Challenge for Total Quality and the Accounting Professions ’ and ‘ Competitive Benchmarking : Using Customer Feed Back for Superior Performance Standards ’ — were very well received and the tour as a whole was extremely successful . |
| 13 | Then she turned towards the stairs , resisting with all her strength the temptation to turn back for one last glance of the man who 'd sent her normally sane and steady world into turmoil . |