Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] back for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unable to meet the huge cost of the highly specialised asbestos de-contamination work then demanded of the entire Pullman set , SLOA agreed to sell the Pullmans to industrialist Sir William McAlpine ( better known to railway enthusiasts as the owner of Flying Scotsman ) and to hire them back for steam-charter use once the asbestos stripping work was complete . |
| 2 | ‘ I think he 'll be finished for this season , but we 'll bring him back for another crack at the Champion next season , ’ he said . |
| 3 | A spokesperson will then either transition the module into a conceptually approved state or hold it back for further work before approval . |
| 4 | The atmosphere of the Fens and the peculiarities of these strange fish , even after all those years , keep calling me back for more . |
| 5 | ‘ He could start back after Christmas but that would be too late for Cheltenham and there is always the risk that he could do more damage which would set him back for next season . ’ |
| 6 | Go on then and I 'll have mine back for five hundred , yeah |
| 7 | A few weeks later the appointments committee asked him back for another interview ; only one other candidate remained on the shortlist . |
| 8 | ‘ Do not say , ‘ I 'll pay you back for this wrong ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But athletics is like a drug , it keeps dragging you back for more . ’ |
| 10 | However , the seven republican delegations which attended a further meeting on Nov. 25 refused to initial the Treaty , and sent it back for further discussion in the republican Supreme Soviets . |
| 11 | Because once you have let them go you ca n't begin to get them back for another five years . ’ |
| 12 | Who pays you back for that ? ’ |
| 13 | But he felt that McAllister had to pay something back for all the fairy-tales which she had told Matey and himself , and which Matey had so gullibly swallowed . |
| 14 | Quinn said : ‘ Bobby Gould was prepared to take a gamble on me at Coventry , so I will be trying to pay him back for that by scoring even more goals . |
| 15 | Erm and while I was married I bought it back for twenty and a few months later I sell it for ten pound . |
| 16 | Years later , 1948 tourist Doug Ring , speaking at a dinner , thanked George Tribe for not making it back for that crucial pre-tour season . |
| 17 | However , delegates from the Black Consciousness Movement ( BCM ) failed to endorse the resolutions which had been hammered out in hours of debate and decided instead to take them back for further discussions by its supporters . |