Example sentences of "[verb] back [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lost John 's Cave is found very easily by rounding the end of the wall on the right and walking back alongside for 180 yards to a hollow where a small stream enters a black cavity in a low cliff ; a few yards further over a small rise is another less obvious orifice . |
| 2 | ‘ It was dry work , ’ Menzies summed up , ‘ so I came back then for some refreshment . |
| 3 | In the future , the time may come when we need that land back again for growing food , but if the top-soil has been damaged by development it will be worse than useless . |
| 4 | I doubt the other old thing will be moving back there for many a long month . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Your father should go back home for some years and take you with him . |
| 6 | ‘ I — I did n't come back just for that , ’ she confessed , looking up into his proud , handsome face . |
| 7 | Well A Alison goes out for one evening so that means I have to get back early for that evening |
| 8 | So he took it , and played something soft and sad , something plaintive and melancholy that rose up every third line as if it was going to shake off its sorrow and fly forward and free ; but then in the fourth it curled back on itself and fell again : reluctantly , sometimes , but always resignedly , as if it knew it was going to fall ; as if it had been striving and falling back again for hundreds of years . |
| 9 | ‘ The waiters only ever come back here for one reason , ’ Josie explained in a low voice . |