Example sentences of "[verb] back [noun sg] after [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And because people knew he was going to do so , they came back night after night to see how things were changed . |
| 2 | The newer breed of botanist was prepared to go back year after year , recording on a more methodical basis , with a longer term view to writing a Flora based upon intimate knowledge of the Outer Hebrides . |
| 3 | Her name , she says , is Elena ; her dark eyes gleam with gay desperation , an impression fuelled by the way she tosses back glass after glass of sparkling wine . |
| 4 | They begged him to let them off this time , but he rang back hour after hour , day , after day : " Sell your car . |
| 5 | Once you have found such a spot you can go back time after time and take fish . |
| 6 | ‘ For some cases , we 'd come back day after day , and chat to people in the queue . |
| 7 | Erm having produced that report and having erm er done the follow up on it , it does n't seem to me that it would be reasonable for the general assembly to expect that the Board would come back year after year with repetitions of what we 've already said , and that 's why the commissioner notices that erm we do n't report this year on child abuse . |
| 8 | ‘ But whatever happens , we would try to keep the event going because so many people support it and come back year after year . ’ |