Example sentences of "[verb] back for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation was desperate : Holmes was away on a case , and not expected back for some time . |
| 2 | He said as he stepped on the ‘ plane : ‘ I would love to come back for another season at Portadown — but no-one has said anything to me . |
| 3 | And they came back for another fortnight of re-building ! |
| 4 | On 7 July Amedeo wrote a card to his mother telling her , somewhat cruelly , that as Italy was now in the war , he had thought that he might be called back for military service , even though he was an invalid and had felt a slight desire to return to Italy . |
| 5 | We stayed for an hour and a half taking photographs and looking round before wading back for another hour with our ammo boxes again . |
| 6 | When it has stopped coming , he drops the body and goes back for another lamb and another , creeping down the earthen steps with his blood-stained knife and his feet and ankles splashed with red . |
| 7 | Your Royal Highness , it follows to me er Council have debated the Riding Report er a lot of it they did not accept , many of the ideas were referred back for further reconsideration and that is in the hands of the Central Management Committee at the moment and we are proposing to develop the ideas and come back to Council and the wh whole report is not forgotten . |
| 8 | He 's determined to go back for that bag , are n't you ? |
| 9 | I find some people on the streets are quite like , pigheaded and they do n't really want to go back for some reason really . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | After a short lying-in-state at the Abbey of St Denis the remains were shipped back for eventual burial at Westminster , some two months after the death had taken place . |
| 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 | I could not go back for some time as the Germans had obviously built up their air force to great strength , so I threw in my lot with Fulham church in my rare off-duty times . |
| 14 | Frequently we stopped , turned and went back for another try to the left or right Our order did not change , with Odd-Knut out in front , then Tony and Nathan , and me bringing the line to an end . |
| 15 | Charles reappeared , after half an hour 's absence , and threw himself into an armchair , where he lay back for some time with his eyes shut . |
| 16 | Each school 's proposal is read by the DCSL , Divisional Librarian and the ACL:E&SS , and accepted or sent back for further refinement as required . |
| 17 | The remaining things she could come back for any day . |
| 18 | The adviser can only hope that if the client was put at her ease while at the bureau then she may come back for further help when that issue could be picked up for suitable referral . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | That same Heinkel managed to escape to the Firth of Forth , turn , and move back for another attack run . |
| 21 | I have no research to prove that it is an effective relaxation technique , but everyone who has experienced it asks for it when they come back for more treatment . ’ |
| 22 | I have no research to prove that it is an effective relaxation technique , but everyone who has experienced it asks for it when they come back for more treatment . ’ |
| 23 | We pack in the fishing ; Odd-Knut pronounces the last of the worms dead and suggests we all come back for another go in April . |
| 24 | Come out now and come back for another go at the weekend . |
| 25 | instead of having , I mean you do n't think at the time , but what she should of said was can I go away , come back for another interview another day , which means she , she 's |
| 26 | ‘ But I might just feign insanity some day and come back for another cup of that damned fine coffee . ’ |
| 27 | So I 'd gone all the way down there and come back for half price basically , and lost on it . |
| 28 | Around fifty works of art will include : four Eastern Zhou bronze vessels dating from the fifth century BC , cast in two different alloys of bronze and inlaid with a design incorporating small pieces of malachite , paste and copper wire ; a bronze male figure of the third to fourth century BC , supporting a candlestick ; of a similar date and from a royal treasury is a bronze and silver ox inlaid with a complex pattern of curved scrolls ; a gold and turquoise garment-hook in the form of three intertwined dragons ; a group of Tang figures including an ochre camel in unglazed earthenware ; and a twelfth-century carved wooden figure of a seated Bodhisattva , last shown in London at Eskenazi 's in 1972 and purchased back for this exhibition . |
| 29 | In the event , the document proved so unacceptable that after two days ' debate it was sent back for thorough revision . |
| 30 | Railway stock sent from Black Sea ports to another area , the Middle Volga , was not sent back for more grain , but for the most part ended up in Siberia . |