Example sentences of "[verb] back for [det] [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 | We stayed for an hour and a half taking photographs and looking round before wading back for another hour with our ammo boxes again . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He 's determined to go back for that bag , are n't you ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The remaining things she could come back for any day . |
| 13 | That same Heinkel managed to escape to the Firth of Forth , turn , and move back for another attack run . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Come out now and come back for another go at the weekend . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | ‘ But I might just feign insanity some day and come back for another cup of that damned fine coffee . ’ |
| 20 | So I 'd gone all the way down there and come back for half price basically , and lost on it . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I must just run up to the Casa to make sure the lorry comes back for another load . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Look forward to your future with optimism , even though you may have been feeling held back for some time . |