Example sentences of "[vb past] back for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They all just came back for a regular routine follow up , just a little bit late . |
| 2 | When I was driving my new Granada in 1989 and dropped a friend down the road , a police car came past , saw the car with a black man driving it , circled round and came back for a second check . |
| 3 | The parents of the kids at the school where Mrs Rogers taught had her barred from the school , in case the hit squad came back for a second try . |
| 4 | With the playback that in fact erm as has said it showed me what in fact I was doing right and wrong , erm I 've been on television before once when I was running the London marathon but this time it was actually me and me alone in a work element and I could in fact see what I was doing and why I was doing it and understand in fact the corrections from the morning to in fact the afternoon presentation when I came back for the second one . |
| 5 | ‘ An alternative theory is that the killer knocked him out first , then went into the washroom to strip and came back for the final throat-cutting before Berowne had a chance to come round . |
| 6 | He told me , before I first went to England in 1947 , to make sure I came back for the next Australian season so that I would be eligible for selection for the '48 tour . |
| 7 | Tory turned back for a last look at the rejected blooms as the ponies moved off . |
| 8 | And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’ |
| 9 | I hesitated , then went back for the indigo wrap . |
| 10 | Then we went back for the long-service merit awards . |
| 11 | ‘ When you 've finished , it 'll look like a snooker table , ’ he said cheerfully , and , reversing deftly , he went back for the next lot . |
| 12 | I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time . |
| 13 | There was wild thyme growing up here too , and as she lay back for a few blissful moments ' rest its delicate perfume assailed Robbie 's nostrils — another sensory memory to be stored away , she thought wistfully . |
| 14 | I 'm going to recommend that you are taken off duty immediately and sent back for a three-month intensive retraining schedule , ’ |