Example sentences of "back [prep] a [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel bitter that while I was out there I was somebody but I 've come back as a third class citizen . |
| 2 | ‘ I never seen anybody come back for a second dose of the blue , ’ said a man behind her , for all the world as though he were safe reminiscing in some bar of his old age . |
| 3 | Should n't we be opening our universities to older people , for people to come back for a second dose as it were , for retraining and so on ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There is still a month of the fitness challenge to run and participants are being invited back for a second assessment . |
| 7 | It is n't known whether the South African Richard Snell will be back for a second year . |
| 8 | But Mr Pillsbury was not asked back for a second interview . |
| 9 | His second-in-command re-divided the men and sent them back for a second search of the places they had searched before . |
| 10 | Go back for a second glance — is that really me ? |
| 11 | ‘ Hopefully , it will be back for a second series in September . |
| 12 | Tory turned back for a last look at the rejected blooms as the ponies moved off . |
| 13 | The film charts the efforts of a dodgy theatre manager trying to lure the singer back for a last encore . |
| 14 | ‘ Then we would probably have a mandatory defence , which we would not duck , and then come back for a third defence against Bruno . ’ |
| 15 | This was enough for the Home Secretary to send the case back for a fourth hearing to the Court of Appeal , with the recommendation that they summon Mathews as a witness to test his credibility . |
| 16 | he was back with a second midway through the first half … and that was that … 2-0 … |