Example sentences of "and [verb] back for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When the full meeting of commissioners also failed to agree " without the authority of their lords " , they made a truce until 5 November and reported back for further instructions . |
| 3 | Even when he 'd roared full-blooded into a spiny bush in pursuit of a tennis ball , he 'd ignore our gasps and head back for more . |
| 4 | But Karen lapped it up and came back for more . |
| 5 | The teaching team , many of whom had not been involved in community interpreting before , rose to the challenge and fought , argued and demanded and came back for more . |
| 6 | They had had many rows like this , and it was a measure of how far their relationship had come that Edward , while sometimes scorched by the depth of Erica 's cynicism , fought his corner without descending into rage and came back for more . |
| 7 | I once saw this same beseeching looseness of eye and mouth in the face of a ragged little faggot on Sunset Boulevard , scorched and peed-on and limping back for more . |
| 8 | I was more the romantic type , being satisfied with a snack , holding the lady on a pedestal for a length of time , and coming back for another wee nibble . |
| 9 | this is just one of thirty sessions a week for Swindon 's young swimmers … lack of facilities and pool time dictates they start at the crack of dawn and go back for more at dusk … |
| 10 | Eventually he limped into the channel , recovered his breath , and went back for more . |
| 11 | ‘ I can manage , ’ he said brusquely , threw them down , and went back for more . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | That same Heinkel managed to escape to the Firth of Forth , turn , and move back for another attack run . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | So I 'd gone all the way down there and come back for half price basically , and lost on it . |
| 16 | ‘ But I might just feign insanity some day and come back for another cup of that damned fine coffee . ’ |
| 17 | Come out now and come back for another go at the weekend . |
| 18 | The girl shut her eyes and gripped back for dear life . |