Example sentences of "go back for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Upon a sale of land the purchaser is normally entitled to have produced to him and to investigate the deeds recording previous transactions in the land going back for fifteen years ( Law of Property Act 1969 : formerly the period was thirty years ) ; and though this period is sometimes reduced by agreement , the shortening of the period throws a risk on the purchaser , who is not only bound by all legal interests in the land which actually exist whether he discovers them or not , but also by all equitable interests which he would have discovered if he had insisted on an investigation for the longer period . |
| 2 | Yet if this had taken place in her grandmother 's room , he would have found plenty of bottles there , a cupboard-full , going back for two or three years . |
| 3 | I can count the number of trout that I have taken from this lovely loch on the fingers of one hand and blank days are the rule , but I keep going back for more . |
| 4 | He 'd just stopped going back for more . |
| 5 | Time dulls the memory , though , and we keep going back for more . |
| 6 | Go for local dishes and you 'll find yourself going back for more . |
| 7 | Many of them enjoyed their work experience in Picardy so much they are going back for more in their summer holidays . |
| 8 | Keep going back for more and more . |
| 9 | But what you 're doing here I think it is er , er an example of the partnership , a partnership that goes back for many years , certainly during World War Two and I think er it is still strong and er holds firm today the partnership between the United States and Great Britain . |
| 10 | I belong to a family which goes back for 14 centuries . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This type of question goes back for several generations , and small children are able to answer freely without any effort or strain on their part . |
| 13 | She 's with a boy our age — a toy boy — and though he deserts her for young girls and even beats her up — she 's such a sucker for punishment , she goes back for more . |
| 14 | He 's determined to go back for that bag , are n't you ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Refused to go back for any more . |
| 17 | On the other hand , he can ask for provisional damages and get a lesser sum now which may seem unattractive even though he can go back for more later . |
| 18 | You never really sort of said well was it , was it a slipped disc or is it gone or have you got ta go back for any more tests or anything like that er and bearing in mind that he also said he was keen on sports and he played tennis and so on , you could 've had the opportunity there to say oh have your back problem , back troubles made in difference to you in that area ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And they er locked us out until we 'd go back for ten and thruppence a day , so of course we did n't go back . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Eventually he limped into the channel , recovered his breath , and went back for more . |
| 23 | Burton describes being ‘ between the two men I most feared ’ but nevertheless , and with all that was hanging on the part , he went back for more . |
| 24 | ‘ I can manage , ’ he said brusquely , threw them down , and went back for more . |
| 25 | Perhaps I 'll break , go back for good . |
| 26 | ‘ You 're a brave man if you go back for another of these things , ’ he adds , gesturing at a dodgy-looking sausage sandwich . |
| 27 | 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 … |
| 28 | With each of is lost a distinctive system of concepts , a system for encoding and encapsulating experience , and a literature of songs and stories that probably contain elements that go back for thousands of years . |
| 29 | " No , he 's gone back for sure , " said Hazel . |