Example sentences of "and [verb] back for " 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 | Well really when I had the same thing , you know , and goes back for a little bit this morning and er same sort of thing . |
| 3 | A careful dusting off of the electronics , and a pull off and push back for every ribbon and power connector , restored reliable operation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | An attack would have been tantamount to committing suicide , so reluctantly Stirling gave orders to leave the town and head back for the rendezvous with the LRDG . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But Karen lapped it up and came back for more . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Would n't it be a poor thing to have the man close his shop and walk back for a kind of half-hearted snack . |
| 13 | If you stir enough of them together and stand back for a few hundred million years , the result is likely to be a chemical entity capable of reproducing itself — one of the fundamental differences between living and nonliving material . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There was no time to raise it and draw back for a stabbing blow . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Then we saw that Boniface of Eastbourne had already headed for home , so we turned and started back for our good harbour . |
| 18 | I 'm going to recommend that you are taken off duty immediately and sent back for a three-month intensive retraining schedule , ’ |
| 19 | I 'll leave you in the ditch near the gate I know of and go back for my horse . ’ |
| 20 | 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 … |
| 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 | Most of the St Joseph 's boys and girls finished everything on their plates — and went back for seconds or even thirds . |
| 24 | ‘ I can manage , ’ he said brusquely , threw them down , and went back for more . |
| 25 | Then it turned around and went back for a drink of water . |
| 26 | That same Heinkel managed to escape to the Firth of Forth , turn , and move back for another attack run . |
| 27 | He moved swiftly , opening the door to the corridor and standing back for her to go through . |
| 28 | ‘ I sold for £25 million and bought back for £17 million . |
| 29 | When I mentioned this to my father he said he had to drive up that way and would take me in the car and call back for me within a couple of hours . |
| 30 | Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there . |