Example sentences of "back [adv] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lost John 's Cave is found very easily by rounding the end of the wall on the right and walking back alongside for 180 yards to a hollow where a small stream enters a black cavity in a low cliff ; a few yards further over a small rise is another less obvious orifice . |
| 2 | Yeah I 'll just put them back in for twenty seconds just to get them up to heat , keep your eye on this Paul , it 'll go over if you do n't |
| 3 | Back home for one day — one day — and already she 's smaller . |
| 4 | ‘ The waiters only ever come back here for one reason , ’ Josie explained in a low voice . |
| 5 | So it means being back here for five do we |
| 6 | So he took it , and played something soft and sad , something plaintive and melancholy that rose up every third line as if it was going to shake off its sorrow and fly forward and free ; but then in the fourth it curled back on itself and fell again : reluctantly , sometimes , but always resignedly , as if it knew it was going to fall ; as if it had been striving and falling back again for hundreds of years . |