Example sentences of "back for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm going to recommend that you are taken off duty immediately and sent back for a three-month intensive retraining schedule , ’ |
| 2 | THE death of a father-of-four , mown down as he cycled home from the shops , has brought tragic memories flooding back for a young mother . |
| 3 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |
| 4 | Held back for a long time by wild hitting , she has accepted in the last 12 months that there are occasions when she must suppress the urge to attack everything flat out . |
| 5 | So Eddie knows the real Delia Forbes has gone away and wo n't be back for a long time … but so what ? ’ |
| 6 | so I thought you were going to cos you did n't come back for a long time . |
| 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 | Go back for a second glance — is that really me ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is n't known whether the South African Richard Snell will be back for a second year . |
| 11 | But Mr Pillsbury was not asked back for a second interview . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | His second-in-command re-divided the men and sent them back for a second search of the places they had searched before . |
| 14 | There is still a month of the fitness challenge to run and participants are being invited back for a second assessment . |
| 15 | ‘ Hopefully , it will be back for a second series in September . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | It goes back for a hundred years or more . |
| 18 | One admires the results as one might standing back for a painted landscape , yet I miss the sensation of really ‘ being there ’ . |
| 19 | I found it so interesting I will certainly be going back for a closer look . ’ |
| 20 | The path follows the road out of Port Isaac and at the top it 's worth glancing back for a final look at this fascinating place . |
| 21 | There was no time to raise it and draw back for a stabbing blow . |
| 22 | It was Hibs and not Rangers who looked as if they were the ones holding something back for a bigger midweek game to come . |
| 23 | They all just came back for a regular routine follow up , just a little bit late . |
| 24 | The bond which had drawn them so close before Angel 's birth was strong and sometimes Sarah longed to be back for a brief time in that dilapidated house in Stone Alley , free of the sanctimonious atmosphere of the rectory , until she remembered Maggie was n't there any more either . |
| 25 | The film charts the efforts of a dodgy theatre manager trying to lure the singer back for a last encore . |
| 26 | Tory turned back for a last look at the rejected blooms as the ponies moved off . |
| 27 | If the complaint turns out to be more serious or if agreement can not be reached on a resolution , it must be referred back for a full investigation . |
| 28 | In one instance , a stock of thousands of BBC props had been sold off this year for £75,000 yet the BBC later spent £1,100 renting just three items back for a few weeks . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She wriggled in outrage , but when he caught her head between his hands , pulling back for a few moments to stare intently into her face , she stopped fighting . |