Example sentences of "back for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll get this train stopped and we 'll go back for the lost car . |
| 2 | Now if they 're multiplied or divided then you ca n't say , Oh well I 'll just take this bit and do that and then I 'll come back for the other one . |
| 3 | Not going to pay me back for the bloody nose , even if you did nearly knock my head off ? ’ |
| 4 | However , when music is written for a specific text , the maximum musical climax must be kept back for the decisive point in the words . |
| 5 | ‘ I guess you 'll be getting back for the Soviet visit , now . ’ |
| 6 | He decided it would take less time to break the copyguards than to go back for the correct disc . |
| 7 | Crowther , 59 , hopes to be back for the new series next year , but wo n't be well enough for the show on January 2 . |
| 8 | Come back for the new herons ? |
| 9 | ‘ Probably not , though I 'll be back for the following weekend . |
| 10 | In a moment , the monster rose , lurching slightly , and started to head back for the dark tower . |
| 11 | ‘ Mill crushed Hammer with a three-goal blitz midway through the second half , and their was no way back for the gallant losers . |
| 12 | I hesitated , then went back for the indigo wrap . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | That will earn him his RIBA Part I. But then , he has to get a year 's relevant experience in practice before coming back for the final year of his course . |
| 15 | But there was no going back for the impoverished Miss Theodosia Kyte . |
| 16 | India certainly got its own back for the British Raj by imposing this horrific version of the bungalow upon us . |
| 17 | In fact , the proposed mass redundancy in and around the mining industry was probably the straw that broke the camel 's back for the British people . |
| 18 | Then we went back for the long-service merit awards . |
| 19 | After a week , Shaun calls back for the full container and drops off a new one . |
| 20 | He escaped with Bean from the tea table as soon as possible and slipped out of the house , heading back for the open spaces of the industrial estate . |
| 21 | The lowering of interest rates last year provided extra spending power for the family but , as Mr Ingram , 34 , pointed out , that will probably now just be kept back for the rainy days to come in 1994 . |
| 22 | The players , 21 from 28 of whom will be back for the coming season , will be the better for their teething experience ’ . |
| 23 | Indeed , for the local authorities ( many of whom were angry that the Government were treating nationalisation merely as a book-keeping transaction within the public sector and thus paying them little compensation for the takeover ) , the maintenance of uneconomically low prices was one way of getting their own back for the local ratepayers ( who were also usually electricity consumers ) . |