Example sentences of "back for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must be with my Minister at ten but I 'll come back for the funeral … or if anyone else wants to talk to me … ’ |
| 2 | If you are aiming to go back for a landing , only stay long enough in that thermal to get properly centred before moving off again down to 1500 feet and starting to look for the next bit of lift . |
| 3 | They went back for chairs and then the laird , the factor , and the minister sat down weightily , like judges . |
| 4 | ‘ Ah well , ’ he said finally , ‘ if he tried to get his own back for his son 's trouble , we will have to crack his head too , ’ and he swept off into the dance . |
| 5 | Next morning I checked the typing for errors and sent it back for correction . |
| 6 | In one week I listened to the English boy singing the praises of my dark colouring and frizzy hair , felt him kiss me on the cheek with obvious pleasure whenever I cooked a meal and when I came in from work , or when we sat watching television together , and found him waiting for me at the end of the road when I was late back for some reason . |
| 7 | Unable to meet the huge cost of the highly specialised asbestos de-contamination work then demanded of the entire Pullman set , SLOA agreed to sell the Pullmans to industrialist Sir William McAlpine ( better known to railway enthusiasts as the owner of Flying Scotsman ) and to hire them back for steam-charter use once the asbestos stripping work was complete . |
| 8 | Ferranti 's annual meeting , adjourned until 10 October , will now almost inevitably be put back for a further four to six weeks in the light of recent events . |
| 9 | Then we went back for the long-service merit awards . |
| 10 | Mr Young said that now the trust had its core holdings , the second tranche of money would be invested more slowly with some held back for new opportunities . |
| 11 | The small ones will be kept back for seed , and anything damaged by worms or excavation will become cattle fodder ; but all the rest go for chips . |
| 12 | Most of the third-year students had been back for a month already , desperately trying to catch up with their second-year work . |
| 13 | That leaves £7.7m to be distributed but Mr Jordan said some of this would still have to be held back for litigation . |
| 14 | Railway stock sent from Black Sea ports to another area , the Middle Volga , was not sent back for more grain , but for the most part ended up in Siberia . |
| 15 | The remaining things she could come back for any day . |
| 16 | As the train pulled out of the station she searched back for Moran 's face among the crowd and found it and waved . |
| 17 | In one direction only a little earthy bank separates me from the edge of the ocean , while in the other the valley goes back for miles and miles . |
| 18 | It goes back for ever . |
| 19 | Pete finds this hilarious ; he has been dying to get his own back for various things for ages and this comes close to the perfect opportunity . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | We pack in the fishing ; Odd-Knut pronounces the last of the worms dead and suggests we all come back for another go in April . |
| 22 | Sport offers spontaneity which , combined with ever more sophisticated technology , allows a viewer to watch a game from many different angles , moving in for a close-up on the agonized or exultant face of the athlete , or panning back for a shot of the pitch , track , or the seashore during an Open golf championship . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll be back for refills . ’ |
| 24 | I have long dark hair which I have to wear tied back for college . |
| 25 | Nicol should be back for Liverpool after missing three matches with a neck injury and Hooper , the reserve goalkeeper , is also in the squad . |
| 26 | The bomb that killed President Muawad appeared to have defeated or at least set back for many months the Arab initiative spearheaded by Morocco , Algeria and Saudi Arabia . |
| 27 | Investors have been expecting its publication for the last two weeks but are fearful it will be kept back for the week when Parliament goes into the Christmas recess . |
| 28 | In the US , buyers will have to hold back for 90 days after the issue because of Securities Exchange Commission restrictions on overseas dealings . |
| 29 | In the US , buyers will have to hold back for 90 days after the issue because of Securities Exchange Commission restrictions on overseas dealings . |
| 30 | However , delegates from the Black Consciousness Movement ( BCM ) failed to endorse the resolutions which had been hammered out in hours of debate and decided instead to take them back for further discussions by its supporters . |