Example sentences of "went back [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she finished selling the remaining tickets Sally looked around for them , realised what had happened and went back to sit on one of the hard upright chairs which lined the hall . |
| 2 | The little boy went back to sit on the stairs with his seven brothers . |
| 3 | The mother shouted at one of the boys and he went back to sit in the small lorry . |
| 4 | We went back to do one tour , I guess about a month after we quit , around the actual time he went in the Army . ’ |
| 5 | He then formulated a system of fighting derived from the mantis ' movements and went back to do battle with the fighters from other systems . |
| 6 | Once this was understood , it became part of the pattern and both Wilson and Teresa and even the landlord 's son , who slept in the garret , all sighed at the disturbance then turned over and went back to sleep . |
| 7 | He was awakened by a minor earth tremor during the night of the seventh to the eighth , but went back to sleep again and experienced nothing else untoward during the night . |
| 8 | He shut his eye , and went back to sleep . |
| 9 | I replaced my blankets and went back to sleep . |
| 10 | He closed his eyes and went back to sleep . |
| 11 | It took a little time , but he drank the lot and went back to sleep . |
| 12 | Jean-Claude , exhausted by the long ride from Paris and a late night of in-toxication , moaned something unintelligible as I got out of bed , rolled over and promptly went back to sleep . |
| 13 | But , hearing nothing more , she decided that she must have been mistaken and went back to sleep . |
| 14 | Clayson avoids sycophancy , recounting , for instance , the time when George reacted to news of Brian Jones ' death with the comment , ‘ I do n't think Brian had enough love or understanding ’ , and the fact he ‘ just went back to sleep actually ’ when he heard the same new about John Lennon . |
| 15 | He waved it away and went back to sleep . |
| 16 | I decided it was something I 'd eaten and went back to sleep . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I thought you 'd make it for me , ’ Dana faltered ; usually Claudia would leap to do her twin 's bidding , but this morning she told her where the coffee lived , turned her back and went back to sleep . |
| 18 | woke up once but she was good and went back to sleep well . |
| 19 | Ellen caught it in a towel and put it out and went back to sleep . |
| 20 | He opened one eye , glanced at her , then , obviously satisfied that she presented no threat , went back to sleep . |
| 21 | David Swan turned over and went back to sleep . |
| 22 | Clayson avoids sycophancy , recounting , for instance , the time when George reacted to news of Brian Jones ' death with the comment , ‘ I do n't think Brian had enough love or understanding ’ , and the fact he ‘ just went back to sleep actually ’ when he heard the same new about John Lennon . |
| 23 | According to Le Matin , Joffre ( responding in much the same way as he had to General de Langle earlier ) , said ‘ let him do what he wants ’ and then went back to sleep . |
| 24 | But erm after I 'd choked for half an hour she went to sleep I eventually went back to sleep again and |
| 25 | Anyway it did n't matter cos you were very good , and you went back to sleep again in the end then you did n't wake up till after daddy had gone to work this morning ! |
| 26 | Tim jumped on her to wake her up but she only said go away , and went back to sleep again . |
| 27 | stirred I must of , do n't know what happened this morning , I put the alarm off and turned over and went back to sleep again , it was about ten to eight before I finally got up . |
| 28 | I just turned over and went back to sleep . |
| 29 | Then he went back to lie down in the corner of the cell . |
| 30 | They all then went back to collect the boats and their explosives , having an altercation on the way with a black sentry from Somaliland who did not appear to speak much Italian . |