Example sentences of "[verb] go back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main thing is I do n't want to go back into the private sector unless I absolutely have to . |
| 2 | I do not want to go back to the foreign environment of Tbilisi , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Er if you want to go back to the same people . |
| 4 | the reader has to go back to the previous stretch of discourse to establish what This refers to . |
| 5 | A magnificent bookplate of 1899 with , on the male side ( left in picture ) , twelve quarterings , some of which appear to go back to the 13th century . |
| 6 | This determines the level of the water in the cistern so it needs to go back to the same notch |
| 7 | ‘ You wo n't need to go back into the Little Vestry . |
| 8 | But Tory schools minister Michael Fallon , MP for Darlington hit back : ‘ No one wants to go back to the old days of councillors running hospitals , of Nupe deciding whether or not your operations should be carried out . ’ |
| 9 | Thank you very much I think er councillor said that in er Tory erm motions goes against er Conservative er national policy but what it does identify is a very worrying sub text to the Tory policies of the moment because w means testing for hou for housing welfare has gone back to the worst aspects of the nineteen thirties politics basically . |
| 10 | He liked his porter , but if he 'd gone back to the stable … |
| 11 | Burton said that he had promised to go back to the Old Vic for £45 a week to do Hamlet , and he was sticking to it . |
| 12 | She hated having to scan it in reverse rather than just rewind to go back to the same sequence the girl had been watching when she came in but Jezrael had n't thought to check the counter . |
| 13 | If you do n't do it , it 'll be two possibly threeish because you 're not too sure , you 've got to go back to the second appointment and he might do it but then again he may not . |
| 14 | And it more or less made it that we 'd got to go back for the ten and thruppence . |
| 15 | Scots Wha Hae , which some may claim is another emotional dirge , has tremendous credentials ( tune going back to the 14th century and words by our national bard ) . |
| 16 | The privatization bill will probably have to go back to the upper house , whatever happens in the Commons . |
| 17 | Soon there will be nothing left to know and I shall have to go back to the Annual Assessment . |
| 18 | ‘ Could n't we have a second chair ? ’ ventured John Gould , inciting the first major row : ‘ We 'll have to re-think the whole thing ’ says James ‘ we 'll have to go back to the very beginning and re-block it ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I could try going back to the Steering Committee ’ he said ‘ and simply tell them what 's happened . |
| 20 | ‘ Miers could not take the German prisoners on board his sub , and if he had left them to paddle ashore they would immediately have gone back into the German forces … |
| 21 | He also appears to be physically generating a new language , having gone back to the simplest animal and natural cries . |
| 22 | I kept going back to the interesting and varied articles , and I liked the fact that it is neither too career-oriented nor too mumsy . |
| 23 | I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software . |
| 24 | And the explanations they offer go back to the social wholes which form and constrain individual people . |
| 25 | ‘ I would love to go back to the old house … |
| 26 | It 's hardly worth drawing the cheques in certain cases and the capital programme , could n't see it actually when I looked for it first time , had to go back to the pink sheet and found the noughts , now we 're not as generous as we 'd like to be , but at least we try . |
| 27 | Right , and the background to that of course is , for those of you who may not know , Bullett was I suppose a more junior person in the State Department , when he went to Europe with Woodrow Wilson in nineteen eighteen , and nineteen whenever it was for a peace conference , and Bullett was the only one of the American delegation who resigned and confronted Wilson and said , look , you 've gone back on the fourteen points , you 're not doing what you said you would do . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've gone back to the old gods , in defiance to the Church . ’ |
| 29 | The big improvement with the council tax is that we 've gone back to the old system which is 100% rebates for those classified on low income . |
| 30 | The Socialist League and the Scottish Socialist Party had gone back to the Labour Party and many members of the Independent Socialist Party were to do so before long . |