Example sentences of "[was/were] going back [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Neighbours said they were going back to the country .
2 ‘ We were going back to the hotel when it happened .
3 He had never forgotten the day in the bide shed when Nutty had told him the horses were going back to the knacker 's , and the fearful panic that had exploded inside him , worse than any brushes with the police or his father , worse than anything he could ever remember .
4 It did not matter that they were going back to the house of the Scarabae .
5 At the official launch of the the new Countrywatch campaign the area 's police chief said bobbies were going back on the beat in rural areas .
6 He he 's arguing I think on a basis of , of the experience of the past few years that the situation now in China was a , was a rather variable one , that land reform had proceeded at different rates in different areas and because areas where different that had to be taken into account and Mao explicitly was going back to the idea that in the newly liberated areas the policy would be one of rent reduction , interest rate reduction and that rent and interest rate reduction had to be established for some time until the position had consolidated around rent reduction , around interest rate reduction and once that had happened you would then be able to go into land reform itself .
7 By not eating I was going back to the security of needing my family , not being relied upon but having someone to rely on instead .
8 Emily left me , mouthing as she went out of the door that she was going back to the office .
9 She was going back to the knacker 's .
10 Rochers town , we were only a short way and we went to this house , we were only young coppers , and we had this friend call on us and we looked out , he was going back into the car and he looked down the street and he said , my God there 's an awful lot of children around here , they must do nothing but screw all the time
11 I went out to the powder-room and as I was going back into the restaurant somebody tapped me on the shoulder .
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