Example sentences of "to go back and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be difficult to go back and admit this . |
| 2 | It is no good claiming self-defence if , having beaten your attacker to the ground , you then decide to go back and stamp all over his or her helpless body . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd better move if I 'm going to go back and change . ’ |
| 4 | But you 've also got that that that you notice well down the erm the expenditure on a project , that you 're gon na have to have to go back and change something that should have been sorted out at the start . |
| 5 | what Alan intends to do is write to all line managers and ask them to go back and review their appraisal erm documents for every member of staff they 've appraised . |
| 6 | I was prepared to go back and copy . |
| 7 | ‘ He has to go back and sort out the transfer situation , which is very messy . ’ |
| 8 | You what , do n't be so stupid we 've got to go back and tell him , we ca n't do things like that . |
| 9 | In 1964 he decided he wanted to go back and finish school , so he took a break . |
| 10 | Erm I just want to go back and talk about a few things we just touched on earlier . |
| 11 | Well , I 'd like to go back and talk to you about the exclusion clauses though , and the purchasing power of the people buying these things . |
| 12 | Erm , I probably would have done because I made lots of mistakes and I could n't be bothered to go back and check them ! |
| 13 | I want to go back and visit her . |
| 14 | Whether he is sober enough to go back and fetch his dilapidated car , or should soldier on , is the question here , or at any rate part of it . |
| 15 | As Gabriel was watching , the cart stopped at the top of the hill , and the driver climbed down to go back and fetch something that had fallen off . |
| 16 | After some time of searching for the right facility they have had to go back and build something anew . |
| 17 | If he signs it that indicates that he has accepted what you 've jointly agreed , and then you 've got something , a milestone , something to go back and measure yourselves against and to justify what you 've done against erm the fees that , that you 're invoicing the client for , if the client at s at some stage decides perhaps that 's not really what he wanted after all . |
| 18 | Do you really want to go back and make tea ? ’ |
| 19 | Soon she was quite alone , and wondering whether or not to go back and make her way around by the fields . |
| 20 | This , this , you know , is saying something very , very simple , it 's telling you straight away , okay it 's , it is , it is quite nice to have the quote in there again as I say , if somebody , if somebody is trying to do a little advance story , to say , you could all , you could from there you could actually write something which , without having to go back and make a phone call . |
| 21 | ‘ The trouble with using a Hasselblad is that you black out after each shot , and in the first session I 'd cut off the arms in one or two shots , so I had to go back and re-shoot those . |
| 22 | The person gathering the data would first have to register the churches ; then they would have to go back and record the sculptures kept in each ; it would take another visit to catalogue the paintings ; another for the liturgical vestments , and so on . |
| 23 | All this in a foreign country , for them a long way from home to go back and consult . |
| 24 | Erm , how often do you go to a meeting or have you been to a meeting , which has to stop for twenty minutes because some clown has left the files in his office , and he has to go back and retrieve them . |
| 25 | If you make a mistake , it 's just not possible to go back and retrieve it , and for a selector to say , ‘ Well , I do n't think this person 's made a very good case , I 'm sure if we gave them another chance they would make a better one . ’ |
| 26 | See the thing is , what they 've said to me , because I 've been away now for nearly two years erm I 'd have to go back and do all the training again , which is a bit of a pain but its not too bad because I 've done it before sort of thing , she said to me oh yeah when you go I , I might come along and see if I like it , and we can do the training together she said , I manage to put her off that idea , manage to talk her out of that . |
| 27 | It is not open to the promisor to go back and undo the loss ; he is able only to make it good , and this can be done only by an award of damages in the amount of the promisee 's interest . |
| 28 | For a craven moment she was tempted to go back and throw herself on the mercy of the landlady . |
| 29 | But those Somerville years remain with us , and the friends , and the ageless dons , some livelier , more liberal , than one ever knew ; and it 's good to go back and recall old times , good and bad . |
| 30 | The only way he could make amends was to go back and kill himself . ’ |