Example sentences of "gone back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it has gone back towards the middle and as of this moment , drug abuse worldwide is worse than ever . ’ |
| 2 | But Steve had gone back to the match , his face rigid with anticipation . |
| 3 | He also appears to be physically generating a new language , having gone back to the simplest animal and natural cries . |
| 4 | By mid-season Lotus had given up and gone back to the 72 . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've gone back to the old gods , in defiance to the Church . ’ |
| 6 | Fred Couples , the Americans ' man of the season so far but who did not play last week , has gone back to the top amid a wholesale reshuffle . |
| 7 | Hypnotists working for the police ask an individual , most commonly a witness or a victim , to imagine that he has gone back to the time of the crime . |
| 8 | When the men had gone back to the Inn Allen dropped out of the tree and ran down the slope to her . |
| 9 | ‘ The verderers have gone back to the Ridgery . ’ |
| 10 | He liked his porter , but if he 'd gone back to the stable … |
| 11 | He pointed to experiments in the process two and a half centuries before ( and could , in fact , have gone back to the fifteenth century ) . |
| 12 | Glowing with hope , Hank had gone back to the garage and pruned and polished . |
| 13 | Bewildered and hurt at her lack of interest , too shy to ask what the trouble was , he had gone back to the garage completely mystified , and had spent the rest of the evening painting his jalopy electric blue . |
| 14 | It does n't seem to have had as bad an effect on a lot of people as it might appear — they have n't immediately turned round and gone back to the very worst anti-gay feeling . |
| 15 | The men had gone back to the bunk shelf and their feet swung , threatening and powerful , beside his face . |
| 16 | No one noticed that Bienvida , her grandmother 's granddaughter more than her mother 's child , had at some stage gone back to the Headmaster 's Flat and changed into dungarees to keep her Oxfam dress of nylon organza from getting dirty . |
| 17 | She banged her fists against the door , and yelled and screamed , but the ‘ broth ’ had gone back to the kitchen . |
| 18 | It is er as I see it they 've gone back to the drawing board with where the bands are actually how it 's banded . |
| 19 | It took a long time , so long that Sylvie had almost given up , had gone back to the clinic several times . |
| 20 | He had thought Lehmann had died intestate that his vast fortune had gone back to the Seven . |
| 21 | Having escorted Felicity Suvarov around St Mark 's cathedral , Julia had gone back to the Danieli hotel and shared some lunch with her . |
| 22 | Fenella had gone back to the bed-chamber and pulled on her boots and found the warm woollen cloak she had brought from Renascia while Caspar had raided the sculleries and packed the maps . |
| 23 | In this case , sometime before we reached Ixyphal , she had gone back to the storage and cargo area to look at the sculpture again , murmuring things like ’ masterpiece ’ and ’ magnificent ’ and the usual art-appreciation noises that people murmur . |
| 24 | She had never gone back to the beach . |
| 25 | There had been a light snowfall the previous night but it looked as if someone else had been here , visited the witch then gone back to the line of trees , covering their tracks by using a switch of old branches so no imprint could be seen . |
| 26 | Kronweiser 's suspicions were set at rest , and he had gone back to the States . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Because he had gone back to the woodlands where the trees were . |
| 29 | ‘ Why , Rohan has gone back to the Haut-Médoc . |
| 30 | I note that the Opposition 's tax plans have gone back to the drawing board ; after five years of careful preparation , they have been ditched in a period of five weeks . |