Example sentences of "his [noun] go back to [art] " in BNC.
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1 | But his eyes went back to the Workshops and he frowned and sought for the right thing to say . |
2 | As his eyes went back to the old lady , she saw the smile turn on again , and quick suspicion kindled in her breast . |
3 | His mind went back to the familiar and unanswerable question : who killed Newley ? |
4 | Once Ranulf had gone , Athelstan sat on the altar steps , his mind going back to the corpses he had seen : Vechey 's lying cold amongst those dreadful heads on the tower gate of London Bridge ; Brampton 's sheathed in dirty canvas in the death house of St Mary Le Bow ; Springall 's lying alone under its leather covering in the great four poster bed in his mansion . |
5 | His inspiration goes back to the early idea of Charles Frank , plus the fact that muon catalysed fusion was observed in 1956 by accident and the interest has grown in fits and starts ever since . |
6 | His researches go back to the 1950s : ‘ I was always fascinated by history — I spent five years as an architecture student and the reason why I did n't get through was that by the end I was much more interested in the history of architecture than other aspects of the subject , ’ he recalls . |
7 | His hands are tight across my back , then he lets go and as I walk out of the room his face goes back to the letters . |