Example sentences of "went back [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never went back during the military period . |
| 2 | He went back on the last-minute promise to them to delay the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 3 | Oxford Regional Health Authority explained why it went back on the original decision saying , ’ We understood that the law said quite clearly the health authority could not provide treatment in private homes . |
| 4 | Then she changed her mind , and went back to the brimming bath . |
| 5 | I ordered a double portion of chicken and a Seven-Up and went to a table while they went back to the late movie on Channel 4 on a portable television . |
| 6 | Somehow , I knew what existed here went back to the ancient history of my people . |
| 7 | He went back to the small house in which Grégoire lived , and attempted to interview his mother . |
| 8 | ‘ My father called me Breeze , ’ she added , as he seemed interested ; and as she said that her mind went back to the hot summer 's day when her father had given her the nickname which had been adopted by everyone . |
| 9 | Having successfully worked himself out of the job of CBN 's Beirut correspondent , Coleman went back to the Middle East in December 1985 , as Condor Television Ltd , a one-man production company with an ‘ office ’ in the Kastantiana hotel , Larnaca , Cyprus . |
| 10 | The chapel went back to the thirteenth century ; in the Restoration of Charles II Archbishop Frewen gave the house a façade to the river and built a magnificent dining room ; and during the eighteenth century Archbishop Drummond added a Gothic gatehouse and made the surround a charming bit of eighteenth-century Gothic . |
| 11 | I travelled up from Kings Cross with Sidney , Daryl Bligh of the Graphic , K. B. D. Clarke of the Times , ‘ Tibby ’ Tisdale of the News , Stanford Roberts , of course , and I think we had Norton Malley with us , who would at that time I suppose have been on the Morning Post , though he later went back to the Irish Times . |
| 12 | He went back to the shaving mirror to comb his hair and when he had finished he pushed a folded handkerchief into his sleeve with quiet satisfaction . |
| 13 | She picked it up , went back to the two girls and dumped it unceremoniously over Peggy 's head . |
| 14 | Politicians were masters of the quick recovery , Trent thought as he went back to the front room . |
| 15 | They went back to the other room eventually . |
| 16 | When she had undressed and put it on without catching her own eye in the mirror she went back to the other room and dumped the handbag on top of the dressing-table . |
| 17 | Strolling , they pondered public education versus private schooling ; Johnson wondered why boys from England had been sent as far as Aberdeen to be educated , with ‘ so many good schools in England ’ , and they went back to the New Inn , to be joined there by Sir Alexander Gordon , an old friend of Johnson 's , who had sent a card in advance , and through Boswell we join their conversation as it drifts back to the stocking-making . |
| 18 | After I started with Veronica , Mrs D went back to the First Spiritualists . ’ |
| 19 | He put the letter in his Out tray and moved on to another piece of paper , and then he stopped and went back to the first letter . |
| 20 | As the line that seemingly connects the two circle centres needed close scrutiny , I went back to the 1:25,000 scale maps or the area and laid a straight edge along the apparent intersection . |
| 21 | The Doctor who came to see the poor Doc ( a psychoanalyst and neurological specialist ) said that every neurotic case went back to the childish fear of the father . |
| 22 | I finished cleaning my mouth and hands and went back to the dead man 's chamber . |
| 23 | Their life was already hard enough , so I went back to the wild fruit in the woods . |
| 24 | In a kind of rush I went back to the main menu . |
| 25 | The Lady Prioress , anxious about the whereabouts of the Lady Eleanor , left the refectory and went back to the darkened convent building . |
| 26 | She went back to the overgrown ride where she had left Lord Wyatt . |
| 27 | Simon pushed himself away from the table and went back to the hissing kettle to make his coffee . |
| 28 | We talked back and forth and eventually went back to the old Sun studio and did a few tracks down there . |
| 29 | As his eyes went back to the old lady , she saw the smile turn on again , and quick suspicion kindled in her breast . |
| 30 | Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ? |