Example sentences of "[coord] go back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the " source " for a story dies , or is out of the country , or has been promised confidentiality , or goes back on what he said , the difficulties of proving the truth of a true statement may be too great . |
| 2 | There is no transport on the island , and to walk in perfect quiet along the little narrow roads , discovering wayside temples and little shrines ; meet a crowd of smiling , noisy children coming out of school ; or to go back to the quayside where fish , vegetables , cheap jewellery , sunglasses , cooked food , hot snacks were all being sold in the open air ; all this was a blissful change from the hectic atmosphere of the city . |
| 3 | It may be possible , while accepting the underlying general principle , to argue against its applicability to nuclear weapons : for instance , by saying that a nuclear bomb is not a chemical weapon as such , the poison gas being a mere incidental by-product ; or to go back to the fundamental prohibition of ‘ weapons that cause unnecessary suffering ’ and argue that the suffering caused by a nuclear weapon is not disproportionate to its military effectiveness . |
| 4 | Yeah I think at the onset of the strike there were a few people who were considered likely to be forced to get back to work or to go back to work , because of what they 'd said , because of well just you know because of what they say in the meetings or because of what they did n't say in the meetings . |
| 5 | Which was worse — staying here for the night or going back with him to the hotel ? |
| 6 | ‘ Are you going to stay here or go back to the Villa Fiesole ? ’ |
| 7 | If society is to impose extra burdens on farmers ' costs of production in order to preserve or go back to an idyllic view of the countryside , which may never have existed anyway , it must pay for it . |
| 8 | Before the weekend was out she would know whether she should stay or go back to London . |
| 9 | Stay out here or go back into the classroom , she did n't want to be found out there if by any chance Miss Graining the Head came by . |
| 10 | Sometimes we go to university , or go back to university . |
| 11 | At that stage any pressure may be such a test for faith that the believer is faced with a choice : Give up or go back to square one . |
| 12 | In 1939 we were all in England when Pop came back from Burma to decide what we should do — stay in England during the war , or go back to Burma . |
| 13 | Or go back to your flat and have to cope with more poison pen letters — and the press ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I would hope if sufficient parents support me they will either postpone the tests until Easter , by which time the children will have some idea of what it is like , or go back to the previous system . |
| 15 | Anxiety for example , is something that human beings will always experience , and to think that you can free them from anxiety in some future utopia , or go back to some ordered erm , ideal state in the past , where everyone was so secure , that they would never feel anxiety , is just a myth according to Freud . |
| 16 | Or go back to HQ , and try to think up a few lines of enquiry for the staff there to pursue — men and women looking progressively more unwashed and unkempt and incompetent as the small hours of the morning gradually wore on . |
| 17 | Or go back to your local paper to the end of the war to see if they were all honorary . |
| 18 | Lawton shuffled uneasily , but did n't try and contradict her or go back on his description . |
| 19 | It was quite coincidental that June , by her search for a new life in California , drew him towards what would be the hub of the rest of his life and it was touch and go whether he stayed or went back to Neptune . |
| 20 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 21 | All I want is silence , and to go back to my father 's house . ’ |
| 22 | In order to fit and to go back to work on Monday morning . |
| 23 | Now , this is not an Oxford cartoon either , but it 's a looting soldier , and very much , I think , underlines what people felt about soldiers around the place , and to go back to the overcrowding , erm the great problem was that constantly not only soldiers , but a great many other people , court officials , court servants , barbers , whoever , erm all had to found accommodation , and because St Aldate 's was so near the court , a great many of them were of course connected with the court , they had some high ranking ones . |
| 24 | This central role for private property has a long history in European thought and goes back to the eighteenth-century notion of the social contract . |
| 25 | Howard escapes from the hospital and goes back to the scene of the robbery where everything is strangely familiar . |
| 26 | Grand Prix racing existed long before the formation of the World Championship in 1950 , and goes back to 1906 when the first French Grand Prix was run . |
| 27 | She turns and goes back to the house . |
| 28 | He 's got very he 's very sensitive cells in his nose because , cos a dog used to be a hunting dog , and goes back to being a wolf , they used to track their prey to eat so they 've still got that ability and we have n't , but a dog has , it can smell . |
| 29 | She loses interest and goes back to the television . |
| 30 | Mrs Tamm turns on her heel and goes back to her desk . |