Example sentences of "[vb past] go back [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Seemed to go back and forth between the reservation and the city for a while looking for the right place to be .
2 And erm if they could have given us a proper explanation why they 'd gone back and prove us wrong them fair enough .
3 Oh it 's so funny , cos the second time he could n't , he came back and I think I was upstairs , and she did n't shut the door and I said all four , cos I 've got to pick her up at five , he said oh , anyway he went back , after dinner he 'd gone back and I said told you about it 's five o'clock , he said are you on me .
4 I was quite impressed by this and since he was going back to England that evening I decided to go back as soon as I 'd seen him off .
5 It happened that he decided to go back and found himself commanding a squadron on operations at about the same time that Salmon and Gluxstein as we called the two German battle wagons , decided to leave Brest , head up through the Channel and escape the wrath of the Navy and whatever airborne effort we could produce in the teeth of extraordinarily adverse weather conditions at the time .
6 I resolved to go back and then decided I could n't .
7 The slower pace bored and irritated them so much that they longed to go back and their parents were almost glad to see them off .
8 Flavia longed to go back and slip into her place just as the soup was brought and hear them telling about Loulou 's day .
9 ‘ We saw it go in , ’ said Lyle , ‘ but we could not find it and I had to go back and play three off the tee . ’
10 Then I had to go back and bury my two pets and comfort Annie and Jack .
11 ‘ 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 .
12 So that had to go back and I had to find my Visa card much to the annoyance of people queuing behind me .
13 And then I got all the she 'd mis-changed me so I had to go back and get it .
14 Well I had that with this little locum , but er , a South African , did n't feel a thing , mind you a lot of fillings came out thought just had to go back and have it put in again , but she drilled such a small whole that , that , the dentist I saw , another nice young man , cos my dentist had gone , she 's re-filled it , and going to be alright because her fillings out and it was a bit rough , they did n't sort of goes inwards sort of
15 So we had to go back and swap it for seven to eight
16 No , no , no you 've got it the wrong way round , I went , I brought you here and then I had to go back cos I was in the Royal Marine Police
17 Karen had to go back because that evening there was a Union meeting at the factory and after that , her meeting with Pete and the journalist from the New York Times .
18 Well he said go back and tomorrow at least and
19 Oh probably just did it Do you know what Terry 's do you know what one of my children did today ? do you know what did apart from the fact he spent all day crying then he had to do the corrections , I said go back and do your corrections , said right on your own I wrote something that went no homework done , so he wrote no homework done , no homework done , no homework done !
20 She said , she said and then the thing ca came down and this get up and walk out I said go back and get them and get Joe to take them .
21 Almost every interview-but there was somebody he wanted to go back and see .
22 In 1964 he decided he wanted to go back and finish school , so he took a break .
23 He wanted to go back and find that man , the horse-rider , the man he 'd chosen to die .
24 And anot in a careers officer 's view the other day , that seeing as though they 'd worked there twenty years ago , they wanted to go back and see how it had changed .
25 Her performance brought the house down and as they stood to go back and see her Maggie suddenly realised that Mitch was no longer there .
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