Example sentences of "going back " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you do need to do good voice and movement workouts — it 's like going back to the keyboard for a musician . |
| 2 | The plans are made , work has begun , there is no going back . |
| 3 | That if I 'm not going forward I 'm going back . |
| 4 | I knew once I started that there would be no going back . |
| 5 | Ensure that cutlery which has been cleaned using chemicals gets a thorough washing before going back into the dining room . |
| 6 | One immediate result of my departure from Berkeley was my giving up my flat by the school and going back to London . |
| 7 | Going back to the railway station was for the moment out of the question , just in case I bumped into someone who recognized me . |
| 8 | The idea of going back still made me nervous , though . |
| 9 | That 's what I 'm going back to try and sort out . ’ |
| 10 | It has an immensely old lineage , not merely in Alcuin 's famous vox populi , vox dei ( ‘ the voice of the people is the voice of God ’ ) , but in Jewish societal awareness going back beyond Moses to Hammurabi . |
| 11 | The child 's cognisant acts have the character of perceptions : if an act is done it can not be undone ( ‘ reversed ’ in the jargon ) and so there is no going back and taking another perspective on the question or practical problem . |
| 12 | Going back to a big house and long lawns , Jen ? said Michael Morrissey 's eyes last week . |
| 13 | Going back over previous months ' editions , I found the following : |
| 14 | Going back to amplifiers , the third picture is of Cocking 's Push-pull Quality Amplifier , published by WW in 1934 . |
| 15 | The latter point was silly , coming from a man who has spent much of the last five years persuading his party that the world had changed since May 1979 and that there was no going back . |
| 16 | We are not going back on that , ’ a source said . |
| 17 | Even when told of the embassy 's closure , few seemed alarmed : ‘ Well , they ca n't just leave us here , and we 're not going back , so they 'll have to do something , ’ said one . |
| 18 | ‘ In no way are we going back to a 1979-80 recession . |
| 19 | A woman said : ‘ I 'm going back too and then I 'll return with my four children . ’ |
| 20 | Reminded that he would be going back as one of the 10 per cent , ‘ Jacki ’ let go one of the handsome smiles which have made him so popular , but he qualified that by underlining the discomfort he might feel in that situation . |
| 21 | Hughes , aged29 , has a remarkable record going back to the first women 's World Championships in 1980 including a world gold in 1986 , world bronze in 1987 and two European titles . |
| 22 | You 're going to end up going back up there , you know . |
| 23 | The sky was now getting fairly light , and it would soon be stand-to , so there would be no going back into the trench to get the head down again . |
| 24 | His reply was as confident as usual , ‘ We shall be going back to England most certainly some time next week . |
| 25 | I do not mean being reactionary , simply going back to a past state of affairs , I mean reaction as the antithesis of action . |
| 26 | As in After Strange Gods , he is concerned in his conclusion with a return to sources , that is with going back to the savage and working forwards towards his solution to the problem– of modern industrial life ; again such a movement is presented in terms of a familiar encounter . |
| 27 | As in the Fall narrative , which it resembles in more ways than one , there seems to be no going back ; our original innocence , the wholeness of an original bisexuality , is never retrievable . |
| 28 | Lawrence feels like going back and saying to her ‘ It 's all right , do n't take any notice of that mental lunatic ’ ( p. 304 ) , thereby offering a new inflection of the erotic triangle : intervening between Swift and Celia , Lawrence displaces his own anal neurosis on to Swift while offering his healthy ideal self to Celia — or rather he seeks to become his ideal self in her eyes . |
| 29 | ‘ Mummy , I 'm thinking of going back to college . ’ |
| 30 | Going back into the private sector I was very keen to become a pluralist . |