Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] go back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her I would n't be long and went back down the path . |
| 2 | The street was narrow , cobbled , full of old buildings which were joined together and went back to medieval times . |
| 3 | It 's exciting ; going back together and going back to a country which hopefully is changing . |
| 4 | Whenever that happens , rather than going back to the track I play something else that will fit , or I leave it as an improvisational section , so to speak . |
| 5 | You should have seen Captain Trentham 's face when ‘ e found out that I had chosen a spell in the Fusiliers rather than going back to gaol . ’ |
| 6 | Tolkien too might think of the Norse legend of the ‘ Undying Lands ’ , the Odáinsakr : when King Hadding reached its boundary the witch who guided him killed a cock and threw it over the wall — a moment later he heard the cock crow before he himself had to turn away and go back to mortality . |
| 7 | Increasingly worried , Comfort dried Julia 's face as gently as she could , threw the water away and went back to her chair to watch . |
| 8 | If you get stuck , just put the map away and go back to it later . |
| 9 | Amiss left thankfully and went back to his researches in the library . |
| 10 | Her head full of these questions , she turned wearily and went back into the kitchen . |
| 11 | They struck us aside and went back into the sea , taking Undry with them . ’ |
| 12 | Okay , we 'll come back and pick up with you again , if we may , in a few moments time , but I wanted to change tack once more and go back to the telephones , and waiting to talk to us now is Alan Spong , he 's a director of Lunn Poly , one of the country 's leading travel agents . |
| 13 | He scrambled upright and went back into the empty flat . |
| 14 | There again , that 's the best of both worlds ; I have a chance to go out and play stadiums and arenas and then I get to go home and go back to the way I was , although with a lot more experience under my belt . |
| 15 | The fox turned at once and went back into the covert , about ten yards from the point where he broke . |
| 16 | For a gentle corrective one could do worse than go back to H.L. Mencken who opined that Alexander Graham Bell — the progenitor of the institution in which Penzias holds sway — and Thomas Alva Edison had done more than any of their contemporaries to add to the sum of life 's damned nuisances . |
| 17 | Both could do worse than go back to Tony Crosland and update his ideas to allow for the issues of gender , race , environment , low growth and others of which he was ignorant . |
| 18 | They were half-way to the car when she found she 'd left something behind and went back in a flurry of carrier bags and magazines . |
| 19 | I have been using the playhouse for about ten years now and going back to the point that someone made earlier about sex well about erm racism sexism is does n't that count as censorship . |
| 20 | ‘ Are you going to stay here or go back to the Villa Fiesole ? ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Deep inside she knew she should leave here and go back to England as quickly as possible before all her defences collapsed . |
| 23 | erm So that there are a large number of tropical foresters now who 've been here and gone back to their own country , and one of the things which I point out to them these days is the need for public relations in their own countries , and getting information across to governments and being able to talk to economists and finance people in their own countries . |
| 24 | So he sat down again and listened to the story of the Damianis , of their life in Jaffa and of how they fled in 1948 , how David Damiani stood on the stern of the ship off Jaffa port and wished he could have turned round then and gone back to his home . |
| 25 | He laughed abruptly and went back to this wine cup . |
| 26 | What if the dealer had a cash-in-hand offer from someone else and went back on his word ? |
| 27 | ‘ For God 's sake , what 's the bastard playing at ? ’ he said softly and went back to his office . |
| 28 | Sophia now picked up Faustina again and went back into the house with her . |
| 29 | He got up again and went back to the oven . |
| 30 | Then it all joins up again and goes back in , goes along here , so everything that goes down there , the ten amps goes through this one again , and back into the battery . |