Example sentences of "[noun sg] went back [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mind went back to one particular Saturday evening . |
| 2 | Frank 's mind went back to that torrid summer when they had melted into intimacy . |
| 3 | As she stared unseeingly ahead , her mind went back to that first meeting with Robert , and a pang of regret shot through her . |
| 4 | As the throng of workers laughed and joked , tucking into the vast amount of food laid out before them , Annie 's mind went back to other Mell Suppers and not for the first time , she reflected on how her family had dwindled . |
| 5 | Figures such as Margaret Thatcher and Edward Heath , on the other hand , have remained remarkably quiet , although the idea of the state visit and some signal honour went back to 1970 — 4 . |
| 6 | oh god I 've had enough of this , so I went round , knocked on the front door , win curtain went back like that , she went |
| 7 | Later Nutmeg went back to all his friends ( looking himself again ) + they all told him about a strange white cat who called himself Nutmeg . |
| 8 | If we ask whether there were ancient documents which showed that the primacy went back to authoritative sources , the answer ( as I shall argue later ) is that there were documents which gave general support to the claim , sufficient to authenticate the living tradition of the community , but insufficient for use in a court of law . |
| 9 | These developments also reveal a basic change in the conception of the travelling agent whose existence went back in some form to the beginning of organised antislavery in the 1780s . |
| 10 | If a government went back on this assurance there would be no IAEA safeguards which could do anything about the position . |
| 11 | Lord Carrington , a consensual aristocrat of the old school whose experience of government went back to 1951 , had to be Foreign Secretary . |
| 12 | The report went back to legal counsel with suggested amendments . |
| 13 | The Caldaire debt went back to 1989 , he added . |
| 14 | It was no wonder that Dad went back over that day so often , especially in the light of present circumstances . |
| 15 | As abbot of St Denis , Suger was in charge of one of France 's oldest and most revered houses , whose connection with the ruling dynasty went back to Merovingian times . |
| 16 | Half of the bribes taken in that vast government office went back by devious and secret means to the politicians . |