Example sentences of "[noun sg] went back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mess tin went back into the cupboard . |
| 2 | The superintendent went back to the shop-floor and David looked at Rachel . |
| 3 | So Gloria and Dot went back down the area steps to their room , leaving the sunshine behind . |
| 4 | ‘ My father called me Breeze , ’ she added , as he seemed interested ; and as she said that her mind went back to the hot summer 's day when her father had given her the nickname which had been adopted by everyone . |
| 5 | Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ? |
| 6 | His mind went back to the familiar and unanswerable question : who killed Newley ? |
| 7 | My mind went back to the scene in that bedroom and the sliding doors to the paved patio . |
| 8 | Then the big bearded hijacker went back into the Captain 's cabin . |
| 9 | Isabel 's gaze went back to the crumbling keep . |
| 10 | They had their tea , then Boy went back into the living room to watch the breakfast television , which was sport , and then the phone rang . |
| 11 | The N.C. O. handed over the papers he had brought and after clicking his heels and saluting went back into the station without looking at me . |
| 12 | The logical crisis went back to the time when he first started to read philosophy as an undergraduate and related to his reading of the English Idealist philosophers , as well as to his return ( for the purposes of passing his exams , and later as a tutor ) to the English empiricists of the eighteenth century . |
| 13 | They strolled through Paris together , after her husband went back to the front . |
| 14 | Rain went back into the sitting room expecting to see Cobalt there . |
| 15 | As she did so , Greg 's eye went back to the letter on the dressing-table . |
| 16 | Salisbury listened , turned to the heralds in discussion , and then without further remark went back over the ditches . |
| 17 | And they , er when they did it , they knocked it all down , and that was really wrong and unnecessary , and though I think some of the flintstone was used , a lot of the flintstone went back in the builder 's yard , and it was a criminal thing at the time . |
| 18 | He swallowed quickly , then like a jackal went back to the carcase , gulping down the soft tissue , sucking air and blood through his nostrils , choking with the violence of his ingestion . |
| 19 | The budgerigar was in the kitchen and Philip stayed in there when the rest went back into the living-room . |
| 20 | Next day my father went back to the war and my mother back to the boarding school where she was on teaching practice as a French assistante , and spoke to the future wives of doctors and civil servants : Je suis , tu es , il est , nous sommes . |
| 21 | The mother and child went out happily , and the receptionist went back to the admin building . |
| 22 | The Doctor who came to see the poor Doc ( a psychoanalyst and neurological specialist ) said that every neurotic case went back to the childish fear of the father . |
| 23 | The Prince went back to the bible and put his hand on it . |
| 24 | In 1987 the UK Government went back on a pre-election promise to introduce Landscape Conservation Orders to protect these areas , so proper control from the EEC would be most welcome . |
| 25 | The link between ratepaying and voting went back to the foundation of the present local government system . |
| 26 | The problem of organization went back to the 1881 Scheme which Higginson If I understood that Scheme at all " — took to mean that the two schools ( Upper and Lower ) were to he united absolutely into one . |
| 27 | The chapel went back to the thirteenth century ; in the Restoration of Charles II Archbishop Frewen gave the house a façade to the river and built a magnificent dining room ; and during the eighteenth century Archbishop Drummond added a Gothic gatehouse and made the surround a charming bit of eighteenth-century Gothic . |
| 28 | It was a movement whose history went back into the Second World War , into the New York clubs that had bred Charlie Parker , Dizzy Gillespie , and the new jazz of be-bop . |
| 29 | Erm , er , the funding for that project which I understand has a total cost in excess of a hundred and sixty thousand pounds , has been met from a variety of sources , er , primarily local , but with a contribution from the County Council through the Leisure Services Committee , and also through the Resources Management sub-committee , and in a , indirect sense , in that the , the , the land transferred to the County Council from the District Council for a particular sum , when the project did n't go ahead , the land went back to the District , and had appreciated in value in the intervening time . |
| 30 | The hearse went back along the road for a bit , then rose into the sky and vanished into the clouds . |