Example sentences of "[coord] went back to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She joined the old South of Scotland Electricity Board in 1976 as a legal assistant — the first female solicitor it had employed — but by 1980 wanted to do something different and went back to university with the company 's blessing ( and a scholarship ) to get an MBA . |
| 2 | I do n't think he realised learning the facts of life was precisely what most of us would do if we stopped demonstrating and went back to bed . |
| 3 | Looked out of the window at rain , no horizon and a cloud-base under 500 ‘ ft ‘ and went back to bed for another hour . |
| 4 | I took off my dressing-gown and went back to bed . |
| 5 | He closed the casement and went back to bed and to sleep . |
| 6 | Earlier this year , in May , they voted for change , but when Noriega disavowed the election result the mass of the people shrugged their shoulders and went back to work . |
| 7 | Dr Sasaki got up and went back to work . |
| 8 | In October the Nottinghamshire miners formed a breakaway union and went back to work . |
| 9 | She found a childminder and went back to work . |
| 10 | Tribe looked up , waved , and went back to work . |
| 11 | ‘ Why do n't you fuck off you cunt , ’ he told him — and went back to work . |
| 12 | Then she shrugged and went back to work . |
| 13 | But for the last two weeks of the holidays I was continually feeling ‘ sick ’ and ‘ shaky ’ , and went back to school , weighing seven stone one pound . |
| 14 | Brown married shortly after the flight and went back to engineering . |