Example sentences of "he went back to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Well when he went back to work er they did n't let him start .
2 After safety measures were enforced at his firm he went back to work and never experienced symptoms again .
3 He went back to Prince 's Lodge and managed to collect the keys of the Missile without being seen .
4 He went back to school a misfit , troublesome , confused , way behind in his studies , far too independent for his own good and on trial .
5 He did study law and acquired all the necessary qualifications but he became increasingly depressed — a condition which was not conquered until , at the age of 28 , he went back to university to study the science subjects he so loved .
6 Then he went back to contemplation of one of his local scenes , his broad shoulders hunched in the vivid purple shirt , his head pressed forward .
7 He went back to bed and wept until they came for him .
8 So he went back to bed and slid in beside the now silent , still figure of Emily , and nursed his throbbing right wrist with his left hand and imagined himself as one of those recumbent stone knights you sometimes see in churches , stretched out with arms crossed at the breast , cold and grey and dead , feeling no pain .
9 He went back to bed and resumed his nightmare .
10 and er i it was a an absolute disaster er I , I mean he , he more or less er he went back to bed in the morning .
11 When he went back to college she began to remember again .
12 Called ‘ My Boy ’ , it depicted a mother bidding farewell to a pampered looking son as he went back to prep .
13 He went back to prison at night .
14 Right , I 've just got a , two or three minutes , I 've just wan na get something quickly done before we , we close and I 'm not gon na look up all the references , because your get them for next week any way in , in the house group , but , now , now in a sense it 's difficult to understand to take all this in after all his God and were people , how do we understand Jesus , it 's , it 's difficult , however knowing something about them does help us to understand something important , it helps us to understand what happened when Jesus ascended , when he went back to heaven , you see when Jesus arose from the earth the , the disciples who watch him it says there in Acts chapter one , they saw him go up in to the heaven , up into you know in a cloud , have you ever thought what that really means what on earth was it , they saw him go up in a cloud , can you image a sort of great clouds coming and dropping down over the mountain top there and was suddenly whisking Jesus up and then watching Jesus going up in this cloud into the sky , I do n't really think it was quite like that , have you ever wonder why it was that Jesus went up in a cloud , you see what was he doing , he was n't beginning a journey to some far off place in the universe , some distant corner where God the father was , he was n't doing that at all , what do you think a cloud can you , give any suggestions of what a cloud might represent because very often a lot of some of the language in the bible is picture language and it , it , it speaks as something else , what do , what do you think a cloud , does any body have suggestions of what a cloud might speak to us about , or speak to us of , sorry , power yeah , any thing else
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