Example sentences of "go back [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , she would stare at them as they were talking and they would grow smaller and smaller , like a genie going back into a lamp . |
| 2 | I was not going back into a situation where I only had myself to talk to . |
| 3 | Next time , we 're going back with a record player and a Thin Lizzy record , we 're going to plug it in and when he asks what the hell we 're doing , we 'll say , ‘ Just listening to that Les Paul on the wall there ! ' ’ |
| 4 | You 're not going back for a month ? |
| 5 | It 's exciting ; going back together and going back to a country which hopefully is changing . |
| 6 | Dr Jan Hulsker had told him that after Vincent 's departure from The Hague , Sien had given custody of the baby Willem to her brother , Pieter Hoornik , before going back to a life of casual prostitution and drink . |
| 7 | We 're going back to a kind of rating system with the different assessment on valuations |
| 8 | These are abused young children going back to a parent and troubled adolescents returning home from residential care . |
| 9 | and that is also why , going back to a point earlier on , why I think erm counselling and alternative medicine , and so on , is marginalized it would be such a rock to the social order to actually acknowledge that people are in distress because it 's the social order that 's causing that distress . |
| 10 | I normally make a note of the palette number and list the yarn names , along with the manufacturers ' colour names or numbers for each of the eight colours , in a book and find this is a great help when going back to a palette later , or when looking for a palette containing certain yarn colours . |
| 11 | and she said that 's just not the way it 's done , so she she saying to him now , if you da if you wet yourself once more you 're going back in a nappy . |
| 12 | It was purchased on 4 August 1928 by a Mrs Green of Sydney , Australia , going back from a visit to Bishop 's Castle . |
| 13 | This Trumping of the souvenir market goes back to a boyhood in Portsmouth and a hobby of collecting shells and making creatures out of them . |
| 14 | In order to challenge this complex of interlocking polarities , Amalgamemnon goes back to a time when the two domains , though distinct , were not yet differentiated by separate modes of narrative , back to Herodotus , the first prose artist and ‘ the father of fibstory ’ ( 22,113 ) . |
| 15 | There were three women and they died at the same time so God goes cos you do n't all three of you do n't so , erm , the first one goes : I wan na go back to Earth thousand times are better so she goes back as a President , right ? |
| 16 | and er , he said if he 's not better , any better when he goes back in a fortnight he 's gon na send him to a chest specialist , but you 've been a lot better have n't you ? |
| 17 | This ability of homoeopathy to go back into a patient 's medical history gives it the edge over orthodox drugs which only mask the problem . |
| 18 | ‘ I want to go back to a size 12 again . |
| 19 | They took turns to go back to a hotel to sleep , and came back to take their places on watch and yell ‘ Pamella ! |
| 20 | There was an early nineteenth-century firescreen to go back to a house in Trinity Street . |
| 21 | I 'm I 'm actually I have to go back to a house . |
| 22 | Unless — do you have to go back to a hospital with it , or anything ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Ideally we would like to go back to a site a few months after installation , for a meeting with senior management to show them how they can take advantage of the system , ’ Chudley says . |
| 24 | I want to go back to a comment made by the hon. Member for Truro ( Mr. Taylor ) , which led the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) to go into a spate of incontinent muttering . |
| 25 | I knew I would never have the courage to go and ask for my job back after the baby was born , even if circumstances allowed it ; it would soon be filled again , and it 's always horrible to go back to a place where you 've been happy in your own little niche and find somebody else in it . |
| 26 | If we are dealing with a regression to what may be a former lifetime , then , having asked the patient to go back to a period with which his subconscious mind feels comfortable , I like to help him to create the picture of his former personality little by little . |
| 27 | Do the Bank want to go back to a time when a male official could not get married until he was earning £150 per annum and by the time he was earning that sum he was past having an interest in marriage . |
| 28 | I said if you had n't I 'd get you to go back for a chat with him . ’ |
| 29 | The House of Lords allowed the defendant 's appeal with the result that the case had to go back for a retrial eleven years after the plaintiff had suffered damage . |
| 30 | I 've got Lyn who 's due to go back for a month erm end of May for most of er June , upstairs |