Example sentences of "go back on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're going back on the defensive , Mark . |
| 2 | Mum , I do n't want that one then she goes back on the three , goes , yeah ? |
| 3 | trying to turn the tables again so that he would stop feeling uncomfortable and Starke would go back on the defensive . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , he went back on the twenty-third of April 1950 . |
| 5 | He went back on the last-minute promise to them to delay the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 6 | Oxford Regional Health Authority explained why it went back on the original decision saying , ’ We understood that the law said quite clearly the health authority could not provide treatment in private homes . |
| 7 | Right , and the background to that of course is , for those of you who may not know , Bullett was I suppose a more junior person in the State Department , when he went to Europe with Woodrow Wilson in nineteen eighteen , and nineteen whenever it was for a peace conference , and Bullett was the only one of the American delegation who resigned and confronted Wilson and said , look , you 've gone back on the fourteen points , you 're not doing what you said you would do . |