Example sentences of "went back [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does this mean that in the B. & Q. judgment the court abandoned the criterion of proportionality and thus went back on its earlier case law ? |
| 2 | She went back to her frantic exploration of the machine 's interior . |
| 3 | In this case she went back to her third birthday . |
| 4 | She went back to her Daily Mirror . |
| 5 | She went back to her stacked canvases . |
| 6 | She went back to her own office and sat down at her desk again . |
| 7 | Isabel Lavender went back to her own room . |
| 8 | Putting her knead cake down in the kitchen , she went back to her own home through the streets where already black crepe banners were being hung from every window . |
| 9 | In the morning Sam rose first and went back to her own room to dress . |
| 10 | Without waiting for The Fat Controller 's reaction to all this , she turned and went back to her own table , where she was greeted with little ‘ Well done 's and furtive shoulder pats from her fellow diners . |
| 11 | She closed the door softly behind her and went back to her own room next door . |
| 12 | But there was no answer when she knocked on Louise 's door , nor when she tried another new friend 's door at the far end of the passage , and this was so discouraging that she went back to her own room and cried till her blue eyes wre red-rimmed and swollen . |
| 13 | She had a poise about her that spoke of some sort of inner peace and Jenna 's mind went back to her own mother — the beauty , the restless energy , the quick , sharp voice . |
| 14 | Sara went back to her own part of the house . |
| 15 | Leith requested , and went back to her own office , where for the next twenty minutes she tried to pick up the threads of her job . |
| 16 | Certainly — she hoped — not Luke himself , and while her acquaintance with Florian Jones went back to their high-school days in South Africa , she knew he was impervious to anything that did not affect him directly . |
| 17 | Then they went back to their separate homes , to their men , trying to balance the love and the hate in their hearts . |
| 18 | Feeling vaguely foolish , the pair went back to their own room . |
| 19 | Violet and Eddie then went back to their respective boarding schools , paid for by Granny Macleod , which only stepped up Perdita 's paranoia and jealousy . |
| 20 | His mind went back to their brief conversation of the night before : ‘ I want to see you , ’ she had said , ‘ now . ’ |
| 21 | The PVO rebels went back to their old game of harassing the Karens who had been restless ever since their claims to a separate state on ambitious lines had failed . |
| 22 | Unfortunately they went back to their bad old ways during the autumn in the championship , but they have now regained that hungry look which can only spell trouble for their rivals . |
| 23 | Then his muttering went back to its original round : ‘ It 's the unification of unification … ’ |
| 24 | After trudging disconsolately round a few bars , I went back to our cheap hostel , where to my relief I found Dana snoring in the double bed we were to share . |
| 25 | This was confirmed the following morning , and that evening , not devoid of relief , we went back to our own beds . |
| 26 | So we snatched mouthfuls of cold food and went back to our own chamber to wait until midnight . |
| 27 | Of course and then she dies and erm I went back to me own mother you see . |
| 28 | Later that day we went back to my first house . |
| 29 | ‘ But I went back to my first dancing teacher who taught me when I was 12 and it was like five hours of physiotherapy every day . |
| 30 | In September 1938 , when I was sixteen , I went back to my native country for a holiday ; partly because 1 wanted to see my friends in štanjel , and partly so that I could visit my uncles , aunts and cousins on my mother 's side of the family in Mavhinje . |