Example sentences of "went back to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To make sure of the facts I went back to a 1985 Wireless World ( May & June ) series to read up and it seems you are completely correct . |
| 2 | Now if the Labour group had moved a widening of erm the sort of provision in our elderly persons homes , I could have understood that , because we did n't have real figures , we could not get hold of real figures , every time I went back to a local party meeting , to the Labour group , to any other member they said , do you realise this home has this number of vacancies and your report says that number . |
| 3 | Then she changed her mind , and went back to the brimming bath . |
| 4 | I ordered a double portion of chicken and a Seven-Up and went to a table while they went back to the late movie on Channel 4 on a portable television . |
| 5 | Somehow , I knew what existed here went back to the ancient history of my people . |
| 6 | He went back to the small house in which Grégoire lived , and attempted to interview his mother . |
| 7 | ‘ My father called me Breeze , ’ she added , as he seemed interested ; and as she said that her mind went back to the hot summer 's day when her father had given her the nickname which had been adopted by everyone . |
| 8 | Having successfully worked himself out of the job of CBN 's Beirut correspondent , Coleman went back to the Middle East in December 1985 , as Condor Television Ltd , a one-man production company with an ‘ office ’ in the Kastantiana hotel , Larnaca , Cyprus . |
| 9 | The chapel went back to the thirteenth century ; in the Restoration of Charles II Archbishop Frewen gave the house a façade to the river and built a magnificent dining room ; and during the eighteenth century Archbishop Drummond added a Gothic gatehouse and made the surround a charming bit of eighteenth-century Gothic . |
| 10 | So , that 's why we went back to the reformed electoral college . |
| 11 | I travelled up from Kings Cross with Sidney , Daryl Bligh of the Graphic , K. B. D. Clarke of the Times , ‘ Tibby ’ Tisdale of the News , Stanford Roberts , of course , and I think we had Norton Malley with us , who would at that time I suppose have been on the Morning Post , though he later went back to the Irish Times . |
| 12 | He went back to the shaving mirror to comb his hair and when he had finished he pushed a folded handkerchief into his sleeve with quiet satisfaction . |
| 13 | His mind went back to the familiar and unanswerable question : who killed Newley ? |
| 14 | She picked it up , went back to the two girls and dumped it unceremoniously over Peggy 's head . |
| 15 | so erm , and that went on for , I suppose till the end of the war when er , when we had a reduction in hours again , we went back to the normal nine till half past five . |
| 16 | Politicians were masters of the quick recovery , Trent thought as he went back to the front room . |
| 17 | But I often went back to the other , greener side of the island . |
| 18 | They went back to the other room eventually . |
| 19 | When she had undressed and put it on without catching her own eye in the mirror she went back to the other room and dumped the handbag on top of the dressing-table . |
| 20 | Strolling , they pondered public education versus private schooling ; Johnson wondered why boys from England had been sent as far as Aberdeen to be educated , with ‘ so many good schools in England ’ , and they went back to the New Inn , to be joined there by Sir Alexander Gordon , an old friend of Johnson 's , who had sent a card in advance , and through Boswell we join their conversation as it drifts back to the stocking-making . |
| 21 | He put the letter in his Out tray and moved on to another piece of paper , and then he stopped and went back to the first letter . |
| 22 | After I started with Veronica , Mrs D went back to the First Spiritualists . ’ |
| 23 | I filled the plastic detergent-bottle and primed the lighter , left it lying on the top of the bank most of the rabbit holes were in , then went back to the first of the blocked-up holes and lit the fuse with my disposable cigarette-lighter . |
| 24 | As the line that seemingly connects the two circle centres needed close scrutiny , I went back to the 1:25,000 scale maps or the area and laid a straight edge along the apparent intersection . |
| 25 | The Doctor who came to see the poor Doc ( a psychoanalyst and neurological specialist ) said that every neurotic case went back to the childish fear of the father . |
| 26 | I finished cleaning my mouth and hands and went back to the dead man 's chamber . |
| 27 | Their life was already hard enough , so I went back to the wild fruit in the woods . |
| 28 | In a kind of rush I went back to the main menu . |
| 29 | The Lady Prioress , anxious about the whereabouts of the Lady Eleanor , left the refectory and went back to the darkened convent building . |
| 30 | She went back to the overgrown ride where she had left Lord Wyatt . |