Example sentences of "they went back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was most solicitous ( scheming bitch ! ) so he told her that his wife was cured and they went back to the same old routine . |
| 2 | The water lapped about their feet , and they went back to the posts . |
| 3 | Their suspicions aroused , they went back to the files and studied the signatures ; there appeared to be discrepancies . |
| 4 | The next morning , realizing and regretting what they 'd done , they went back to the pub and were relieved to discover that the publican had n't cashed their cheque . |
| 5 | They went back to the drawing room and settled down into the sofa to talk horses . |
| 6 | At the end of that street , they went back to the bus-stop and to Kilburn where they had worked before . |
| 7 | Then they went back to the ship . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They went back to the other room eventually . |
| 10 | They went back to the house . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They went back to the Franz Joseph together — she liked everyone to see them walking off together when the performance was over . |
| 13 | There were waters on the earth , but when the rain stopped , the waters went from off the earth , they went back to the seas , did n't they . |
| 14 | They went back to the Forum . |
| 15 | They took a boat trip to see the seals , and in the evening they went back to the camp and lit a picnic-type disposable barbecue and ate burgers and sausages and fresh crunchy salad they had bought in Blakeney . |
| 16 | But they went back to the same orphanages which were grim.There was a determination to help them . |
| 17 | Well , I think , I do n't know if they went back to the pits and sort of left , but he did n't want to stay there and and got this job as a gamekeeper . |
| 18 | Yes , it was a depot for years , then they went back to the Tower of London , where they were formed , the Tower of London . |
| 19 | Well I dare say they went back to the hospital ! |
| 20 | They went back into the street . |
| 21 | They went back into the anteroom , but the door through to the theatre remained open . |
| 22 | The coroner came back , grinned at Athelstan , — belched loudly , and without further ado they went back into the street . |
| 23 | They bumped into him as they went back through the wire and held a whispered council of war . |
| 24 | As they went back through the copse Hazel recounted his talk with Fiver that morning . |
| 25 | They went back through the gatehouse , following the line of the river bank down some rough hewn stairs cut into the rock and beneath the bridge . |
| 26 | They went back through the dining-room and lobby to a small office where Mrs Foster , who was far more elderly than Charity would have imagined , invited them in . |
| 27 | When they had completed their task , they went back over the language of their exchange , noting the semantic field of the vocabulary , listing alternative lexis and structure which was synonymous in meaning with what they had used . |
| 28 | They went back down the garden and after that out to a couple of pubs where they drank a lot and Rufus had to drive back to Wyvis Hall with one eye closed on account of getting double vision . |
| 29 | Together they went back inside the villa . |