Example sentences of "[vb past] to go back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began to realise that life like this could not last for ever and so I asked to go back to the Cheshire Home for a holiday . |
| 2 | When the doctor had gone , Dot said , ‘ I got to go back in the hospital , ai n't I , Mrs H ? ’ |
| 3 | Next summer mum was told she would have to go back into hospital for a long time , and because I already knew the place , I agreed to go back to the Cheshire Home for this period . |
| 4 | On the following Monday she proposed to go back to the job she had taken to make it financially possible for Peter and her to buy their little home . |
| 5 | He was climbing on the barrier so he came to go back into the room to tell you what he was doing when Dale fell . ’ |
| 6 | He turned to go back along the gallery , then stopped and looked back at her . |
| 7 | Duncan turned to go back into the room . |
| 8 | The painful contractions started before I reached the ward and by the time the ward nurse had brought me 2 paracetamol , I needed to go back to the delivery suite ! |
| 9 | He decided to go back into the shed , but his muscles would not obey the orders of his mind . |
| 10 | I decided to go back to the block and rest for a little . |
| 11 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 12 | So I decided to go back to the ship again , and get some more things . |
| 13 | There was a telephone by the bed but he decided to go back to the hall , where another instrument stood on a table under the bannisters . |
| 14 | When the answer was a resounding ‘ Non ’ they decided to go back to the classroom . |
| 15 | He left me to become acquainted with the religious environment , and then handed me a paperback entitled Modern Buddhism in Burma , which he had edited in cooperation with Kenneth Saunders , warden of the YMCA hostel , and already a translator of the Dhamma-pada , a collection of short sayings thought to go back to the Buddha . |
| 16 | This appeared to go back on the health white paper , which had stated in a detailed working document : ‘ Legislation will be needed in order to require FPCs ( family practitioner committees ) and RHAs to keep to their drug budgets . ’ |
| 17 | Unfortunately , because he had had a source of comfort , the moment Ellie left to go back to the house his mournful howls increased in volume . |
| 18 | Then again for reasons of established cultural preference we had to go back to the Audit Commission and ask them to translate £6.358 million into ‘ real men ’ , for we had difficulty in trying to sell such an alien concept to the police mind . |
| 19 | I had to go back to the room , as if I needed to tell the place where I lived of my feeling . |
| 20 | Resuming at the short fourth hole , he promptly took a double bogey five , leaving a bunker shot in the sand , and then following it with a six at the fifth , where he hooked into some bushes and had to go back to the tee . |
| 21 | Had to go back to the school — had to sit amongst the probationers , and then after the school , he was posted right from one side of the city to the other . |
| 22 | Then she had to go back to the shop to get our fish and chips , so we bundled up the rest of the wood and , as it was dark , ventured out to see if Dad could find some customers for his new business . |
| 23 | This meant he had to go back to the county party and ask to be put back on their panel of candidates , a request which was turned down on Saturday . |
| 24 | The jackets had to go back to the sweatshop , making for an unnecessary and annoying delay . |
| 25 | Galerie de la Scala fared so well with a mixture of French , North European and Italian drawings , priced at FFr 20,000–350,000 , not always by famous names but always in exquisite taste , that they had to go back to the gallery for more . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's fine , ’ said Comfort , ‘ but he had to go back to the hospital after dinner . |
| 27 | So I thanked Mr. Lennis for his frankness , explained that I had to go back to the bank to deal with some work , and departed . |
| 28 | She had to go back to the theatre and see this thing through , for tonight , at least . |
| 29 | After lunch we did a bit more skiing and then we had to go back to the hotel . |
| 30 | It 's hardly worth drawing the cheques in certain cases and the capital programme , could n't see it actually when I looked for it first time , had to go back to the pink sheet and found the noughts , now we 're not as generous as we 'd like to be , but at least we try . |