Example sentences of "the [noun pl] go back " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will only be the fourth year before the accounts go back to independent examination . |
| 2 | The researchers went back to first principles by making a detailed mechanical analysis of Diatryma 's head . |
| 3 | When do the kids , the kids go back to school the first week so if you go |
| 4 | Well we know , from talking to some of the school teachers involved , they go back and the kids go back and talk to the other kids in the form . |
| 5 | If all the Scots went back to Scotland — it would serve them right . ’ |
| 6 | But when the inspectors went back earlier this year , they counted five hundred and fifty eight animals still on his farm . |
| 7 | In early April , in fine spring weather , the miners went back to work , ‘ their heads held high ’ , with brass bands blaring and ancient banners on display . |
| 8 | The miners went back to work completely crushed — worse off than before . |
| 9 | And , and so did the feet go back . |
| 10 | Towards nightfall most of the refugees went back into Myitkyina for the night , but the remaining convalescents and I were too tired to do this , so we stayed on the airfield . |
| 11 | Either the Serbs will let the refugees go back to their original homes , which is hard to imagine , or the ‘ protecting ’ soldiers will sooner or later have to escort them out , to look for new homes somewhere else . |
| 12 | Where are the tapes going back to ? |
| 13 | Would you believe it — a false start and the man with the red flag is there to make sure all the eggs go back to the line . |
| 14 | When the clocks go back in late October it will be dark by five o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 15 | AS THE clocks go back , astronomers are set to announce that the length of the day has been increasing over the centuries . |
| 16 | ‘ They said we would get an extra hour in October when the clocks go back but I 'll believe that when I see it . ’ |
| 17 | Club managers are now hoping they will be entitled to an extra hour 's opening when the clocks go back in October . |
| 18 | MANY night-clubbers must have wondered if , when the clocks went back from 2am to 1am on a Sunday morning , they were entitled to an extra hour of fun . |
| 19 | The literature on the professions goes back a long way , but seems to have reached a peak in the 1960s and 1970s ( see , for example , Etzioni 1969 ; Jackson 1970 ) , perhaps because the professions were at an apogee of esteem at that point , before the attacks of Illich ( 1977 ) and others who , like Shaw many years before , accused them of establishing a ‘ radical monopoly ’ in the name of meeting people 's ‘ needs ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ But the difference now is that the profits go back into the game and the WRU are to be congratulated on their decisions to tap in to the funds that are available . ’ |
| 21 | An exhibitor 's put an exhibit up and everyone thinks they can beat it but when they 've gone and left their the exhibitors gone back and put a new lot up … things like that happen . |
| 22 | I got the yarn free and the needles went back to where I wanted them , returned the carriage and went across . |
| 23 | His son Alf , the skinhead , had said that he would personally strangle any Muslim he found messing with his wife , adding that if Tehran was such a great place why did n't the bastards go back there ? |
| 24 | Before the patients go back to the ward , they will pat their faces back into place and often ask for reassurance that no-one will be told . |
| 25 | Make sure the brushes go back the right way up — match them with the side you have not yet removed . |
| 26 | Brenninkmeyer , together with funding from the federal government and the Land , are paying for the work to be done before the treasures go back on display in Quedlinburg next summer . |
| 27 | When the opera finished , the girls went back to their dressing-room . |
| 28 | Much of the gold dug by the slaves went back to Portugal . |
| 29 | The men went back and searched the trains but the man had disappeared ; all the men agreed the man had been there , they had all seen him , they were all completely baffled . |
| 30 | There was the question of cancelling the whole Festival , but fortunately that did not prove to be necessary , and by the end of the week the strike collapsed — and , tragically , the men went back to work having gained nothing . |