Example sentences of "go back the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I start going back the way I came . |
| 2 | The only way he was able to free himself was to grab the branch and work against the current , going back the way he came in . |
| 3 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 4 | Nothing for it but to go back the way you came , to Neu St Johann , thence down the Toggenburg valley through the resorts of Nesslau and Ebnat-Kappel to Wattwil . |
| 5 | But can you see the people who came to the stepping stones and could n't go across and had to go back the way they 'd already come would n't go back with a very their ego would n't have b been boosted very high . |
| 6 | She had to go back the way she had come . |
| 7 | She did n't point out that they had to go back the way they had come , and when he reached into the back and handed her a water container she drank gladly . |
| 8 | ‘ Until this evening , ’ he said huskily , and turned to go back the way they had come . |
| 9 | I want to go back the year , nineteen hundred , and let's hear the causes of death , because when many infectives caused by viruses and the bacteria , the life expectancy for a male was fifty , and for a women was fifty four . |
| 10 | ‘ Let's go back the way we came , ’ Coconut said to Gareth . |
| 11 | No , I was for today and I 've got ta go back the week after I 'm due . |
| 12 | He went back the way he had come , hearing the music ahead of him , and recognized the tune of a Geordie air . |
| 13 | For nearly half a mile he went back the way he had come , only to become more lost and confused than before . |
| 14 | With a quick smile , and not really having any choice , Ellie climbed back into her car , turned on the muddy track , and went back the way she 'd come . |
| 15 | If he went back the day would be done . |
| 16 | Soon after Joe went back the family were notified that Terry was a prisoner of war , and given the address of the Stalag in which he was held . |
| 17 | She paused a moment , uncertain whether to follow the other two or go back the way they had come . |