Example sentences of "go back [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He warned there was no going back because to do so would make John Major 's word worthless abroad . |
| 2 | The child 's cognisant acts have the character of perceptions : if an act is done it can not be undone ( ‘ reversed ’ in the jargon ) and so there is no going back and taking another perspective on the question or practical problem . |
| 3 | Erm , and we , we find although Amnesty does run er door to door collection which we are always encouraged to join in which we never have , which is I think always in June , in June now , it 's good time , it 's a good time of year for it , but that means going round putting envelopes in doors , going back and collecting them , the arguments on the doorstep about Amnesty , er going back again if people are not in and we , we as a , relatively small group covering a very big area we , we have n't felt able to do that , and we actually find that by standing in the street with each person having a tin for one or two hours , we can do quite well that way and er , that 's , that 's . |
| 4 | Oh going back and get these sweaty socks off . |
| 5 | Exactly , that 's what I 'm doing , I 'm doing it that way , I 'm doing the basics , which will get the marks and I 'm doing , going back and adding extra little sods when I 've finished it oh God |
| 6 | That 's how it happens , all those improvisational sections coming out — me forgetting what I played on albums and not going back and re-learning it . ’ |
| 7 | No , but I really feel like going back and putting my feet up and chatting to you a bit more , cos we have n't chatted enough have we ? |
| 8 | And he says well , I can wait till tomorrow , better than going back and coming again . |
| 9 | Lawrence feels like going back and saying to her ‘ It 's all right , do n't take any notice of that mental lunatic ’ ( p. 304 ) , thereby offering a new inflection of the erotic triangle : intervening between Swift and Celia , Lawrence displaces his own anal neurosis on to Swift while offering his healthy ideal self to Celia — or rather he seeks to become his ideal self in her eyes . |
| 10 | And they were in this grotty council house now and they go back and they said and you saw them going back and saying look at the state of the garden . |
| 11 | you 're you 're going back and saying |
| 12 | She thought of going back and finding it all different , the old contentment shattered … and she knew she could n't bear that . |
| 13 | I was terrified of knocking on the door of the house to ask permission but I was even more terrified of going back and making a fool of myself because of my ignorance on court so I spent the rest of the afternoon skulking behind the sweet peas . ’ |
| 14 | Erm so your confidence goes , your speed at working through it goes , you might find you 're going back and doing it again when it was right then first time . |
| 15 | So if you see Ron , tell him if he goes back and keeps shut-up , he 'll only have the AWOL to answer for . |
| 16 | Some time during the afternoon they decided not to go back but to stay overnight . |
| 17 | It 's at the top of Geal-Charn that you must make the decision to go back or carry on to Carn Dearg . |
| 18 | It would be difficult to go back and admit this . |
| 19 | It is no good claiming self-defence if , having beaten your attacker to the ground , you then decide to go back and stamp all over his or her helpless body . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd better move if I 'm going to go back and change . ’ |
| 21 | But you 've also got that that that you notice well down the erm the expenditure on a project , that you 're gon na have to have to go back and change something that should have been sorted out at the start . |
| 22 | what Alan intends to do is write to all line managers and ask them to go back and review their appraisal erm documents for every member of staff they 've appraised . |
| 23 | I was prepared to go back and copy . |
| 24 | ‘ He has to go back and sort out the transfer situation , which is very messy . ’ |
| 25 | You what , do n't be so stupid we 've got to go back and tell him , we ca n't do things like that . |
| 26 | In 1964 he decided he wanted to go back and finish school , so he took a break . |
| 27 | Erm I just want to go back and talk about a few things we just touched on earlier . |
| 28 | Well , I 'd like to go back and talk to you about the exclusion clauses though , and the purchasing power of the people buying these things . |
| 29 | Erm , I probably would have done because I made lots of mistakes and I could n't be bothered to go back and check them ! |
| 30 | I want to go back and visit her . |