Example sentences of "went back [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a government went back on this assurance there would be no IAEA safeguards which could do anything about the position . |
| 2 | We went back with these traps , put them in a half circle right round , bout nine of them , anyway . |
| 3 | Later Nutmeg went back to all his friends ( looking himself again ) + they all told him about a strange white cat who called himself Nutmeg . |
| 4 | Frank 's mind went back to that torrid summer when they had melted into intimacy . |
| 5 | He was second on his debut at Leicester but went back to that track to win by 20 lengths . |
| 6 | I went back to that blasted ship . |
| 7 | I went back to that idiot , the jeweller who turned it down . |
| 8 | As she stared unseeingly ahead , her mind went back to that first meeting with Robert , and a pang of regret shot through her . |
| 9 | That 's right yeah everything went back to that initial part . |
| 10 | He laughed abruptly and went back to this wine cup . |
| 11 | For the moment he left the subject there , and went back to another line of questioning . |
| 12 | We both winced and I went back to some more work on the sulphonamides , and he to dressing his patients . |
| 13 | Erm , I feel that she 'd read the brief but had n't studied it , because she , she went back to half way through , and er , looked at the objectives . |
| 14 | Frequently we stopped , turned and went back for another try to the left or right Our order did not change , with Odd-Knut out in front , then Tony and Nathan , and me bringing the line to an end . |
| 15 | Eventually he limped into the channel , recovered his breath , and went back for more . |
| 16 | Burton describes being ‘ between the two men I most feared ’ but nevertheless , and with all that was hanging on the part , he went back for more . |
| 17 | ‘ I can manage , ’ he said brusquely , threw them down , and went back for more . |
| 18 | It was no wonder that Dad went back over that day so often , especially in the light of present circumstances . |
| 19 | These developments also reveal a basic change in the conception of the travelling agent whose existence went back in some form to the beginning of organised antislavery in the 1780s . |
| 20 | I never went back after that . " |
| 21 | So that was the last And I do n't think if he went back after that I think it had kind of frightened him , least so my father used to tell the story . |
| 22 | oh god I 've had enough of this , so I went round , knocked on the front door , win curtain went back like that , she went |