Example sentences of "went back to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaving David with Mr Catlett , Peggy went back to the table and sat down . |
| 2 | By early evening , I was just too bored to stick the place any longer so I went back to the hotel . |
| 3 | I went back to the porch and hid my night bag behind a headstone and then left for another long walk to Harwich . |
| 4 | The following morning at nine o'clock I went back to the coffee shop , just to show that I was still around . |
| 5 | After the war Attlee went back to the more responsible system . |
| 6 | The chapel went back to the thirteenth century ; in the Restoration of Charles II Archbishop Frewen gave the house a façade to the river and built a magnificent dining room ; and during the eighteenth century Archbishop Drummond added a Gothic gatehouse and made the surround a charming bit of eighteenth-century Gothic . |
| 7 | She went back to the corner and across to the nearby pub , where she sat sipping beer , munching a cheese sandwich , and waiting . |
| 8 | Phoebe went back to the kitchen , heated up some tinned soup and made tuna fish sandwiches . |
| 9 | He went back to the shaving mirror to comb his hair and when he had finished he pushed a folded handkerchief into his sleeve with quiet satisfaction . |
| 10 | He went back to the girl , sat down on the opposite side of the desk and gave a brisk nod . |
| 11 | The logical crisis went back to the time when he first started to read philosophy as an undergraduate and related to his reading of the English Idealist philosophers , as well as to his return ( for the purposes of passing his exams , and later as a tutor ) to the English empiricists of the eighteenth century . |
| 12 | The Doctor who came to see the poor Doc ( a psychoanalyst and neurological specialist ) said that every neurotic case went back to the childish fear of the father . |
| 13 | Sir John Riddell went back to the City , and was replaced by Major General Sir Christopher Airy , recently retired from commanding the Household Division , admirable qualifications for the job . |
| 14 | He drew off some fluid and relieved the pressure , then went back to the office , where he shook his head gloomily as he pored over the report that had come back with her from Seapark . |
| 15 | TRANMERE went back to the top of the Third Division on goal difference last night as they extended their unbeaten home League run to 26 games with a 2-1 win over Walsall . |
| 16 | Steam issuing out of her ears like a kettle , she went back to the kitchen and spun sugar with some gusto . |
| 17 | I remember I went back to the ambulance feeling quite horrified . |
| 18 | As the ages passed , a few land mammals , the distant ancestors of today 's whales and dolphins went back to the sea , and gradually changed shape as they adapted to an underwater environment . |
| 19 | If a socage tenant died without heirs and intestate , his land escheated , i.e. went back to the lord of whom it was held , who in practically all cases had come to be the King . |
| 20 | She was most solicitous ( scheming bitch ! ) so he told her that his wife was cured and they went back to the same old routine . |
| 21 | When he reached the last machine he went back to the beginning and played them all again . |
| 22 | Bought a pot of Grindlewood goosegog jam at the gift shop and went back to the car . |
| 23 | Iranians had more respect for people with graying locks ; North , already tipped off by Ghorbanifar , had put more white in his ; so Hakim and Nir went back to the shop and had Nir 's hair sprayed , Hakim all the while keeping his identity firmly under his wig . |
| 24 | He went back to the book . |
| 25 | Yesterday he went back to the city to see if the voters to whom he spoke had changed their minds |
| 26 | Trent 's thoughts went back to the photograph he had found on Don Roberto 's piano . |
| 27 | He saw Mariana shiver as he went back to the table and slipped the Walther into his belt . |
| 28 | Politicians were masters of the quick recovery , Trent thought as he went back to the front room . |
| 29 | They stared at the dead sheep for a few seconds longer , then went back to the van . |
| 30 | They strolled through Paris together , after her husband went back to the front . |