Example sentences of "went back to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we ask whether there were ancient documents which showed that the primacy went back to authoritative sources , the answer ( as I shall argue later ) is that there were documents which gave general support to the claim , sufficient to authenticate the living tradition of the community , but insufficient for use in a court of law . |
| 2 | The Caldaire debt went back to 1989 , he added . |
| 3 | Figures such as Margaret Thatcher and Edward Heath , on the other hand , have remained remarkably quiet , although the idea of the state visit and some signal honour went back to 1970 — 4 . |
| 4 | If we went back to nineteen seventy eight , we 'd pick up all the Selby drawings would n't we ? |
| 5 | The report went back to legal counsel with suggested amendments . |
| 6 | The researchers went back to first principles by making a detailed mechanical analysis of Diatryma 's head . |
| 7 | My thoughts went back to 1956 and Suez when the shambles of lengthy invasion and precipitate withdrawal had destroyed Anthony Eden 's whole political career . |
| 8 | The day over , they went back to dark and dismal stables at the rear of the yard . |
| 9 | My mind went back to one particular Saturday evening . |
| 10 | Later Nutmeg went back to all his friends ( looking himself again ) + they all told him about a strange white cat who called himself Nutmeg . |
| 11 | Frank 's mind went back to that torrid summer when they had melted into intimacy . |
| 12 | He was second on his debut at Leicester but went back to that track to win by 20 lengths . |
| 13 | I went back to that blasted ship . |
| 14 | I went back to that idiot , the jeweller who turned it down . |
| 15 | As she stared unseeingly ahead , her mind went back to that first meeting with Robert , and a pang of regret shot through her . |
| 16 | That 's right yeah everything went back to that initial part . |
| 17 | Because they went back to very ancient things they went back to ancient Greek or Egyptian things . |
| 18 | The reason that my mother continued to patronise Woodfords , whilst surrounded by Salisbury bakers , went back to 1857 , when the founder of the firm canvassed door to door in Salisbury and happened to call on my great-grandmother in Rollestone Street . |
| 19 | As the throng of workers laughed and joked , tucking into the vast amount of food laid out before them , Annie 's mind went back to other Mell Suppers and not for the first time , she reflected on how her family had dwindled . |
| 20 | Er , she explained to me a case she had analyzed where she , Anna Freud , was quite certain that some of the symptoms of the woman she was analyzing went back to infantile masturbation . |
| 21 | Mollified , if not entirely convinced , Vincent went back to Mauve and tried hard to knuckle down . |
| 22 | While they all took their places along the tables , Tamar 's thoughts went back to similar evenings at Aumery Park Farm . |
| 23 | We got just the opposite at the 11th , where we dropped a shot and went back to 10 under . |
| 24 | ‘ After the collisions the plates were able to adjust each time — fairly quickly it seems — and things went back to normal until something else came crashing in . ’ |
| 25 | Everything went back to normal . |
| 26 | Plataia , however , the main state south of the River Asopos , always looked towards Athens and her democracy : the connection actually went back to 519 BC when Kleomenes of Sparta told Plataia to attach herself to Athens ( p. 20 , and cp. p. 19 on Thespiai and attikismos ) . |
| 27 | Bismarck wanted Germany to maintain the conservative alliance with Vienna and St Petersburg whose roots went back to 1815 . |
| 28 | The Romans found an existing road pattern which went back to Neolithic times and which followed the natural corridors of movement suggested by the topography . |
| 29 | He laughed abruptly and went back to this wine cup . |
| 30 | After lunch Morton went back to Old Jewry , to find Bragg sitting morosely at his desk . |