Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] went back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Killer blah , ’ he said in a strange tone of voice that I took to be a warning so I went back under the chair . |
| 2 | By early evening , I was just too bored to stick the place any longer so I went back to the hotel . |
| 3 | Their life was already hard enough , so I went back to the wild fruit in the woods . |
| 4 | They were still uncomfortable , so I went back into the optician . |
| 5 | She was all but out of the door on her way to Oxford Street when , incredibly , she found herself shaking , so much so that she went back into the tiny bedroom and lay down . |
| 6 | She tried reading him Wordsworth and Tennyson and Browning but he would sigh and interrupt her when she did , so she went back to the lighter Kipling poems and he would lie and grin happily to himself and make her read his favourite passages over and over again . |
| 7 | That 's right , , it 's a , it 's a , so my mother and I said we 're going back to that hotel , you know , were very , very kind of luxury type , so we went back to the hotel and my brother and I went into the room where we had a television view on the sea , very beautiful . |
| 8 | There was nothing worth watching on television , so he went back into the kitchen . |
| 9 | Leaving Joy to help Miss Prescott with what are called the last offices ( Joy is also a trained nurse ) , Alan and I went back to the house and between us brought the coffin down from the loft . |
| 10 | I told the co-pilot to take over and I went back to the radio room and saw Charlie with blood all over his head and the front of his flight suit ’ . |
| 11 | It was now early July , and I went back to the Usk to film the silver-grey mink . |
| 12 | He hung up and I went back to the salon . |
| 13 | And the two rounds in the morning you did the bottom half of , for the first round and you went back to the shop and you got another bag full of papers and you did the top half of , if you know it . |
| 14 | He turned the horse away and walked off , ignoring her , and she went back to the house seething with annoyance . |
| 15 | He agreed , and we went back to the ball . |
| 16 | And we went back to the home and got Camellia . ’ |
| 17 | She snatched Buster from his play and we went back into the house where she held him close to her face , laughing as the big cat purred and arched himself ecstatically against her cheek . |
| 18 | My the boss said a few things under his breath , came down the steps and we went back into the van . |
| 19 | I think if we went back to the Inca ways , things would get better . |
| 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 | The water lapped about their feet , and they went back to the posts . |
| 22 | Strolling , they pondered public education versus private schooling ; Johnson wondered why boys from England had been sent as far as Aberdeen to be educated , with ‘ so many good schools in England ’ , and they went back to the New Inn , to be joined there by Sir Alexander Gordon , an old friend of Johnson 's , who had sent a card in advance , and through Boswell we join their conversation as it drifts back to the stocking-making . |
| 23 | Well , I think , I do n't know if they went back to the pits and sort of left , but he did n't want to stay there and and got this job as a gamekeeper . |
| 24 | And he went back to the bin . |
| 25 | The dinner , Maxim decided , would be best remembered as ‘ nourishing ’ , and he went back to the ante-room to do something about the taste of it . |
| 26 | John Lucero stayed around so long everyone thought he was a local until he went back to the States . |
| 27 | But you went back to the hangar a second time with your matches to start a second fire — to destroy the very work which you did . ’ |
| 28 | But they went back to the same orphanages which were grim.There was a determination to help them . |
| 29 | I ordered a double portion of chicken and a Seven-Up and went to a table while they went back to the late movie on Channel 4 on a portable television . |
| 30 | He told the gatekeeper to keep vigil while he went back to the station for assistance . |