Example sentences of "went back [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , he went back on the twenty-third of April 1950 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He put the letter in his Out tray and moved on to another piece of paper , and then he stopped and went back to the first letter . |
| 4 | After I started with Veronica , Mrs D went back to the First Spiritualists . ’ |
| 5 | I filled the plastic detergent-bottle and primed the lighter , left it lying on the top of the bank most of the rabbit holes were in , then went back to the first of the blocked-up holes and lit the fuse with my disposable cigarette-lighter . |
| 6 | ‘ When you 've finished , it 'll look like a snooker table , ’ he said cheerfully , and , reversing deftly , he went back for the next lot . |
| 7 | It was a movement whose history went back into the Second World War , into the New York clubs that had bred Charlie Parker , Dizzy Gillespie , and the new jazz of be-bop . |