Example sentences of "going back to the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Going back to the scene of the Crucifixion , do you think that you could add something to a scene which has been treated for almost 2000 years ?
2 But they remained Germans , always dreaming of going back to the Fatherland one day . ’
3 THE enthusiastic housekeeper will no doubt be pleased to hear that the carpet retailers are going back to the twist .
4 Nevertheless , going back to the way the system works in practice , you still have housing benefit .
5 The other thing is that of course , going back to the competition with price , these holidays were n't that expensive .
6 " I 'm going back to the station for a wash , " he said , " and then I 'm going to have breakfast .
7 so , erm , they rang and they rang , and they rang for a good twenty to twenty five minutes and we just erm , we , we all huddled together in the living room , and erm , anyway about half an hour went past , and then they finally went , we saw them , we live in a flat , and we saw them from the window , we saw them going back to the station you see .
8 According to the law , going back to the narrative , the story of Ruth and Boaz according to the law , the widow she would remove the shoe of the kinsman who refused to redeem her and she would spit in his face because he had rejected , he had failed to fulfil his duty , his responsibility .
9 Going back to the subject of their parents thinking about it .
10 As in After Strange Gods , he is concerned in his conclusion with a return to sources , that is with going back to the savage and working forwards towards his solution to the problem– of modern industrial life ; again such a movement is presented in terms of a familiar encounter .
11 Now , going back to the incident with the door .
12 The paper concludes with one view of how a workable integration practice might be achieved by going back to the drawing-board and examining the aims and objectives of educational integration .
13 Neighbours said they were going back to the country .
14 ‘ I do n't see him going back to the Council , ’ Dann said banteringly .
15 Going back to the harvest time
16 But you do need to do good voice and movement workouts — it 's like going back to the keyboard for a musician .
17 Sid Field asked whether dead ones were accepted and John Stanley sent in a Bob Dylan song , saying he was the only ‘ modern whose lyrics I coul get my hands on without going back to the Bard , and I thought that was n't what you wanted ’ .
18 PHYSICS lecturers are going back to the nursery to teach toddlers in the water tub while admissions tutors consider the merits of palm-reading and astrology for selecting students at Newcastle Polytechnic .
19 you 're going where ? , you 're going back to the moon , oh have you co , have you come back from the moon now ?
20 you 're going back to the moon ?
21 It meant going back to the village first and taking another road out .
22 And erm I think we 'll be going back to the kind of erm conditions that there were in the Victorian age and in Dickens ' age .
23 One lady remembered the processions to the Preaching Cross in Towngate , where there would be a short address before going back to the church .
24 He he 's arguing I think on a basis of , of the experience of the past few years that the situation now in China was a , was a rather variable one , that land reform had proceeded at different rates in different areas and because areas where different that had to be taken into account and Mao explicitly was going back to the idea that in the newly liberated areas the policy would be one of rent reduction , interest rate reduction and that rent and interest rate reduction had to be established for some time until the position had consolidated around rent reduction , around interest rate reduction and once that had happened you would then be able to go into land reform itself .
25 ‘ The only reason I can imagine is — again , going back to the management and the bottom line — that he went into the Vegas thing .
26 It was peaceful with the plop-of the gas fire and the dark sky outside through the window , for like many old people Doris did not draw her curtains till late and Linda did not feel like going back to the bustle of tea-time , but she could n't keep them waiting for their tea .
27 Gooch has moved himself now to a very advanced second slip , no he 's going back to the aisle or to , I thought perhaps his position as Lawrence comes into short down the leg side and Russell takes it on his knees , but the conscience I think of the ball not carrying , he just mostly can , Chris Lewis that , come up a yard or two and Lewis scraps a mark with his boot .
28 ‘ Oh , I 'm well enough , ’ Mrs Clamp said , shaking her head and coming down off the stool , picking up some more frozen burgers and going back to the freezer .
29 A series of synthetic compounds , with a long pedigree going back to the work of Crum Brown and Fraser in the 1860s ( see chapter 2 ) , were produced simultaneously by R. B. Barlow and H. R. Ing in the Pharmacology Laboratory at Oxford and by W. D. M. ( later Sir William ) Paton and Eleanor Zaimis at the National Institute for Medical Research .
30 So going back to the parallel , have you had any thoughts about it ?
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