Example sentences of "went back to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isabel 's gaze went back to the crumbling keep . |
| 2 | He told the gatekeeper to keep vigil while he went back to the station for assistance . |
| 3 | He was unable to find work and went back to the North to be near his little boy . |
| 4 | We were four days in Piraeus and every day I went back to the Acropolis . |
| 5 | Stella and Geoffrey went back to the theatre without collecting the paint . |
| 6 | Only in London and Liverpool was there any tradition of Mat building that went back to the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | In the afternoon he went back to the mill , and in the evening he studied his books and papers . |
| 8 | He went back to the mill because he knew he belonged there . |
| 9 | ‘ No , he often went back to the yard in the evenings and almost always on Friday evenings . |
| 10 | He went back to the bike and unlocked one of the panniers , coming back with a colourful helmet . |
| 11 | He then went back to the door to check for any sign of the security guards he was certain would be waiting for him . |
| 12 | He waited for some minutes , then , very quietly and carefully , he went back to the door of her dressing-room . |
| 13 | He went back to the door and kicked it shut , then prowled towards her . |
| 14 | He simply went back to the grooming and she could hardly believe it . |
| 15 | Then he went back to the attack . |
| 16 | Phoebe went back to the kitchen , heated up some tinned soup and made tuna fish sandwiches . |
| 17 | Steam issuing out of her ears like a kettle , she went back to the kitchen and spun sugar with some gusto . |
| 18 | She went back to the kitchen and found Mrs Stocks there with her daughter , Nancy . |
| 19 | He went back to the kitchen . |
| 20 | George replaced the receiver and went back to the kitchen . |
| 21 | Then she went back to the kitchen , poured herself another cup of tea , and crossed to the window . |
| 22 | She turned , without a word , and went back to the kitchen . |
| 23 | She let her breath out and went back to the kitchen to make the tea . |
| 24 | Her forced smile still in place , she handed out the sheets , then went back to the kitchen and grabbed the pad and pencil that was thrust at her . |
| 25 | I went back to the kitchen . |
| 26 | When she went back to the kitchen Penry 's tray stood on the counter , the plates satisfactorily empty . |
| 27 | Swallowing her tears , she went back to the kitchen to clear up . |
| 28 | She went back to the bed and touched her grandmother 's forehead with the handkerchief . |
| 29 | I went back to the optician a few days after the lenses were fitted . |
| 30 | One last peer before she went back to the basting brought a gasp from Sally : He 's coming this way ! ’ |