Example sentences of "he went back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went back to the shaving mirror to comb his hair and when he had finished he pushed a folded handkerchief into his sleeve with quiet satisfaction . |
| 2 | He went back to the girl , sat down on the opposite side of the desk and gave a brisk nod . |
| 3 | When he reached the last machine he went back to the beginning and played them all again . |
| 4 | He went back to the book . |
| 5 | Yesterday he went back to the city to see if the voters to whom he spoke had changed their minds |
| 6 | He saw Mariana shiver as he went back to the table and slipped the Walther into his belt . |
| 7 | Politicians were masters of the quick recovery , Trent thought as he went back to the front room . |
| 8 | He told the gatekeeper to keep vigil while he went back to the station for assistance . |
| 9 | Then he went back to the bathroom and turned off the taps . |
| 10 | John Lucero stayed around so long everyone thought he was a local until he went back to the States . |
| 11 | He went back to the ballet , he said , after a period of doubt , because he walked into a studio and saw a young woman putting her feet into the rosin box to stop her shoes from slipping : the familiar action , a mixture of habit and discipline and grace , made him realize where his heart belonged . |
| 12 | Then he went back to the cutlery drawer and , with a skill born of long practice , lobbed knives and forks over to Maisie , who set them down in her customary eccentric manner . |
| 13 | The very next day he went back to the doctor to tell him what had happened . |
| 14 | And he went back to the bin . |
| 15 | Several times he went back to the spot where he had hidden the sack as though unable to believe it had gone . |
| 16 | The next day he went back to the factory and found out the time of the funeral . |
| 17 | He went back to the small house in which Grégoire lived , and attempted to interview his mother . |
| 18 | Then he went back to the attack . |
| 19 | Angry , he went back to the ticket-window . |
| 20 | He went back to the hall . |
| 21 | He went back to the kitchen . |
| 22 | He went back to the dinner-table . |
| 23 | Giving her his hanky , he went back to the restaurant and came back with a glass of iced water . |
| 24 | While he still had five fingers under his command he went back to the window and dropped Estabrook 's letter through , murmuring the address with a tongue that felt disfigured in his mouth . |
| 25 | Somewhat perplexed , he went back to the office . |
| 26 | I do not know whether he went back to the château on his own . |
| 27 | He waited for some minutes , then , very quietly and carefully , he went back to the door of her dressing-room . |
| 28 | Then he went back to the coffee counter , where two girls were talking about pop singers . |
| 29 | He went back to the armchairs . |
| 30 | He went back to the cage and concentrated on Bobo , because she seemed to be giving him more attention and was sitting close up to the bars . |