Example sentences of "went back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never went back during the military period . |
| 2 | I was , as usual , appallingly nervous , so went back during the lunch hour to practise . |
| 3 | Er and when it progressed to automatic tools , all these tools were kept in a store at night , and you collected them in the morning when you went back onto the job . |
| 4 | Stephen went back across the river again , clambering over the boulders . |
| 5 | Christy went back across the sea for a ceremony on Leros to commemorate those who had died for their countries during the five day battle . |
| 6 | I went back at the weekend and it was a pile of rubble . |
| 7 | When I went back on the Wednesday , Miss Hale , the Headmistress of the Infants ' School asked why I had been absent . |
| 8 | I stopped taking my testosterone tablets and went back on the dole again . |
| 9 | He went back on the last-minute promise to them to delay the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 10 | I 'm frightened of the probation and the social services finding out that I 'm using again , 'cos when I came out this time , they said to me that , if I ever went back on the smack , that the kids 'd be took off me , no two ways about it … . |
| 11 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 12 | But once record companies went back on the sales offensive the new pop was easily coopted . |
| 13 | Then I became allergic to Durex so I went back on the Pill , a different one . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , he went back on the twenty-third of April 1950 . |
| 15 | I went back on the c |
| 16 | Oxford Regional Health Authority explained why it went back on the original decision saying , ’ We understood that the law said quite clearly the health authority could not provide treatment in private homes . |
| 17 | And erm she said all right and I said what do I do with them and she said I 'll put them down in the base at the back and I said all right so I went back on the shop floor just before I was coming out come out . |
| 18 | looked at some trains and then went back on the D M U. |
| 19 | so he went back on the night time , got the bags how embarrassing , he did it |
| 20 | Leaving David with Mr Catlett , Peggy went back to the table and sat down . |
| 21 | By early evening , I was just too bored to stick the place any longer so I went back to the hotel . |
| 22 | I went back to the porch and hid my night bag behind a headstone and then left for another long walk to Harwich . |
| 23 | The following morning at nine o'clock I went back to the coffee shop , just to show that I was still around . |
| 24 | After the war Attlee went back to the more responsible system . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She went back to the corner and across to the nearby pub , where she sat sipping beer , munching a cheese sandwich , and waiting . |
| 27 | Phoebe went back to the kitchen , heated up some tinned soup and made tuna fish sandwiches . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He went back to the girl , sat down on the opposite side of the desk and gave a brisk nod . |
| 30 | The logical crisis went back to the time when he first started to read philosophy as an undergraduate and related to his reading of the English Idealist philosophers , as well as to his return ( for the purposes of passing his exams , and later as a tutor ) to the English empiricists of the eighteenth century . |