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Example sentences for "went back"

  • You talk as that dear weeping ass Jack Marget preached before I went back to my work in Red Lion House, Spitalfields.

  • I went back with my people, each one carrying his Knife, and making it sing in the air--tssee-sssse.

  • I went back to the South Saxons after twelve--fifteen--years.

  • Then he went back to the cold room in the Pension Schwarz, and told himself he was a fool to live alone when one could live like a prince for the same sum properly laid out.

  • Ridiculous as the thought was, Peter pondered it as he went back to the Pension Schwarz.

  • After they had gone, I went back to Her Majesty.

  • I went back to the jewel room and fortunately found No.

  • Her Majesty ordered one of the eunuchs to bring one of her dresses for me to try on, so I went back to my own room, and took off my wet clothes and changed.

  • Her Majesty said that I should learn to play dice with her, as she never had enough people to play with, so we went back to the same room where she had taken her lunch.

  • Then we went back of the screen, with the Young Empress.

  • If I could be less affectionate and sensitive, I should have a better digestion and an iron set of nerves.

  • I know what you're a going to say, Pip; stay a bit!

  • We then parted, and I went back to my clergyman, and Will Atkins went in to talk with his companions.

  • I consulted my partner again in this exigency, and he was as much at a loss as I was.

  • He went back to Boston, and quite undismayed got up a duplex telegraph.

  • He went back to Providence and set to work, and brought the engine back with him to the shop.

  • He went back to the works and waited until six when the day men came, and telegraphed for a carriage.

  • I went back to bed again, and in the morning was a little dismayed to find that my pretty visitors had eaten up nearly all my green corn.

  • Knowing that the ordinary food must be repulsive to my new and delightful companions, I went back to a certain island, where, during my journey from the little sand-spit to the main, I had hidden a quantity of corn beneath a cairn.

  • No, I went back direct to the camp of the natives, and remained among them until the moment came for my departure.

  • I went back, not quite accustomed yet to the change, but all the better for that hovering about my darling.

  • He went back to the window, and laying his arm across it, leaned his head down on his arm.

  • As soon as King Menador had finished, Tirant's ambassador turned his back and left without another word, and he went back to his camp.

  • When he saw that it was impossible, he went back to the gate with an easy heart, thinking it must be a woman.

  • When she had dressed again she went back to where the emperor was.

  • Then Diafebus took his leave and went back to his lodgings where he told Tirant everything he and the princess had said.

  • Some one was lurking on the staircase when I went back.

  • When I went back, Mr. Harton was furtively wiping his eyes.

  • We went back to the house, and Gertrude, who was more like herself since her talk with Halsey, sat down at the mahogany desk in the living-room to write a letter.

  • What did Bailey do when he went back to the Knickerbocker apartments that night?

  • Then, after a pause, he went back to her again.

  • We went back to the frontier, and the regiment saw a lot of service.

  • It made me feel somehow a little sick; I went back to my cart and drove home.

  • We spent a pleasant summer with a little girl in the house whose interest in us was amusing, and whose outings it was gratifying to arrange; but when we went back, I had no desire to take her with us.

  • Membership, so we went back to Simla for three perfectly unnecessary years, which we now look back upon with pleasure and regret.

  • But as for Timotheus, they found him not in those places, for before he had dispatched any thing he went back, having left a very strong garrison in a certain hold: 12:19.

  • And all the people whom Ismahel had taken, went back to Masphath: and they returned and went to Johanan the son of Caree.

  • And Alcimus saw that Judas and they that were with him, prevailed: and he knew that he could not stand against them, and he went back to the king, and accused them of many crimes.

  • I went back to my work a little depressed--why had I not white hair?

  • The rabbits had apparently played and browsed unmindful of the stir, and were still flirting their white tails along the hedgerows; a lark rose, another and another, and I went back to my road.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "went back" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    above ground; little world; other people; something different; think will; went across; went again; went ahead; went aloft; went and; went around; went away; went before; went directly; went downstairs; went every; went first; went forth; went from; went home; went into; went quickly; went then; went through; went towards; went west