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Example sentences for "going back"

  • And look at those boats coming--when are we going back, daddy?

  • Daddy," said Dick, "when are we going back?

  • We aren't going back, my child," replied his father.

  • That book of M'Naughten's,' resumed the other, going back to his subject.

  • I am going back to the line I took naturally when I first began to study at all.

  • You talk of going back to a dull routine of toil, when what you most desire is freedom.

  • The Effects of this Fourth State of Prayer--Earnest Exhortations to those who have attained to it not to go back nor to cease from Prayer, even if they fall--The great Calamity of going back XX.

  • Let that soul, then, have no fear that it is going back, though it may frequently stumble; for the building is begun on a firm foundation.

  • Is there any way at all for me to go on which is not a going back?

  • I am going back to town by the morning train," pursued the lawyer.

  • Gooseberry decided on going back to the office.

  • I don't understand my walking down-stairs, and along corridors, and my opening and shutting the drawers of a cabinet, and my going back again to my own room.

  • In going back to her own room, her nightgown must have brushed the wet paint on the door.

  • He's going back to Washington and it suited him to have him.

  • I like to feel that she has got friends," he said, going back to Mary's proposed visit.

  • He was, he said, going back to London in the course of next week, but he did not mind making himself responsible to the extent of fifty dollars if the thing were carried on, bona fide, to a conclusion.

  • But for Elizabeth and Blair there was no going back; they had indeed fired the Ephesian dome!

  • I am going back to him," she said; and put Mrs. Richie's hand against her lips.

  • You see, I am going back to my little daughter.

  • Then, by Allah, there can be no going back now," said Ben Aboo; and he told her what was the penalty of apostasy.

  • I'm going back to bed, and in the morning--" He rose and went toward the door.

  • Well, there ain't a great many to," said Whitwell, going back to his axe.

  • And I'm going back to the fellows," decided Tom, shaking his long legs.

  • Yes, my grandson, Thomas, is going back to school.

  • Well, I'm going back to my chair if you've got through with me, Louisa.

  • Now we ought to run over to the others, for they'll be going back to the hotel.

  • In the morning Dave said, 'I'm going back to that house.

  • He's going back to be buried with his friends at Th' Canary.

  • I'd thought he'd forgotten those words--he seemed to be going back.

  • Is it true that you're going back to America?

  • James Bellbridge is going back to New York, to open a saloon (as they call it) in partnership with another man.

  • From sheer dread of going back before he came, she let her hair fall, though it was quite smooth and tidy, and began brushing it.

  • In this miserable tumult, the only thought that did not come to her was that of going back to his chambers.

  • Instead of going back to the House of Commons, he went straight to a strike-breaking agency.

  • I'm by way of going back to town to-morrow afternoon," he began tentatively.

  • In any case, she tells me she's going back to live at Constantinople.

  • Oh--I'm going back to business in a few days.

  • So in going back, the result of the inevitable disillusionment is that the early mental picture loses something of its original freshness.

  • He stayed in now so as not to lose me when I went for a walk, and when returning, instead of going back to his kennel, he followed me in and threw himself down, all wet, on the rug before the fire.

  • He walked through it, seeing nothing, asking his way, losing himself, going back, wandering aimlessly.

  • I have seen what I wanted to see, and we had best be going back.

  • I said, as September had begun, you would be going back to school; but you accepted the invitation, or rather your mother did for you, without any allusion to your school.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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