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go back

verb

to return
often foll by to to originate (in)
the links with France go back to the Norman Conquest
foll by on to change one's mind about; repudiate (esp in the phrase go back on one's word )
(of clocks and watches) to be set to an earlier time, as during British Summer Time
when do the clocks go back this year?

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First, one fights with another, then they make an alliance, then they go back to fighting each other.

There are a lot of people who go back and forth now and blend both approaches into their work.

He was told he could go back home to his house arrest to celebrate the New Year with his wife and their two children.

Then, depending on how urgent I think it is to get it, sometimes I have to go back home and drop it off.

To regain their relevancy, Democrats need to go back to their evolutionary roots.

At the present time, certainly, no thought has ever occurred to Germans that they would not go back to a gold basis.

Squinty started to go back the way he had come, but I guess you can imagine what happened.

"In the morning I shall go back to the boy who taught me tricks," thought Squinty.

Let us go back to the capital, and the responsibility shall fall on my shoulders alone.'

Malcolm asked her gently to go back to the helm and keep it jammed hard-a-starboard until they arrived at the left bank.

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