What is "gone back"

Usage examples of "gone back".

A few days ago she had gone back east for two weeks to visit her aunts in Michigan, taking along their son Tyler, who was starting college in two months in Ann Arbor.

Tony came in the dark and the lashing rain and in a few minutes he was gone back into the night forever, but in the brief interval between he raised the curtain on a scene of new horror, a curtain that she felt hopelessly would never be lowered again.

For the most part, he'd be on his own in that effort, since the townsfolk had, of necessity, gone back to their own business, finally giving up on locating Emily.

That summer's teaching had been the freak of a college student, who had gone back to his senior year strengthened by his experience of village life.

For as often as I feel myself disquieted and weighed down, I find myself to have gone back from this teaching.

It was known that an accident had befallen the young lady's horse-and all were aware that a groom had gone back with his lordship to Dunstanborough-but no importance was attached to this circumstance.

The remaining two had gone back wordlessly to their mountains - and this autumn not a single villager had disappeared.

This mob had risen up out of the earth apparently, and to all intents and purposes, its work done, it had gone back into the earth.

Many Russians would have thought as he did, and more than one would have turned his horse and gone back again, after a hare had crossed his path.

Interviews were over, the camera-crew had gone back to the studio to edit the next installment of the show.

Our country was poor and rugged, and though we defied the Spaniards and paid them no tribute, now that Cortes had gone back to Spain, they had no heart to attempt our conquest.

Now get thee gone back to thy lass, and give her a sweet kiss from me.