Go by something

Go back to doing something

Go back to

Go back to

Go back for

Go away on

Go away to

Go away for

We're going away for the weekend.

He's going away to college next year.

I'm going away on a business trip next week.

3. if a problem, unpleasant feeling etc goes away, it disappears

Ignoring the crime problem won't make it go away.

go back phrasal verb

1. to return to a place that you have just come from

I think we ought to go back now.

go back to/into/inside etc

I felt so sick I just wanted to go back to bed.

I had to go back for my passport ( =to get my passport).

2. there's no going back

spoken used to say that you cannot make a situation the same as it was before

I realized that once the baby was born there would be no going back.

3. [ always + adverb/preposition] to have been made, built, or started at some time in the past

It's a tradition that goes back at least 100 years.

The building goes back to Roman times.

4. if people go back a particular length of time, they have known each other for that length of time

Peter and I go back 25 years. We go back a long way (=we have been friends for a long time).

5. to think about a particular time in the past or something that someone said before

If you go back 20 years, most people didn't own a computer.

I'd like to go back to the point that was made earlier.

go back on something phrasal verb

to not do something that you promised or agreed to do

go back on your word/promise/decision

Delors claimed that the President had gone back on his word.

go back to something phrasal verb

to start doing something again after you have stopped for a period of time

He went back to sleep.

She went back to watching TV.

go before phrasal verb

1. to happen or exist before something else

In some ways this program improves on what has gone before.

2. go before somebody/something

if something goes before a judge, group of people in authority etc, they consider it before making a decision

The case will go before the court. The proposal is likely to go before the committee.

go beyond something phrasal verb

to be much better, worse, more serious etc than something else

Their relationship had gone beyond friendship. This goes beyond all limits of acceptable behaviour.

go by phrasal verb

1. if time goes by, it passes

Things will get easier as time goes by. as the days/weeks/years go by hardly a As the weeks went by, I became more and more worry.. in days/times/years etc gone by (=in the past) These herbs would have been grown for medicinal purposes in days gone by.

to form an opinion about someone or something from the information or experience that you have

You can't always go by appearances. If his past plays are anything to go by, this should be a play worth watching.

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