Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes back to the major earthquake , magnitude 7 on the Richter scale , which rocked Greece in February 1981 . |
| 2 | The story goes back to Descartes . |
| 3 | The story goes back to Mnaseas , a writer of the second half of the second century B.C. ( c . |
| 4 | The base goes back to the RAFin SEptember 94. it 's not yet known what will be done with the land but many local people hope it 'll be used the upper H |
| 5 | Unlike GM , the young company had no car-making base to fall back on , so it started afresh . |
| 6 | Stress-free Duchess goes back to work |
| 7 | Encouraging each governor to adopt a class and giving them an opportunity to report back on their visits helps governors to have a sense of purpose and enables them to frame general reports and LEA/DES regulations in the context of their adopted classes and children . |
| 8 | I attend the Assembly as a Member of this House and I should like the opportunity to report back to the House , during a proper debate , on what I am doing in the Council of Europe . |
| 9 | There will be a growing need for experienced businesspeople to go back to school . |
| 10 | The story got back to England , as a result of which Lake was court- martialled and dismissed the Navy . |
| 11 | Its heritage goes back to when ‘ The Witan ’ , or the council of the Saxon kings , established the significance of Witney when they chose the then village as a meeting place in the 10th. and 11th. centuries . |
| 12 | Of course to go back to something I think Kirsty or somebody said , erm this could also happen un unconsciously could n't it ? |
| 13 | It 's at the top of Geal-Charn that you must make the decision to go back or carry on to Carn Dearg . |
| 14 | He added : ‘ I 'm happy I made the right decision to go back . |
| 15 | ‘ You were only doing it for yourself , using it as an excuse to go back in time and relive old memories . ’ |
| 16 | The origin of the synagogue goes back to the Babylonian period . |
| 17 | There is nothing what actually says , only when that cheque goes back to the bank , there 's nothing anywhere apart from the bank who says that cheque is actually made out to . |
| 18 | So far , 637 Vietnamese have returned voluntarily , and more than 1,000 have indicated willingness to go back . |
| 19 | If the essential qualities needed for reinventing health care under Mr Clinton are three — willingness to go back to first principles , faith in political action , and above all , a superhuman command of detail — then Mr Magaziner has spent his whole life in training for his current job . |
| 20 | When you 've finished the job , the bit goes back in its place , the carrying case is clipped shut , and it 's ready for next time . |
| 21 | The chariot goes back and forth , back and forth , chanting its litany , he wrote . |
| 22 | Professor John Ashworth , vice-chairman of the committee of vice-chancellors and principals ( CVCP ) , also urged Mr MacGregor to use ‘ a heaven-sent opportunity to go back to the drawing board and look at the entire issue of how students are supported — grants , loans and fees . ’ |
| 23 | Erm on the basis that er we were , when we were setting the , the targets , the time was set by the work study personnel erm and then the operator was able to obtain a trial run on the time given er and if at the end of the work , he was satisfied that he had made the target bonus , or near enough , or if he was satisfied that , given a little extra opportunity to go back onto that job should it come back again in the near future , then he would , he would see clearly that he could make at least fifty percent er which was the target bonus , and probably more . |
| 24 | So you would still be able to identify targets but those targets may become a bit more general , I E because in the past the landlord as a class had always sided with the Kuomintang then i it gives you the opportunity to go back and attack them , almost the landlords per se in a way you could n't during the Japanese war because clearly loyal landlords were fighting the Japanese . |
| 25 | The central figure , St Cecilia , seems rapt in such inspiration as produced her image in the painter 's mind ; her deep , dark , eloquent eyes lifted up ; her chestnut hair flung back from her forehead — she holds an organ in her hands — her countenance , as it were , calmed by the depth of its passion and rapture , and penetrated throughout with the warm and radiant light of life . |
| 26 | The machine was n't fit for this purpose so he had to good case to go back to Dixons and ask either for a replacement or his money back . |
| 27 | The armada turns back . |
| 28 | Fahey , whose international experience goes back to the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 , when he lost the bronze medal in a jump-off , qualified for last year 's World Cup Final , but decided his horse was not then ready for it . |
| 29 | In other words , I mean I 'm retired and I mean the point is that my erm experience goes back into the er into the dark ages I can almost say because in these days , you probably realise , I mean if anybody buys a video you do n't ask you do n't look for the book of instructions you ask about a five year old kiddy how to programme it ! |
| 30 | The investigators have already tested children in primary schools in Peterborough and have had permission to go back to further test these as well as to test in Bedford and Luton . |