Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] back a long way " in BNC.
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1 | Patrick Kelly and Frederick Flowers went back a long way . |
2 | Slazenger and sport go back a long way but did you know that they also have a great sports toiletries range ? |
3 | The literature on the professions goes back a long way , but seems to have reached a peak in the 1960s and 1970s ( see , for example , Etzioni 1969 ; Jackson 1970 ) , perhaps because the professions were at an apogee of esteem at that point , before the attacks of Illich ( 1977 ) and others who , like Shaw many years before , accused them of establishing a ‘ radical monopoly ’ in the name of meeting people 's ‘ needs ’ . |
4 | ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’ |
5 | Collective self-help and co-operative ways of tackling problems go back a long way . |
6 | He and Ockrent go back a long way — to a jointly written screenplay for Paul MacCartney , which ‘ never saw the light of day — a damn shame , because it was a lot better than Broad Street . |
7 | Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way . |
8 | Iron working in the area goes back a long way . |
9 | After all , his links to Christian democracy went back a long way . |
10 | However , social historians say couples having non-penetrative sex goes back a long way . |
11 | The roots of his disciplinarianism go back a long way . |
12 | The assumptions behind this unfortunate word go back a long way . |
13 | The arch-rivals go back a long way . |
14 | ‘ His family goes back a long way . ’ |
15 | For BP , involvement in the region goes back a long way . |
16 | The roots of the UK 's industrial decline go back a long way , certainly more than a century . |
17 | Links with Group marine coatings go back a long way . |
18 | Although ‘ systematization ’ struck many of its critics in the West in 1988–89 as an insane novelty , in fact its roots went back a long way . |