Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] back [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have a special position in that the oldest regiment in the British Army is the Honourable Artillery Company , which traces its history back to 1537 , whereas the oldest regular units go back only to the middle of the 17th century . |
| 2 | In the meantime , he could raise a harvest of tobacco , indigo and cotton , to be ripe and ready on the Hopewell 's return to ship back home to the Lord Clovelly ; a load of perhaps ten thousand pounds of goods to increase his fortune , reinforce his foothold . |
| 3 | Hold this position for a few seconds then let your shoulders and head go back slowly to the floor . |
| 4 | A large part of their earnings went back again to the USA for investment ; as a result they had to pay Belpan National Bank 's transfer charges twice . |
| 5 | Never mind that they might have tipped off Gaddafi by doing so , there was nobody now left on the ground to report back directly to the United States government on the effects of the bombing . |
| 6 | Here the guard changed over and the train headed back eastwards to the coast . |
| 7 | Admittedly the current burst of improvement dates back only to the Renaissance , which was preceded by a dismal period of stagnation , in which European scientific culture was frozen at the level achieved by the Greeks . |
| 8 | The Chinese cosmology based on li and ch'i goes back only to the Neo-Confucian movement of the Sung dynasty ( AD 960–1279 ) , a conceptual revolution which can itself be understood in Kuhnian terms as a response to the breakdown of an older paradigm . |