Example sentences of "[noun] go [adv] [prep] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concept goes back at least as far as 1877 when Jessel MR stated in Winn v Bull [ 1877 ] 7 Ch 29 that " where you have a proposal or agreement made in writing expressed to be subject to a formal contract being prepared , it means what it says ; it is subject to and is dependent upon a formal contract being prepared . " |
| 2 | And with his wife gone out for long enough with one of her admirers … |
| 3 | Official efforts to protect the cultivator against an oppressive lord went back at least as far as legislation by the Emperor Leopold I in 1680 ; and in many ways Maria Theresa showed a truer concern for her peasant subjects than her son was ever to do . |
| 4 | No great manual dexterity is required to perform the technique , in that all these reactions go on by simply automatically heating and cooling without ever opening the reaction tube . |
| 5 | Anna 's affair went on for much longer and she became so dependent on it that there was no way she could go back . |
| 6 | The weighing , recording and allocation of prizes goes on until about 4pm , when the winning berries go on display until 7.30pm . |
| 7 | As that generation went on to personally more attractive or socially more distinguished occupations , the assembly lines there reached out to more distant refugees from poor farming and mining areas and to the erstwhile sharecroppers and other deprived rural workers of the Deep South . |
| 8 | Ideas relating the folds and faults expressed in the Mesozoic cover of southern England to the underlying basement structure go back at least as far as Godwin-Austen ( 1856 ) , but have gradually become more firmly based . |
| 9 | The idea that criminality is the outcome of organic disorder or disease goes back at least as far as Lombroso , who associated crime with epilepsy . |