Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The oldest tradition , which goes back to the contemporary historian John Foxe , claims that the queen and her Protestant councillors had intended to introduce a settlement based on the 1552 Prayer Book , but were later forced to make some concessions in the Catholic direction because of the implacable opposition of the bishops and some of the lay peers in the House of Lords . |
| 2 | Doubling in Dostoevsky , which goes back to the very beginning , to Mr Devushkin living and not living in the kitchen , which has its post-Siberian developments in the underground man 's now-you-see-me-now-you-don't ‘ flashing ’ of his consciousness , in Raskolnikov 's and Svidrigailov 's different ways of being among but not with us and Porfiry 's torture tune of ‘ There 's nothing here , precisely nothing , perhaps absolutely nothing ’ — doubling takes on a new form in The Possessed , closer to the I/We/They/Everybody/Nobody shifts of The House of the Dead than anything else before it or to come . |
| 3 | But it has a lyrical depth which reaches back to the great black music of the Seventies and artists like Stevie Wonder and Curtis Mayfield , while touching on Steely Dan , Elvis Costello and Joy Division . |
| 4 | Turn left on the road and walk for around 900 yards before turning right onto a path which leads up to the old railway and joins a road up to Castle Bolton Village . |
| 5 | The no-arbitrage band is ( S - D ) ( 1 + r ) - Sr ( l - f ) >or= F >or= ( S - D ) ( 1 + r ) , which can be rewritten as S ( 1 + rf ) - D ( 1 + r ) |
| 6 | The oral area is covered with skin , often with small granules , which extends on to the ventral surface of the arms . |
| 7 | A popular Greek saying is ‘ Know Thyself ’ , which dates back to the ancient Greeks . |
| 8 | She considers the idea , implicit in much feminist theory , of an authentic self which is said to be socially conditioned by patriarchal power , and argues that this idea owes much to a tradition in Western philosophy which dates back to the Aristotelian distinction between actions that are voluntary and actions which are coerced , a tradition that can be traced through Descartes to the present time . |
| 9 | And judges Sir John Harvey-Jones and foot writer Jocelyn Dimbleby with presenter Loyd Grossman have to choose the winner who goes through to the final ‘ cook-off ’ in July . |
| 10 | The winners of the best gross trophy then decide , either by mutual agreement or by a play-off , on the player who goes on to the national championships . |
| 11 | When one goes back to the real time in which we live , however , there will still appear to be singularities . |
| 12 | They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living . |
| 13 | Once again one comes back to the fundamental question of how much use all this is and whether the NSA really provides good value for money . |
| 14 | Our own sauces , or whatever , erm , if my mother makes a cake , it goes on to the top shelf , but usually we just use everything . |
| 15 | Probably , someone you would disapprove of I did n't know whether remember no probably not it goes back to the middle ages . |
| 16 | and then , once you 've claimed , it goes back to the original figure . |
| 17 | It goes back to the short term thing , you fear that they do n't do it as well . |
| 18 | Just to mention one more thing the force video , a number of community affairs staff have mentioned to me that it 's out of date cos it goes back to the previous organisation |
| 19 | It 's it 's er , the travellers tradition and it goes back to the old tradition of the Scottish people as well |
| 20 | ‘ It goes back to the old OSS days and the crusade we were running against Hitler along with your SOE and Dot Tuckey and people like that . |
| 21 | With true teen anger he latches on to the witty cynicism of the two Lenny 's , Cohen and Bruce , but fires them up with youthful vitriol . |
| 22 | And it , kind of faces both ways , it , it looks back to the early period of the development of Freud 's thought that we 've already spoken about , and its beginnings back in the eighteen nineties , and in certain other respects , it looks forward , to the kind of revolution that was going to occur after World War Two . |
| 23 | Finally about quarter to eight he shoots through to the other room and finds Dick and Joy Hardy there , they were supposed to be picking Gwen up and bringing her round . |
| 24 | If I change a number here , you 'll notice , si since I change that number here it recalculates through to the other file . |
| 25 | The pubic louse is broader than it is long and the four hind legs are equipped with claws with which it hangs on to the pubic hairs . |
| 26 | There are n't very many , I mean , it gets back to the other thing which is underlining my thinking about this stuff because erm you 're dealing with cultural form . |
| 27 | When he gets on to the old antibiotics he |
| 28 | That done , he leans over to the other side and does the same thing with his other hand and foot so that both his palms and his soles are anointed with his pungent urine . |
| 29 | Erm then he moves on to the middle peasants erm they 're similar , I mean once again they , they 've got enough to eat , they are , they are n't under as much stress , I mean th th they can su survive and so the idea of them risking all to support a revolution would be very er you know very risky at the time at the beginning er the opening period erm so once again th th I 'd say their conclusion is afraid not , you know , I wo n't join a peasant association , i it wo n't last . |
| 30 | That was that really … open flood gates … goal 2 … ball over the top for Wallace who went from 25 yds into the right of te area and finished absolutely brilliantly … goal 3 corner from right Strachan talking to the kop asking where to place it … hits it long … comes back to him he hits it it bobbles out to the left edge of the area where Speed hits it along the ground . |