Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] back to the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The irony that Charlton finally got back to the First Division in 1986 , the year their exile from The Valley began , is n't lost on Ufton . |
| 2 | And again , if he wanted to alter a painting later after its completion , if he did not go back to the first idea and atmosphere of conception , he could never make the alteration a success . |
| 3 | Clements Farm is of great antiquity , the building itself probably dates back to the 15th century , and happily has been boarded up to prevent more deterioration . |
| 4 | This old farmhouse resting in the village of Raskelf ( the name means ‘ the shelf of the roe deer ’ ) , probably dates back to the 18th century . |
| 5 | The family Olive Saunderson married into had a story to equal her own , also stretching back to the seventeenth century when Zachariah Field left Yorkshire to settle in Massachusetts as a yeoman farmer Norman Field 's father was born there in 1831 . |
| 6 | In most cases , the stem simply withers back to the first node , and remains as an unsightly brown spur . |
| 7 | I filled the plastic detergent-bottle and primed the lighter , left it lying on the top of the bank most of the rabbit holes were in , then went back to the first of the blocked-up holes and lit the fuse with my disposable cigarette-lighter . |
| 8 | The private sector of rented accommodation has become a relatively minor part of the housing market and its long-term decline certainly stretches back to the First World War . |