Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] back [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Binyon has thought ; he has plunged into the knowledge of the East and extended the borders of occidental knowledge , and yet his mind constantly harks back to some folly of nineteenth century Europe . |
| 2 | A Formalist/Prague School approach thus necessarily projects back onto earlier literature the aesthetic standards peculiar to the modern age . |
| 3 | A field where the sign no longer refers back to real objects or persons but instead constructs what is to be perceived within the system of signification . |
| 4 | But Trogus soon falls back into imaginary history when he tells the episode of the chieftain Catumarandus , who had been persuaded in a dream by a goddess to make peace with Massalia . |
| 5 | A specialist in failure analysis in that unit is Tony Jones , whose involvement in AIB investigations also goes back over many years . |
| 6 | Diana now looks back on those days at Coleherne Court as the happiest time of her life . |
| 7 | ‘ The citizenship law we have now harks back to another era , ’ one CDU official said . |
| 8 | This despair frequently relates back to early experiences when adults were literally more powerful than children and were therefore blamed by those children for some of the awful things , real or imaginary , that happened to them . |
| 9 | The air , thus refreshed , rises to the top of the nest and then circulates back down other passageways . |
| 10 | Sam starts humming the riff from ‘ Caroline ’ with a fondness that nine years ' respite should have erased , and then snaps back into historical mode . |
| 11 | Sandra takes the compliment gracefully , then moves back to those magazine fantasies . |