Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] back [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ The citizenship law we have now harks back to another era , ’ one CDU official said . |
| 5 | Sam starts humming the riff from ‘ Caroline ’ with a fondness that nine years ' respite should have erased , and then snaps back into historical mode . |
| 6 | Sandra takes the compliment gracefully , then moves back to those magazine fantasies . |