Example sentences of "go [adv] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Aladdin goes right back to the 1,001 Nights , showing us Scheherezade ( Eartha Kitt ) being turned into the Genie of the Ring and the Caliph of Baghdad ( Sylvester McCoy ) into the Slave of the Lamp by the Grand Vizier Abanazer ( Peter Blake as a deliciously over-the-top wicked uncle ) . |
| 2 | ‘ It had to be Windsor , too — not Balmoral or Sandringham but the castle that goes right back to the Normans — and the Queen 's favourite chapel , stripped to a skeleton of its former self . |
| 3 | You have probably tried a variety of methods of losing weight with temporary success , only to find that the weight goes right back on again as soon as you return to your normal diet . |
| 4 | but the back of the settee goes right back I know it looks nice , that 's about all I 'll say for it . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're goin' to go right back to that shop and we 're goin' to give my book back . ’ |
| 6 | However , speaking commentary while watching the screen for cues is not easy , and if you make a mistake you have to go right back to the beginning and start all over again . |
| 7 | And instead of going up the jetty they went down and they were going to go right back to Rousay again . |
| 8 | However — given some perception along the way we do n't have to go right back to the beginning again . |
| 9 | we went to Trafalgar Square and we stopped to look at the pigeons and we 'd moved on and I , I suddenly realised I had n't got Vicky with me , so I looked all round , could n't see him , had to go right back to Trafalgar Square and he was still looking at the pigeons |
| 10 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
| 11 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
| 12 | The vast majority of black people go to church ; it 's a way of life that goes way back . |
| 13 | The idea is for the business to go directly back to the woodworker . ’ |
| 14 | If we want to go further back in history ( and are prepared to be suitably eclectic ) we can find a similarly expressed contrast between Roundheads and Cavaliers . |
| 15 | by no means all rhyolite lavas are associated with obsidian — the majority are not — and , as one goes further back through the geological record , obsidian becomes progressively more and more scarce , due to devitrification , and none at all is found in rocks more than a few million years old . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , and it goes further back . |
| 17 | In post-war years MI5 has been remarkably unsuccessful at catching spies and traitors in our midst , going right back to Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean who in the summer of 1951 defected under the noses of MI5 despite supposedly being under surveillance . |
| 18 | What about going right back again , what was what relation of i of yours was the the had something to do with breeding horses is that right ? |
| 19 | Going further back again , local authorities had made good use , on a comparative basis , of national reading surveys . |
| 20 | ‘ This tour is going to be very retrospective , though ; we 're going way back . |
| 21 | ‘ Going way back to 1911 . ’ |
| 22 | There was also the possibility of sexual jealousy , going way back , but Greg had thought that over a lot , and still did not feel inclined to take the possibility seriously . |
| 23 | When I get out , I 'm going straight back home . |
| 24 | They have a record going well back into the Cambrian , when it might be supposed that the chordates were undergoing a major diversification . |
| 25 | Etna is a big volcano , much the highest in Europe , and it has a record of activity going well back into history . |
| 26 | Scientists , just like former communists , are going joyfully back to church . |
| 27 | The ideal is for me to stop out here on me own because , if I go into a unit or something and stop , it 's quite easy to go straight back on the gear . |
| 28 | Dad said , Keep away from Eladeldi. because everything they see goes straight back to the Capellans . |
| 29 | While appreciating the need to continue good exporting conditions for this major Scottish commodity , one could argue that perhaps much of the tax revenue goes straight back into the system to treat those many people who suffer from alcohol misuse or abuse ( not just whisky , of course ) . |
| 30 | Erm , er , now of course to get back to the ambulance erm if somebody comes out of an epileptic fit and goes immediately back into another one , then you must call an ambulance , it takes so much from the person , it takes so much energy that the person ca n't possible go into one fit after another , erm without showing some affects and therefore you would have to get them to hospital , if you do n't and they have two or three fits one after another they can die , so they must go to hospital . |