Example sentences of "go back [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're going back thirty years are n't we ? |
| 2 | In its massive library both Babylonian and Greek records of the heavenly bodies , going back hundreds of years , were housed , studied and debated . |
| 3 | And I discover too that he is the culmination of centuries of God 's revelation recorded in documents going back hundreds of years before his time . |
| 4 | There are records of it going back hundreds of years all across Europe and it is presumed it was based on fertility influences . ’ |
| 5 | This company was founded in 1981 by William Jackson and John Turner in Kidderminster , a town in the UK with a tradition of carpet-making going back hundreds of years . |
| 6 | Apart from identifying me as a Leeds supporter , the quality is normally a LOT better than your average socks etc , I have socks which I still wear going back 6–7 years , and they still feel like socks ! |
| 7 | I do n't need to spell it out for you but the assumption is that he was going back drunk and got hit . |
| 8 | The farmer , who was a great coward , did n't like the idea of going back empty-handed to the tiger , but as he could not think of any other plan , he did as he was told . |
| 9 | So we are very honoured that Mr Austin has bred a rose just for us — a perfect beauty , the closest he has ever come to the old Alba rose , beloved of Redouté , and going back 2,000 years beyond him . |
| 10 | only going back one year . |
| 11 | Some harbour resentments going back many years , which only come to the surface when a crisis causes the couple to come for counselling . |
| 12 | It has historical connections going back many centuries , as early as the reign of Athelstan ( AD 925–940 ) ; it was the property of the church of St John of Beverley . |
| 13 | They 're there for one reason and one reason only I know , cos I 've been involved in fox hunting , I 've shot and fished but I 'll tell you something , was also trained to hunt humans , going back many years ago , when I was in the Falkland Islands training for the event that happened eventually . |
| 14 | Archaeologists have established that Jericho can claim to be one of the very oldest cities in the world , with a history going back all of ten thousand years . |
| 15 | What you must never forget is that I am not and never have been an ethnic of any description , and that I have never found any evidence that justifies any cretinous claim by you , or by any of your co-morons in the sewers of lofty racist Neanderthal , that Eurocentrism warrants any positive attention from those like myself who inherit — and consciously — a civilised tradition and philosophy going back millions of years . |
| 16 | Flat owners face losing their homes after being landed with a bill for ground rent going back fifteen years . |
| 17 | He subsequently er went to work at the Berlick in latter years and , and this man was just sweeping-up at the Berlick and I could n't believe it cos he was so high up in the technology in the war and he 'd be a dental mechanic and he 'd come down to just being a sweeper-up , and he used to show me the pay packets he 'd got in the war and you know it was fantastic money even , even by today 's standards this is going back fifteen years |
| 18 | The Llandinabo herd has British bloodlines going back 200 years . |
| 19 | And all agreed most bitterly , though no one uttered it , that they would be going back derided and disgraced . |
| 20 | The marvel of the Massinghams was that a lineage going back five hundred years could have produced so many generations of amiable nonentities . |
| 21 | And er I can remember several cases years ag you know so going back two or three years where people were debating with me why did n't I put more into National Savings ? |
| 22 | he got panelling from er a big hall outside St. Helen 's and er , he built this big room onto the pub oh this is going back nineteen sixty one |
| 23 | and the rent , when I , I 'm going back six years now , the rent to leave it there for twelve months was only seventy pound a year |
| 24 | Oh you 're going back ten years ? |
| 25 | But unfortunately , again , we 're goi , going back history-wise , the civils and the mechanicals and electricals , and you 've only got ta go to London and see what palatial places they got just virtually adjacent to the Houses of Parliament you 'll find mechanical engineers , and also the civil engineers in Bird Cage Walk . |
| 26 | Those who come as partners , patient and ready to learn and therefore better able to adapt their contribution before giving it , stand a better chance of going back happier and with a feeling it was worth it . |
| 27 | The court heard that Cowden , a former professional conman , had a string of convictions going back 53 years . |
| 28 | SOUL singer Whitney Houston yesterday cemented her place in a galaxy of stars going back 40 years with this year 's Christmas No. 1 . |
| 29 | THE BBC is to be stripped of responsibility for the Queen 's annual Christmas TV broadcast , ending a tradition going back 60 years . |
| 30 | But it is true , Liebchen , ancestry counts , a family line going back 600 years … and I see it in you . ’ |