Example sentences of "[vb -s] back [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judith Grossman 's novel , Her Own Terms , published in 1988 , looks back at a working-class scholarship-girl in the 1950s , who goes to Oxford from a South London Grammar school ; Grossman shows in passing how formidably well-read and linguistically equipped her heroine was . |
| 2 | Ronnie Biggs harks back to a bygone age . |
| 3 | ‘ Each panic harks back to a mythical age of contentment and social order . ’ |
| 4 | Our traditional attractions include the beginnings of the white cliffs of Dover , historic monuments such as the landing places of St. Augustine and Julius Caesar , and the medieval cinque port of Sandwich , whose parliamentary representation stretches back in an unbroken line to the days of Simon de Montfort . |
| 5 | Not too often that a company goes back to a previous vendor after switching , but Hydro Mississauga Ltd of the eponymous Ontario town , is returning to the Hewlett-Packard Co HP 3000 with Mitchell Humphrey & Co financials , after three years of using an IBM Corp 4381 : the change is being made in an effort to save $2m in operating costs and gain performance improvements , dumping the 4381 for an HP 3000 Series 957 running HP MPE/iX ; it says the power of the new machine has enabled it to reduce its operations shifts from three to two and to cut overnight batch processing from 11 to four hours , and one table-loading job was shortened from 14 hours to 20 minutes — and on-line response time is ‘ significantly improved ’ ; it switched from an HP 3000 Series 70 that lacked the capacity needed in 1989 , moving to the 4381 with Dun & Bradstreet Corp software . |
| 6 | The decision to abandon the Pavillon de Flore as a permanent exhibition space goes back to an official report drawn up before I.M. Pei started work on renovating the Museum and building his pyramid . |
| 7 | This need for the father probably goes back to an earlier stage of childhood than the phallic-Oedipal one to which we have so far confined our attention . |
| 8 | His speech goes back into a relaxed drawl , eyebrows half-cocked this time , and a mischievous glint makes the instigator of this flash of temper wonder whether he meant it in the first place . |
| 9 | It goes back for a hundred years or more . |
| 10 | Well really when I had the same thing , you know , and goes back for a little bit this morning and er same sort of thing . |
| 11 | Each time one hip thrusts forwards , the other draws back by an equal amount and is thus cocked for the next punch . |
| 12 | Thus progress always overreaches itself and mankind falls back into a new barbarism . |
| 13 | Statement B seems to admit the greatest amount of contingency into the determination of outcomes , but nevertheless still falls back on a tendential law to explain how racism is reproduced . |
| 14 | All too soon , the finest rocky clough in the Dark Peak levels out at around the 1500 feet contour and falls back at an easy angle towards Shining Clough Moss and Bleaklow Head . |
| 15 | However , healthy skin rebounds back to a normal pH of 4.5 in about 10–15 minutes . |
| 16 | Everyone who goes on assignment has a Career Manager , someone back at home base chartered to keep the assignee informed , happy , plugged-in — and to make sure he ( or even she ) comes back to a suitable job . |
| 17 | ‘ I feel it discourages burglars and it seems more welcoming when one comes back to an empty house . ’ |
| 18 | Hannah does that a lot , right , she goes to America and she comes back with an American accent , she goes to Scotland , she comes back with a Scottish accent , oh |
| 19 | He comes back with a little piece of paper in his hand waving it , peace in our time . |
| 20 | Hannah does that a lot , right , she goes to America and she comes back with an American accent , she goes to Scotland , she comes back with a Scottish accent , oh |
| 21 | Best song of the night though , is the bitter ‘ High As I Kite ’ which builds via a tense three minutes , drops out and then comes back like an annoyed shop customer , to have another go . |