Example sentences of "go [adv] far back " in BNC.
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| 1 | This public assertion of my childhood 's usefulness stands side by side with the painful personal knowledge , I think the knowledge of all of us , going as far back as the story lets us , that it would have been better if it had n't happened that way , had n't happened at all . |
| 2 | They were in fact social outcasts , to whom documentary references can be found going as far back as the thirteenth century . |
| 3 | It goes as far back as to when Lord Ennals was Secretary of State . |
| 4 | It seems that a lot of the new guitar players in bands do n't seem to go back anymore to check who their idols were influenced by — like , they 'll go as far back as Jimmy Page then stop , without finding out about his influences … |
| 5 | Teddy refuses to be drawn on his early life and will only go as far back as the Biggin Hill Air Fair of June this year when Anita and Bob Armstrong ‘ adopted ’ him . |
| 6 | I did n't go that far back . |
| 7 | It is unnecessary to go too far back in history to discover the origins of some of the voluntary schemes for the provision of legal advice which now exist . |