Example sentences of "[noun sg] go back [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The base goes back to the RAFin SEptember 94. it 's not yet known what will be done with the land but many local people hope it 'll be used the upper H |
| 2 | There is nothing what actually says , only when that cheque goes back to the bank , there 's nothing anywhere apart from the bank who says that cheque is actually made out to . |
| 3 | Professor John Ashworth , vice-chairman of the committee of vice-chancellors and principals ( CVCP ) , also urged Mr MacGregor to use ‘ a heaven-sent opportunity to go back to the drawing board and look at the entire issue of how students are supported — grants , loans and fees . ’ |
| 4 | Fahey , whose international experience goes back to the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 , when he lost the bronze medal in a jump-off , qualified for last year 's World Cup Final , but decided his horse was not then ready for it . |
| 5 | Much of the Bible 's teaching goes back to the way we are made ; it goes back to creation itself . |
| 6 | The very important interest JCI has in the diamond industry goes back to the days when Barney Barnato , together with Cecil Rhodes played an important role in the establishment of De Beers in Kimberley . |
| 7 | Lord Vansittart , a former Foreign Office official , had written a pamphlet entitled Black Record blaming the Germans for a record of barbarism going back to the era of the Roman Empire . |
| 8 | Once Ranulf had gone , Athelstan sat on the altar steps , his mind going back to the corpses he had seen : Vechey 's lying cold amongst those dreadful heads on the tower gate of London Bridge ; Brampton 's sheathed in dirty canvas in the death house of St Mary Le Bow ; Springall 's lying alone under its leather covering in the great four poster bed in his mansion . |
| 9 | The mess tin went back into the cupboard . |
| 10 | The superintendent went back to the shop-floor and David looked at Rachel . |
| 11 | So Gloria and Dot went back down the area steps to their room , leaving the sunshine behind . |
| 12 | My mind went back to the scene in that bedroom and the sliding doors to the paved patio . |
| 13 | The Business Plan goes back with the letter because they will require a copy of the business plan so that they when they see you at three , six , twelve and eighteen months |
| 14 | Robbie spent the afternoon as Fen had suggested , and when she alighted from the stifling , ancient bus crowded with country folk , she felt in no mood to go back to the boat . |
| 15 | This however is unlikely , and that the idea of decorating a metope with a figured scene goes back to the beginning of the Doric order is shown by the painted terracotta examples of the seventh century ( above , p. 13 ) . |
| 16 | In a separation section , the sludge is discharged , the clean sand going back into the system , so that the process of filtration is continuous and the " filter " is self-cleaning . |
| 17 | Sharks of essentially modern type go back to the Jurassic . |
| 18 | Then the big bearded hijacker went back into the Captain 's cabin . |
| 19 | Isabel 's gaze went back to the crumbling keep . |
| 20 | They had their tea , then Boy went back into the living room to watch the breakfast television , which was sport , and then the phone rang . |
| 21 | Although they were public servants answerable to the Home Secretary , the Prison Commissioners had a separate existence going back to the reforms of the late Nineteenth Century . |
| 22 | In recognising that fact , as well as the reality that this package can not be amended or the entire community ratification process goes back into the melting pot , it was the pressure point likely to offer the greatest temptation to the Tory anti-Maastricht brigade . |
| 23 | God 's claim to the firstborn goes back to the night of the Passover ( Exodus 12 ) . |
| 24 | The farm sets a good example in other ways too … branches pruned from the trees are shredded so the goodness goes back into the soil . |
| 25 | They had turned as if by common consent to go back into the cottage when the lights of a car , driven fast , came over the southern rise of the road . |
| 26 | It roots lay far back , in the rise of Prussia to the position of leading power in Germany , but there is no need to go back beyond the Congress of Berlin . |
| 27 | For them , he said , there was a need to go back to the basics of spelling , grammar , punctuation and arithmetic . |
| 28 | There was no need to go back to the shop . |
| 29 | The present system may not be perfect but it has worked pretty well and would be capable of improvement and adjustment without the need to go back to the drawing board . ’ |
| 30 | And what they do , is they give them a couple of choices of bo , you know , hip joints to go for and the guy decides , the surgeon decides , does his job and then the kit goes back to the manufacturer again and then when the , another hospital orders it they make up a , another kit . |