Example sentences of "[noun sg] go back to 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 superintendent went back to the shop-floor and David looked at Rachel . |
| 10 | My mind went back to the scene in that bedroom and the sliding doors to the paved patio . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | Sharks of essentially modern type go back to the Jurassic . |
| 14 | Isabel 's gaze went back to the crumbling keep . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | God 's claim to the firstborn goes back to the night of the Passover ( Exodus 12 ) . |
| 17 | For them , he said , there was a need to go back to the basics of spelling , grammar , punctuation and arithmetic . |
| 18 | There was no need to go back to the shop . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And I assure you she would have every right to go back to the shop and say look these tights are not fit for their purpose . |
| 22 | In the first three months , three thousand miles , that does n't tend to happen in fairness erm and something like that would come up erm within that time scale , so , yes , I mean they have the right to go back to the dealer and I must admit in my overall view of the motor trade these days they do they are trying harder and harder to look after their customers because obviously they 're in business like everybody else , they know that their policy holders are covered by the Sale of Goods Act merchantable quality , erm and so they realize that if these things happen then they will endeavour to put the situation right . |
| 23 | The ILEA covered the area of the former LCC and thus ensured a continuity going back to the establishment of the London School Board in 1870 ( Maclure 1988 : 110 — 11 ) . |
| 24 | The logical crisis went back to the time when he first started to read philosophy as an undergraduate and related to his reading of the English Idealist philosophers , as well as to his return ( for the purposes of passing his exams , and later as a tutor ) to the English empiricists of the eighteenth century . |
| 25 | They strolled through Paris together , after her husband went back to the front . |
| 26 | The origins of Sudan 's severe debt crisis go back to the policies pursued from the early 1970s onwards . |
| 27 | As she did so , Greg 's eye went back to the letter on the dressing-table . |
| 28 | This change of mood was gradual , but the germs of militancy within the deaf community go back to the war years , although the BDDA leadership responded to it only slowly . |
| 29 | Lawrence picked up the handset and radioed into central headquarters , asking for a policeman to go back to the club . |
| 30 | Of course , the concept of a liberal education goes back to the Greeks , and Newman 's lectures and books were only one more interpretation of an idea which as Rothblatt ( 1976 ) clearly shows has demonstrated a remarkable adaptability and longevity . |