Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb -s] back [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The present looks back at some great figure of an earlier century and wonders , Was he on our side ? |
| 2 | The building dates back to 1510 and , whilst it has been sympathetically modernised , it retains much of its original character . |
| 3 | The sun comes back on that day . |
| 4 | Alka-Seltzer , Andrews Answer , Beecham Resolve , Boots Headache and Indegestion Relief and Superdrug Paracetamol Seltzer were all found to ease a person 's suffering until the body gets back to normal . |
| 5 | I suppose the expression rolls off the tongue — the three As — and , of course , the meeting goes back over one hundred years . |
| 6 | I must just run up to the Casa to make sure the lorry comes back for another load . |
| 7 | Wenger ( 1984 ) identified that the death of a sibling or friends may be harder to get over than the death of a spouse , perhaps because the longevity of the relationship goes back to earliest years . |
| 8 | The lower half of the tower dates back to Saxon times . |
| 9 | The idea dates back to 1881 . |
| 10 | The brain drifts back to full consciousness now that there is a vague hint of light spreading across the eastern sky . |
| 11 | The history goes back to 1938 , when Mexico took over US and British oil interests and reached a peak in 1975 ; eighty-three acts of expropriation of foreign firms in twenty-eight countries ( UNCTC , 1988a : table XIX-I ) . |
| 12 | The assumption that aborigines had no right to the land dates back to 1770 when James Cook — Captain Cook , the explorer of much of the Pacific — claimed Australia on behalf of George III . |
| 13 | First of all Kuwait as a country goes back to seventeen fifty . |