Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] back [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the biggest cities dated back to the Tokugawa period . |
| 2 | Perhaps the biggest problem with the Severin thesis is that recent work in Mesoamerican archaeology , and the deciphering of Mayan hieroglyphic codes , make it clear that the classic Mayan civilisation ( AD300 to AD900 ) had precursors going back to the Olmecs in 1000BC and earlier . |
| 3 | Bearing in mind the figures and the fact that French farmers regularly burn lorry loads of English lamb and Italian grapes with complete impunity and that it is not possible for an English lorry firm to go to Germany and to load up with goods to bring back to the United Kingdom , should not the European Community try to walk before it tries to run ? |
| 4 | if the war was going badly for NATO , and the USSR was already using nuclear weapons , the West would turn to the cruise missiles to strike back at the Warsaw Pact . |
| 5 | Ablaze with brightly hued foliage , rolling hills , jagged cliffs and tiny fishing villages , this regions harks back to the Mother Country , with the added attraction of all the diversity that America can offer . |
| 6 | Although the sums remitted back from the US were much lower than expected , and continuing high taxation rates caused a drain on domestic box office receipts , no attempt was made to rein in film budgets . |
| 7 | Dexel is in the bizarre position of exporting granules across thousands of miles , only for some of the end products to arrive back in the UK . |
| 8 | Julia was so interested in the cross-examination that she almost disobeyed Anthony 's instructions to go back to the Campo San Maurizio for lunch and spend the afternoon in bed , but , remembering how weak she had felt the previous evening , she did as he said . |
| 9 | It had taken them ages to get back from the Lock and now the evening was drawing in . |
| 10 | One of the top ANC men came back from the Dar Es Salaam talks and told us , ‘ I am more than ever convinced that violence is not the way . |
| 11 | The memoirs of four men sitting back in The Garrick , perhaps . |
| 12 | The teams will again parade through the city with a police escort back to the Albert Dock , before returning to the Blundellsands Hotel in Crosby for the evening awards party . |
| 13 | As crowds headed back into the West End after a 1,000lb IRA bomb was defused , the Met 's Commissioner-in-waiting Paul Condon said normal daily life must go on . |
| 14 | Attempts to encourage otters to come back to the River Thames are being aided by the building of a man-made home for them . |
| 15 | His thoughts drifted back to the Connons . |
| 16 | Without her realising it , Fabia 's thoughts drifted back to the Gloucestershire home she shared with her parents in the village of Hawk Lacey . |
| 17 | The minutely porous external surface is covered with irregular bumps. number of species of this genus have been reported from Cretaceous rocks , and related genera occur back to the Triassic . |