Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] back [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The famous passage about the madeleine , the little cake whose associations call back the forgotten scenes of the narrator 's childhood , would have caused the Hartleian in Wordsworth to applaud . |
| 2 | The literature on the professions goes back a long way , but seems to have reached a peak in the 1960s and 1970s ( see , for example , Etzioni 1969 ; Jackson 1970 ) , perhaps because the professions were at an apogee of esteem at that point , before the attacks of Illich ( 1977 ) and others who , like Shaw many years before , accused them of establishing a ‘ radical monopoly ’ in the name of meeting people 's ‘ needs ’ . |
| 3 | Collective self-help and co-operative ways of tackling problems go back a long way . |
| 4 | Make sure the brushes go back the right way up — match them with the side you have not yet removed . |
| 5 | He is the proud holder of the Gold P.O.W.N. medal ( Polish Fighting Organisation for Independence ) after blowing up railway bridges , cutting down telephone lines and destroying all forms of communications to hold back the German advance . |
| 6 | It was written by Moshe Aumann of the Israel Academic Committee on the Middle East and its 24 pages are sprinkled with quotations stretching back a hundred years — from Mark Twain and Lamartine to Lord Milner and the 1937 Palestine Royal Commission — all of which assert that Palestine was a land of brigandage , destitution and desert before the mass immigration of Jews in the late 1930s . |
| 7 | The need to catch whales goes back a thousand years or more in Japanese history . |
| 8 | The sluice gates holding back a bottomless reservoir of blood are creaking open , spattering the country with thick , viscous dollops . |
| 9 | The ambulance arriving at the gates of the hospital , two men heaving back the great iron gates . |
| 10 | The arch-rivals go back a long way . |
| 11 | Repeated attempts to cut back the global total of public spending have placed an increased emphasis on control of public spending . |
| 12 | The Siege of Praag lasted throughout the spring and summer , during which time the brave defenders held back the greater part of the Chaos forces . |
| 13 | Just as the early European explorers of the North Atlantic would bring back the tusks of narwhals and pass them off as the horns of unicorns , so would the early Arabian and Indian sailors bring back the massive bones of the Cassowary as evidence of the giant " roc " of the Sinbad sagas , or the Garuda bird of Hindu mythology , which is today the symbol of Indonesia 's national airline . |
| 14 | In the intervening time , he would become a changed man , as would many who set out with such high hopes to win back the holy earth of Outremer . |
| 15 | Links with Group marine coatings go back a long way . |
| 16 | Although ‘ systematization ’ struck many of its critics in the West in 1988–89 as an insane novelty , in fact its roots went back a long way . |