Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] back [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have a special position in that the oldest regiment in the British Army is the Honourable Artillery Company , which traces its history back to 1537 , whereas the oldest regular units go back only to the middle of the 17th century . |
| 2 | Although historic links between the two countries go back long before the days when the French were sending troops to help the Jacobite rebellions , the French presence in Scotland remains relatively small . |
| 3 | But even in this tranquil part of England many of the ‘ open ’ villages had a variety of local crafts , distributive trades and small industries , whose origins go back well into the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | A large part of their earnings went back again to the USA for investment ; as a result they had to pay Belpan National Bank 's transfer charges twice . |
| 5 | One mother of two small children arrives back later in the afternoon looking ashen . |
| 6 | The Chinese cosmology based on li and ch'i goes back only to the Neo-Confucian movement of the Sung dynasty ( AD 960–1279 ) , a conceptual revolution which can itself be understood in Kuhnian terms as a response to the breakdown of an older paradigm . |