Example sentences of "[noun pl] go back to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his eyes went back to the Workshops and he frowned and sought for the right thing to say . |
| 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 | When engineers go back to the drawing board and create a new design , they do not necessarily throw away the ideas from the old design . |
| 4 | Its origins go back to the rediscovery of perspective in the Renaissance , and then to the architect 's drawings of the eighteenth century . |
| 5 | As a matter of principle , the bank in such circumstances should not be entitled to rely on the transaction and this is the view which has been taken by a series of authorities going back to the beginning of this century . |
| 6 | Despite the fact that spiders are all over the place in Dostoevsky , not just in Svidrigailov 's dirty bathhouse vision of Eternity , and that urban potted plants go back to the beginning in Poor People , we are here firmly inside Crime and Punishment in its abandoned first-person narrative form ( ‘ I am on trial and will tell all ’ ) : Petersburg evenings and their hanging summer light , noises from below , happy workmen , blessed ‘ living life ’ elsewhere , a lonely man in pain passing through gates , over thresholds , slipping up and down staircases , the buzzing By of Raskolnikov 's dream and his awakening , intense time-consciousness alternating with time-oblivion . |
| 7 | With Sophie back behind much stronger bars , the intrepid PCs went back to the school yesterday to claim their reward chocolate coins . |
| 8 | She called them girls but many were women whose working days went back to the Utility dresses and khaki battle-dress . |
| 9 | Would you believe it — a false start and the man with the red flag is there to make sure all the eggs go back to the line . |
| 10 | The retirement of Sergeant Merrey marked the end of another era — not only the departure of a friend and character , but the last of a long line of School Sergeants going back to the appointment of Sgt. Sash in 1888 . |
| 11 | Before the patients go back to the ward , they will pat their faces back into place and often ask for reassurance that no-one will be told . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Others , being anciently established , also have manuscript materials going back to the days of their foundation in the Middle Ages or the Tudor period . |
| 14 | It has , of course , been a problem with star conductors going back to the time of Nikisch that the conductor can come to seem more charismatic than the music he is conducting . |
| 15 | It was a culmination of measures going back to the middle of the nineteenth century , but more particularly government experience since the 1890s. and above all , a shift in attitudes towards State-provided housing . |
| 16 | These are abused young children going back to a parent and troubled adolescents returning home from residential care . |
| 17 | The children went back to the rocks and the two men never referred to them again . |
| 18 | Last year the police went back to the Baroness 's former home to look in vain for hidden gold bars . |
| 19 | Rather than launch into these discussions with yet another set of theories , the aim of teaching in the New Testament department is to help students to go back to the verses and passages themselves for new insights and new understanding . |
| 20 | It has records going back to the reign of Henry II in about 1165 . |
| 21 | Even Nutty could see what an apathetic beast he was , and her heart contracted suddenly at the thought of their four stupid old horses going back to the knacker 's . |
| 22 | Trent 's thoughts went back to the photograph he had found on Don Roberto 's piano . |
| 23 | They took turns to go back to a hotel to sleep , and came back to take their places on watch and yell ‘ Pamella ! |
| 24 | As the ages passed , a few land mammals , the distant ancestors of today 's whales and dolphins went back to the sea , and gradually changed shape as they adapted to an underwater environment . |
| 25 | Booth 's survey also had an influence on a similar movement in the United States , though its roots go back to the middle of the nineteenth century when a number of small surveys on the " dangerous classes " were undertaken . |
| 26 | , whose science policy roots go back to the presidency of , retorts : ‘ Paternity is always to prove ’ . |
| 27 | Exactly why is unclear as the origins of these vineyards go back to the days of the Knights Templars . |
| 28 | Even more drastic intervention was to take place in China ; its roots went back to the control of the Chinese government 's revenue by foreign supervision of the Customs from 1858 onwards . |