Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fine church of St Wilfrid dates back to the 12th century , although there is mention of a church in the Domesday Book . |
| 2 | The history of this Fellowship in Orkney goes back to the early 1980s … |
| 3 | From near Alport Low , Hern Clough leads down to the tranquil hollow of Grains in the Water , a magical spot in a wide bowl of surrounding hills . |
| 4 | Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |
| 5 | At a time when plans for global communications seem to rest on the semantics of international standards , Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |
| 6 | But in November 1950 the Chinese sent some 250 000 " volunteers " across the Yalu , and the war swung back in favour of the North Koreans and their allies as they drove the UN forces back to the 38th parallel . |
| 7 | Short gets off to a bad start |
| 8 | The Causey Mounth dates back to the 12th century , when it was first established as a drover 's road . |
| 9 | The original building of the Hotel Lapershoek dates back to the early 20th century when it was a grand stately home , and it has since been thoughtfully converted in to a very comfortable four star hotel . |
| 10 | Even if Hanson holds on to the British end of the ARC operation , it still has a long list of ConsGold assets to offload including : |
| 11 | Don Johnson holds on to a chic Melanie Griffith ( above ) |
| 12 | BEN settles down to a romantic candle-lit dinner with JACQUI , JACQUI 's friend FIONA , KEREN , KEREN 's friend SALLY , and SARAH . |
| 13 | BEN settles down to a romantic candle-lit dinner with JACQUI , JACQUI 's friend FIONA , KEREN , KEREN 's friend SALLY , and SARAH . |
| 14 | Ronnie Biggs harks back to a bygone age . |
| 15 | The Sephardic community in Belgrade dates back to the early sixteenth century and was well established in the commercial life of the city . |
| 16 | ‘ The concept of TQM dates back to the postwar period when a tried to persuade corporate heads that business should become service driven . ’ |
| 17 | Gilly gets off to a bad start in life by having a mother who deserts her when she is only three years old but her problems since then are all of her own making . |
| 18 | Having depicted the palace not just as a multitude of busy people and face-to-face relationships , but as an arrangement ( dispositio ) , an apparatus to be efficiently designed and maintained , Hincmar moves on to a second institution , the assembly . |
| 19 | The parish church of St Michael dates back to the 13th century . |
| 20 | Two miles further on , the A.890 from Loch Carron comes down to an improved junction . |