Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er if you want to go back to the same people . |
| 2 | A magnificent bookplate of 1899 with , on the male side ( left in picture ) , twelve quarterings , some of which appear to go back to the 13th century . |
| 3 | I think , John , I want to come back to the basic one , and that is , as a customer , if you 're handed what you think is an extended warranty to cover you for all sorts of things erm then you 're very disappointed if you find that most of the things that are going to go wrong with your car are excluded . |
| 4 | Scots Wha Hae , which some may claim is another emotional dirge , has tremendous credentials ( tune going back to the 14th century and words by our national bard ) . |
| 5 | She says it 's when they get released back to the wild that it 's best . |
| 6 | She says it 's when they get released back to the wild that it 's best . |
| 7 | ‘ I keep coming back to the same point , John . |
| 8 | His concerns are moral and religious , and in certain respects , therefore , although they appear to be out of line with the literary culture of Sidonius and his sixth-century followers , they do look back to the moral response which met the first wave of the barbarian invasions . |
| 9 | And the explanations they offer go back to the social wholes which form and constrain individual people . |
| 10 | Popular American poetry of the period encouraged not only ‘ the coming together of East and West ’ , but also Vachel Lindsay 's attempts ‘ to carry … vaudeville form back towards the old Greek precedent of the half-chanted lyric ’ . |
| 11 | Right , and the background to that of course is , for those of you who may not know , Bullett was I suppose a more junior person in the State Department , when he went to Europe with Woodrow Wilson in nineteen eighteen , and nineteen whenever it was for a peace conference , and Bullett was the only one of the American delegation who resigned and confronted Wilson and said , look , you 've gone back on the fourteen points , you 're not doing what you said you would do . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've gone back to the old gods , in defiance to the Church . ’ |
| 13 | The big improvement with the council tax is that we 've gone back to the old system which is 100% rebates for those classified on low income . |
| 14 | Both require standing back from the day-to-day running of the organisation and examining the wider picture . |
| 15 | ‘ It is important for everyone to roll up their sleeves and fight to get back on the winning trail . ’ |
| 16 | We have to go back to the first quarter of 1986 to see such a low figure for construction output per person in the past decade . |
| 17 | To identify classes you have to go back to the intentional properties of individuals — to the judgments , desires and aspirations which are essential to explaining what they then do in the class struggle . |
| 18 | When they reach an obstacle , such as the sharks , they have to go back to the previous question . |
| 19 | ( In order to analyse this , we need to go back to the general model with . ) |
| 20 | We need to go back to the old ways : I mean , think of it , it was in the Andes that corn was improved , that the potato was developed . |
| 21 | De Gaulle 's strident language suggested a fundamentally unsympathetic attitude towards the pieds noirs — an attitude which some have traced back to the latter 's wartime Vichyism , others to the General 's aversion for Mediterranean temperaments or to his incomprehension of the pieds noirs ' " tortured double identity — half French , half Algerian " . |
| 22 | I have come back to the international scene with a fierce rival in Phil Tufnell , with Ian Salisbury breathing down our necks and Hampshire 's young Sean Udal making great strides every season . |
| 23 | We have to look back to the first quarter of 1988 to see a time when construction output was so low . |
| 24 | Charles and Maurice Saatchi have stepped back from the top executive roles and have recruited Frenchman Robert Louis-Dreyfus as chief executive . |
| 25 | Charles and Maurice Saatchi have stepped back from the top executive roles and have recruited Frenchman Robert Louis-Dreyfus as chief executive . |
| 26 | He pointed to experiments in the process two and a half centuries before ( and could , in fact , have gone back to the fifteenth century ) . |
| 27 | ‘ We need to get back towards the Victorian days of discipline ’ says Dr Boyson in one of his attacks on ‘ permissiveness ’ , and he is certainly not alone among Tory fundamentalists in fondly remembering the glories of empire , child labour and workhouse in Queen Victoria 's reign . |
| 28 | It will give us the lift we need to get back to the Premier League . ’ |
| 29 | Anyway , we need to get back to the other world . ’ |