Example sentences of "stretch back into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seemed to stretch back into the hillside as if they might , at some stage , cease to become manmade buildings of stone and wood and brick and become ancient caves ; tunnels that would penetrate deep into the earth 's core . |
| 2 | To begin with , there was the accumulated pre-war experience , which stretched back into the nineteenth century , of labour being the cheap factor of production — an attitude reflected in the slow development of cost-accounting in Britain . |
| 3 | The Old Testament kings had been initiated with unction ; and in any case the Carolingians , unlike their Merovingian predecessors amongst the Franks , could not depend for their sacrality upon a long royal genealogy stretching back into the past . |
| 4 | With a sniff a hyaena can perceive not only the here and now but , simultaneously , a whole series of events stretching back into the past . |
| 5 | Everyone round the table listens intently to the story — the Chases , the Waylands , the Chyldes , the Kessels , the Bernsteins , Charles Aught , Luci Hayter , Rayner Keat , and Francis Fairlie who is still hesitating about what life to commit himself to — a great audience stretching back into the dim recesses of the room , a densely cultivated field growing faces . |