Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to the seventeenth century " in BNC.

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1 Looking back to the seventeenth century , or forward to the late twentieth century .
2 I paid a Hackney second-hand dealer £100 a few years ago for seven black plastic bags of documents dating back to the seventeenth century — the contents of tin trunks removed from the basement of a firm of solicitors .
3 However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 .
4 The tradition of literacy in the army goes back to the seventeenth century and the Civil War , which was fought with texts and pamphlets as much as with weapons , and beyond to the Reformation , and beyond that again to the mediaeval orders of chivalry such as the Knights Templar .
5 The precedents for this kind of poem go back to the seventeenth century , and one could usefully look at Pope 's Windsor Forest or Dyer 's Grongar Hill .
6 The family Olive Saunderson married into had a story to equal her own , also stretching back to the seventeenth century when Zachariah Field left Yorkshire to settle in Massachusetts as a yeoman farmer Norman Field 's father was born there in 1831 .
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