Example sentences of "goes back a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ringwood 's history with dogs goes back a bit further . |
| 2 | We 're walking past this telly shop when Marie suddenly stops and goes back a couple of steps . |
| 3 | This goes back a generation , to when Maltese marriage customs were very strictly observed . |
| 4 | David must be the best company manager in the business , and our friendship goes back a decade or more . |
| 5 | But he goes back a lot further — writing key speeches in Number Ten during the Heath government two decades ago . |
| 6 | So the the Yes it 's been going back a the the name , the firm in that sense I think goes back a lot of years . |
| 7 | His protest , apparently , goes back a lot further , to the Synod of Whitby when , according to him , the Celtic Christian Church was sold down the river to Rome . ’ |