Example sentences of "go back to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But behind him there was a large array of saints , customs , observances , and claims of one kind or another going back to a remote past . |
| 2 | Once you have taken silk there is no going back to a junior s practice . |
| 3 | ‘ In no way are we going back to a 1979-80 recession . |
| 4 | Darling — and I 'm sure this wo n't be inopportune — do n't worry about me , because I 'm really quite a ‘ happy warrior ’ ; it was the thought of leaving you , and the fact that you were going back to a hard grind , which prompted my outpourings . |
| 5 | , how did you did you find it , going back to a heavy engineering plant like after having been at for a while ? |
| 6 | Now they 're going back to a sensitive area . |
| 7 | Now they 're going back to a sensitive area . |
| 8 | Going back to a big house and long lawns , Jen ? said Michael Morrissey 's eyes last week . |
| 9 | I do not mean being reactionary , simply going back to a past state of affairs , I mean reaction as the antithesis of action . |
| 10 | It 's not much fun , you 're chained to the wall — it 's like going back to a medieval library . |
| 11 | Talk is of household refuse trains going back to the moth-balled Gobowen to Nanbrynmawr line — from Manchester . |
| 12 | We were able to confirm the histories of families going back to the 19th century . |
| 13 | Going back to the apparent contradiction between this chapter and chapter 1 , we must consider this question of diachronism more carefully . |
| 14 | Charles of Blois was the candidate favoured by Philip VI , and Edward accordingly supported Montfort , offering him not only military assistance but also the earldom of Richmond , with which the Breton ducal family had a connection going back to the Norman Conquest . |
| 15 | It was peaceful more than frenetic , a mirage of slow dawns and sunsets going back to the fluted point people : humbling . |
| 16 | Hughes , aged29 , has a remarkable record going back to the first women 's World Championships in 1980 including a world gold in 1986 , world bronze in 1987 and two European titles . |
| 17 | The popes , as bishops of Rome , had a " genealogy " going back to the first pope , the apostle Peter . |
| 18 | Now , going back to the first time Mahoney was shot . |
| 19 | Channel 4 's comedy department has at last found the right format for a cabaret star — by going back to the innocent childhood of TV comedy . |
| 20 | Going back to the early thoughts of the RHA on the matter in the mid-1970s , it had been recognized that the reduction in the hospital populations meant that there would be competition for any savings between the hospitals themselves and district services . |
| 21 | Going , going back to the early days you mentioned that erm the dividend , the divi was quite important . |
| 22 | Going back to the six months one erm where you 've fifteen thousand |
| 23 | The combination of bishopric and monastery was one of the main results of the tenth-century monastic revival , and it had tenuous threads going back to the seventh century . |
| 24 | Lanfranc could only hope that the papal Curia would come to recognize the substantial strength of this papally inspired practice of primacy going back to the seventh century . |
| 25 | Birmingham had a tradition going back to the inter-war period for ‘ tough ’ and ‘ realistic ’ empirical research on the Soviet economy , which was unique among British universities . |
| 26 | It says , everything they 're doing , it says , is going back to the eighteenth century , when you hear about these Kath Catherine Cookson days , working for pennies and you ca n't get educated |
| 27 | But going back to the 1944 triptych , you called it a base for the Crucifixion . |
| 28 | Apparently people are even going back to the fifties contraceptives ! |
| 29 | ‘ I could try going back to the Steering Committee ’ he said ‘ and simply tell them what 's happened . |
| 30 | KEVIN McGARRITY is going back to the British Vauxhall Lotus championship — and back to the team he quit midway through last season . |