Example sentences of "go [adv prt] to the old [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going back to the old trams . |
| 2 | I understand that it is possible , even at this late stage , that the review itself could be overturned by the refusal of France to agree the new allocation of seats and we 've already had an exchange on that , Mr Deputy Speaker , which indicates that whatever we decide today might actually be overthrown and overturned completely by the inability of the French to ratify their part of the arrangement , er the minister referred to it as a massive inconvenience , I suggest that if we have to resort to going back to the old boundaries to fight these elections and indeed the problems that that will cause for the selection of candidates as well , that that will be one of the greatest understatements that even this house has heard . |
| 3 | … Trouble with going back to the old days , the [ agency ] was more or less a family concern . |
| 4 | But see we 're going back to the old seasons now . |
| 5 | But Tory schools minister Michael Fallon , MP for Darlington hit back : ‘ No one wants to go back to the old days of councillors running hospitals , of Nupe deciding whether or not your operations should be carried out . ’ |
| 6 | But to go back to the old ways ‘ would be a colossal mistake , ’ he declared . |
| 7 | Nevertheless you also feel pressure on you to go back to the old ways . |
| 8 | After the luxury of labour-saving devices it is just too tedious to go back to the old ways . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Do not go back to the old gods . ’ |
| 11 | I wondered if people would ever go back to the old ways . |
| 12 | Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ? |
| 13 | ‘ We 've gone back to the old gods , in defiance to the Church . ’ |
| 14 | And it 's gone back to the old prices . |
| 15 | And that in itself was a form of antiquity you know , it it it is it went back to the old days you see . |