Example sentences of "and [vb -s] back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This central role for private property has a long history in European thought and goes back to the eighteenth-century notion of the social contract . |
| 2 | The car leaps forward , tears between two lorries and lurches back into the middle lane . |
| 3 | Then he drags his victim into the bushes or the trees , kills and cuts back to the other road and the car and makes his getaway . |
| 4 | But Liza ( with a ‘ Z ’ ) kicked the bad habits today her only addictions are cigarettes and caffeine and gets back into the old song-and-dance routine for Stepping Out , released on CIC Video on March 20 . |
| 5 | We can trace the current state of our knowledge about village origins and changes back to the 1940s . |
| 6 | The house itself is , not surprisingly , a little younger and dates back to the 16th century when it was owned by the great-great-aunt of President George Washington . |