Example sentences of "[noun] go back a " in BNC.
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| 1 | David must be the best company manager in the business , and our friendship goes back a decade or more . |
| 2 | My mind went back a couple of months to when Charlie 'd asked me if I 'd like to make a bit on the side . |
| 3 | Patrick Kelly and Frederick Flowers went back a long way . |
| 4 | Slazenger and sport go back a long way but did you know that they also have a great sports toiletries range ? |
| 5 | ‘ Ringwood 's history with dogs goes back a bit further . |
| 6 | The literature on the professions goes back a long way , but seems to have reached a peak in the 1960s and 1970s ( see , for example , Etzioni 1969 ; Jackson 1970 ) , perhaps because the professions were at an apogee of esteem at that point , before the attacks of Illich ( 1977 ) and others who , like Shaw many years before , accused them of establishing a ‘ radical monopoly ’ in the name of meeting people 's ‘ needs ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’ |
| 8 | But , as we have evidence going back a number of years the reactor is in such poor condition that there is no way they could safely operate the current requirement of the modern government standard . |
| 9 | Collective self-help and co-operative ways of tackling problems go back a long way . |
| 10 | His memories go back a long , long way . ’ |
| 11 | He and Ockrent go back a long way — to a jointly written screenplay for Paul MacCartney , which ‘ never saw the light of day — a damn shame , because it was a lot better than Broad Street . |
| 12 | Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way . |
| 13 | Iron working in the area goes back a long way . |
| 14 | After all , his links to Christian democracy went back a long way . |
| 15 | However , social historians say couples having non-penetrative sex goes back a long way . |
| 16 | This awareness goes back a long time , and to Lace it we need to leave the field of folklore and go back into the realms of ancient philosophy . |
| 17 | ‘ I can remember phone numbers , decks of cards , all the Olympic medal-winners going back a century but I could n't remember the right day on which to turn up — at least I was n't a week late . ’ |
| 18 | The roots of his disciplinarianism go back a long way . |
| 19 | The assumptions behind this unfortunate word go back a long way . |
| 20 | The need to catch whales goes back a thousand years or more in Japanese history . |
| 21 | DUTY AND DEFINITION Debates about the accountant 's duty of care go back a century . |
| 22 | Rudston 's history goes back a very long way to Neolithic times and it is believed to be the oldest inhabited village in England . |
| 23 | The arch-rivals go back a long way . |
| 24 | ‘ His family goes back a long way . ’ |
| 25 | For BP , involvement in the region goes back a long way . |
| 26 | The roots of the UK 's industrial decline go back a long way , certainly more than a century . |
| 27 | Links with Group marine coatings go back a long way . |
| 28 | Although ‘ systematization ’ struck many of its critics in the West in 1988–89 as an insane novelty , in fact its roots went back a long way . |