Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [v-ing] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Links between sentences can to some extent be made explicit in a similar way , by using connectives such as therefore , thus , on the other hand , or words referring back to previous sentence ( Turner , 1973 ) . |
| 2 | Ficulle is a small town with ancient origins , which still retains some of its medieval walls and watchtowers dating back to the 13th century . |
| 3 | Milton 's God was Empson 's last book , in his lifetime , though when he died he was collecting at least three others : Using Biography ( 1984 ) , on Marvell , Dryden , Fielding , Yeats , Eliot and Joyce ; Essays on Shakespeare ( 1986 ) ; and a book of Renaissance essays , as well as a massive ragbag ( as he called it ) of papers and reviews dating back to the 1920s which , when it posthumously appeared as Argufying ( 1987 ) , was rapidly seen by many to be the finest critical miscellany in the language . |
| 4 | Rights and properties going back to a remote and undocumented past appeared to him to have a sanction which no later enactment — not even by the pope — could alter . |
| 5 | The exquisite decor is tasteful and includes many antiques and paintings dating back to the original period . |
| 6 | The Audencia Nacional ( National High Court ) on Oct. 11 , 1989 , sentenced ETA members José Antonio López Ruiz and José Miguel Latasa Guetaria " Fermín " to 42 years ' imprisonment each , and two others to 36 and 29 years , for attacks and murders dating back to 1984 . |
| 7 | It was peaceful more than frenetic , a mirage of slow dawns and sunsets going back to the fluted point people : humbling . |
| 8 | As it turned out , it managed to gain 60% acceptances , but while the actual fight was brief , it was bitter , with Dowty accusing TI of dubious accounting practices and TI throwing back aspersions of weak management . |
| 9 | Its exact details can hardly be measured , for the official statistics , such as they were then , fail to capture all the movements of men and women within countries or even between states : the rural exodus towards the cities , the migration between regions and from town to town , the crossing of oceans and the penetration of frontier zones , the flux of men and women moving back and forth in ways even more difficult to specify . |
| 10 | Our limited perception of time has difficulty in imagining events and cycles dating back just a hundred years , yet archaeologists have germinated and grown wheat from grains four thousand years old , discovered in the tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs . |