Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes back to the major earthquake , magnitude 7 on the Richter scale , which rocked Greece in February 1981 . |
| 2 | The story goes back to Descartes . |
| 3 | The story goes back to Mnaseas , a writer of the second half of the second century B.C. ( c . |
| 4 | The base goes back to the RAFin SEptember 94. it 's not yet known what will be done with the land but many local people hope it 'll be used the upper H |
| 5 | Stress-free Duchess goes back to work |
| 6 | Its heritage goes back to when ‘ The Witan ’ , or the council of the Saxon kings , established the significance of Witney when they chose the then village as a meeting place in the 10th. and 11th. centuries . |
| 7 | The origin of the synagogue goes back to the Babylonian period . |
| 8 | There is nothing what actually says , only when that cheque goes back to the bank , there 's nothing anywhere apart from the bank who says that cheque is actually made out to . |
| 9 | When you 've finished the job , the bit goes back in its place , the carrying case is clipped shut , and it 's ready for next time . |
| 10 | Fahey , whose international experience goes back to the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 , when he lost the bronze medal in a jump-off , qualified for last year 's World Cup Final , but decided his horse was not then ready for it . |
| 11 | In other words , I mean I 'm retired and I mean the point is that my erm experience goes back into the er into the dark ages I can almost say because in these days , you probably realise , I mean if anybody buys a video you do n't ask you do n't look for the book of instructions you ask about a five year old kiddy how to programme it ! |
| 12 | ‘ And all his money goes back to his wife . ’ |
| 13 | The it in the second sentence refers back to the ball . |
| 14 | Much of the Bible 's teaching goes back to the way we are made ; it goes back to creation itself . |
| 15 | When they reached the destination the driver looks back in horror and says the poodle has disgraced itself . |
| 16 | Babur looks back over his shoulder . |
| 17 | The present looks back at some great figure of an earlier century and wonders , Was he on our side ? |
| 18 | Wilcock looks back on it as a ‘ very heavy issue ’ . |
| 19 | Lyndhurst West looks back at COMDEX , and decides what 's hot , and what 's not in Coming our way . |
| 20 | Then his mind drifts back to more personal matters . |
| 21 | That means the car goes back on . |
| 22 | The very important interest JCI has in the diamond industry goes back to the days when Barney Barnato , together with Cecil Rhodes played an important role in the establishment of De Beers in Kimberley . |
| 23 | A front-page EXCLUSIVE in the Sunday People — A monster goes back to his lair : RETURN OF THE FOX — in which the front-page photograph showed Fairley accompanied by police officers ‘ back at this lair , showing police the scene of one of his evil deeds ’ . |
| 24 | Evidence of ritual burial goes back at least to Neanderthal man and possibly even earlier . |
| 25 | For most of us the mental picture of an experiment goes back to school laboratories . |
| 26 | My mind goes back to the original fifteen-year Hospital Plan , published in January 1962 . |
| 27 | There are days when I sit down and my mind goes back to prison , when I 'd be looking out the window , thinking , I wish I was out there , you know , doing something . |
| 28 | In preparing to start my personal campaign for 1991 , my mind goes back to Peachtree in Atlanta in August 1989 . |
| 29 | The search goes back to Moscow for the truth about Wallenberg : This Sunday leaders of Sweden 's Raoul Wallenberg Society arrive in Moscow for meetings with Soviet officials . |
| 30 | ‘ My love of English football goes back to 1973 when I was with Leigh . |