Example sentences of "[noun pl] going back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why should the people of Lambeth be subjected to savage bills because their local authority fails to collect rents , the community charge , and even outstanding rates arrears going back over many years ? |
| 2 | He had the order books going back for years and years and he was able to show me . |
| 3 | Claudine did n't seem to know that this was a cruel dig at Jenna ; she only appeared to note the word ‘ beautiful ’ , and with that her interest faded , her eyes going back to Alain . |
| 4 | ‘ But only one redhead , ’ firmly stated the old lady , her eyes going back to Theda 's flaming crown , which she had dragged into a knot on top of her head and then allowed to fall behind . |
| 5 | At this point in the narrative we need to turn to the remarkable Register concerning the imperial question ( Regestum super negotio Romani imperii or RNI ) , a secret register opened by the papal curia between August and September 1199 , but containing entries going back to 3 May . |
| 6 | Perhaps the biggest problem with the Severin thesis is that recent work in Mesoamerican archaeology , and the deciphering of Mayan hieroglyphic codes , make it clear that the classic Mayan civilisation ( AD300 to AD900 ) had precursors going back to the Olmecs in 1000BC and earlier . |
| 7 | And the other one which is er Mr and that er has details of various convictions with er picture of his as a rather younger man er , various offences going back to nineteen seventy five and occupying quite a long space but there . |
| 8 | This is revealed in texts going back to about 2000 BC , notably in the ‘ Sumerian King List ’ which begins with a sequence of eight kings , presumably fabulous , whose reigns add up to a total of 241,200 years ! |
| 9 | Similarly , similarly I have prepared all this but just shortly before the meeting I have had a whole wodge of suggestion forms going back to November which I have obviously not taken into account yet . . |
| 10 | Accusations that one group had stolen ideas from the other were soon flying ; Jones showed notebooks of his investigations going back to 1986 and cited a paper written in 1985 ; for their part Fleischmann and Pons insisted that their effort had begun in 1985 , all of which added to the perception that the fusion claims were important and the patents worth fighting for . |
| 11 | As a matter of principle , the bank in such circumstances should not be entitled to rely on the transaction and this is the view which has been taken by a series of authorities going back to the beginning of this century . |
| 12 | Where are the tapes going back to ? |
| 13 | At the same time I was working on a small English-Burmese dictionary with about 3,500 of the most common words likely to be needed by government workers going back into Burma when liberation should come . |
| 14 | A delightful village pub with traditions going back to the eighteenth-century . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We were able to confirm the histories of families going back to the 19th century . |
| 17 | Sure enough , there is observational evidence of such clusters going back to the 11 000 nebular objects listed in J. L. E. Dreyer 's New General Catalogue , in the 1890s , long before Hubble 's discovery of their true nature . |
| 18 | Talk is of household refuse trains going back to the moth-balled Gobowen to Nanbrynmawr line — from Manchester . |
| 19 | It was peaceful more than frenetic , a mirage of slow dawns and sunsets going back to the fluted point people : humbling . |
| 20 | The retirement of Sergeant Merrey marked the end of another era — not only the departure of a friend and character , but the last of a long line of School Sergeants going back to the appointment of Sgt. Sash in 1888 . |
| 21 | The scope for disagreement between plaintiffs and defendants has been narrowed by the move by district registries to publish hourly rates going back at least five years . |
| 22 | Others , being anciently established , also have manuscript materials going back to the days of their foundation in the Middle Ages or the Tudor period . |
| 23 | The family live near Hexham somewhere and they have connections going back to the early nineteenth century , ’ Constance said , quoting Miss Hatherby almost verbatim . |
| 24 | Twenty thousand Ski Americans going back to their valley farms , after an evening infected with urban sleaze . |
| 25 | The combination of bishopric and monastery was one of the main results of the tenth-century monastic revival , and it had tenuous threads going back to the seventh century . |
| 26 | It has , of course , been a problem with star conductors going back to the time of Nikisch that the conductor can come to seem more charismatic than the music he is conducting . |
| 27 | It was a culmination of measures going back to the middle of the nineteenth century , but more particularly government experience since the 1890s. and above all , a shift in attitudes towards State-provided housing . |
| 28 | My parents collected all their copies of Wimpey News and we have back numbers going back to the 1940s . |
| 29 | These are abused young children going back to a parent and troubled adolescents returning home from residential care . |
| 30 | Well Jim , Jim saw the children going back to er school after swimming |