Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know how you do it , ’ said Jack , as I moved somewhat magisterially back to my seat . |
| 2 | I made it back to the car and drove very slowly back to my own apartment . |
| 3 | Cecilia turned somewhat fearfully back and saw that the man and the bear had gone to the far end of the coach where a woman not much younger than herself sat alone . |
| 4 | Scientific study of whales and dolphins began as far back as the fourth century BC , when the Greek philosopher Aristotle observed and experimented with live animals . |
| 5 | The fashion began as far back as 1783 when King George IV , then Prince of Wales , first paid a visit . |
| 6 | It has been well argued that the development of the Atlantic began as far back as Precambrian times . |
| 7 | ROMNEY Marsh , some forty-five miles south-east of London on the coast of Kent , is a two-hundred-square-mile area reclaimed from the sea by a system of dykes and channels started as far back as Roman times . |
| 8 | What he really wants is a business of the inside and outside of his head , in this case of his ‘ alone ’ juxtaposed with the authorial ‘ loneliness and estrangement ’ : a rich relationship , not a flat contradiction or dead end , a relationship which evokes and nurses a distinction established as far back as The Double , between false solitude ( ‘ loneliness and estrangement ’ ) and true solitude which is the obverse of true society and meaningless without it . |
| 9 | It went straight away back to the old socialist ideology of fifty years ago . |
| 10 | Its characteristics are personal acquisitiveness , set free by generous tax cuts for the rich and a licensed pursuit of the fast buck ; markets , including foreign exchange , left unfettered to bestow their dynamism on the economy ; a state rolled as far back as is electorally tenable ; and a participatory capitalism , based on profit rather than ownership , where almost anything is a commodity to be traded . |
| 11 | ‘ It might not be but it 's the godalmighty truth , ’ he asserted so playfully back that the whole table laughed . |
| 12 | After a time she said : ‘ You did all right back there … followed the rules . ’ |
| 13 | He smiled across at her , and as she opened her book at the Prologue , she smiled quite sweetly back at him . |
| 14 | Alexander wrote as far back as 1910 : |