Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adv] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | The library was large and , rather than hunt through the endless rows of volumes dating as far back as 1530 , she had sought the help of the librarian . |
| 2 | This public assertion of my childhood 's usefulness stands side by side with the painful personal knowledge , I think the knowledge of all of us , going as far back as the story lets us , that it would have been better if it had n't happened that way , had n't happened at all . |
| 3 | They were in fact social outcasts , to whom documentary references can be found going as far back as the thirteenth century . |
| 4 | Well , according to designers showing their collections for next autumn on the Paris runways this week , it 's going even further back in time . |
| 5 | There is a dominant sense of existentialism running through your books , beginning as far back as your first novel . |
| 6 | ‘ Doing all right back there ? ’ |
| 7 | They quote Seguin , for example , as saying as far back as 1846 : |
| 8 | The little creature was sitting as far back in the cage as he could get , obviously frightened at the attention he was receiving . |
| 9 | Eucalyptus gunnii can be encouraged to grow as a shrub , not a tree , by pruning very hard back every spring . |
| 10 | But this has a history stretching as far back … well , to tell you the truth — to when records began . |
| 11 | In Kansas , Mr Clinton was 46 per cent , Mr Brown 17 per cent with Mr Tsongas trailing even further back . |