Example sentences of "goes back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Justin goes back to England for a while , and then , having broken some hearts , arrives in the Sudan to perform his own suicide . |
| 2 | The chariot goes back and forth , back and forth , chanting its litany , he wrote . |
| 3 | Often , even after insisting that everyone goes back to the launch point , there will be barely enough people to hold all the gliders down , turn them around and re-park them if the wind changes . |
| 4 | It goes back to , and celebrates , the deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt 's bondage under Moses . |
| 5 | This goes back at least as far as Aristotle . |
| 6 | ‘ Ringwood 's history with dogs goes back a bit further . |
| 7 | The drink theme too , broadly understood , goes back a very long way . |
| 8 | The episode with the child is a reworking of Svidrigailov 's nightmare immediately before his suicide , in which he finds an abandoned little girl and carries her upstairs and puts her in his bed , and goes back later to see how she is . |
| 9 | Doubling in Dostoevsky , which goes back to the very beginning , to Mr Devushkin living and not living in the kitchen , which has its post-Siberian developments in the underground man 's now-you-see-me-now-you-don't ‘ flashing ’ of his consciousness , in Raskolnikov 's and Svidrigailov 's different ways of being among but not with us and Porfiry 's torture tune of ‘ There 's nothing here , precisely nothing , perhaps absolutely nothing ’ — doubling takes on a new form in The Possessed , closer to the I/We/They/Everybody/Nobody shifts of The House of the Dead than anything else before it or to come . |
| 10 | Sir : The doctor 's plate offering two grades of medical advice ( letter , 4 October ) goes back to the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | The tradition , which goes back at least 2,500 years , continued until the early part of this century . |
| 12 | When he goes back home to his tiny home village of Plains , Georgia , he teaches Sunday school . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Thus was begun another chapter in the extraordinary history of St Clement Danes — a history that goes back until the time of King Arthur , who expelled the Danes from the city of London but allowed those with English wives to settle just outside the city walls . |
| 15 | The story is not an easy one to follow , particularly as it goes back and forth in time , and locations change quickly . |
| 16 | My mind goes back to the original fifteen-year Hospital Plan , published in January 1962 . |
| 17 | If the poem goes back to the origins of religion , it also goes back to the origins of society and language . |
| 18 | If the poem goes back to the origins of religion , it also goes back to the origins of society and language . |
| 19 | Anthropology as an organized subject goes back to the mid-nineteenth century [ Fortes 1969:6 , following Kroeber ] and was closely associated with the study of evolution . |
| 20 | This central role for private property has a long history in European thought and goes back to the eighteenth-century notion of the social contract . |
| 21 | Marx in many ways was the heir of the tradition which goes back to Rousseau and much of his work is concerned with demonstrating why private property equals exploitation . |
| 22 | In one direction only a little earthy bank separates me from the edge of the ocean , while in the other the valley goes back for miles and miles . |
| 23 | It goes back for ever . |
| 24 | Rudd 's passion for engineering goes back to childhood , and particularly to one ‘ action-packed weekend ’ when , as an eight-year-old , he stayed with his maiden aunt in London . |
| 25 | This kind of rudeness goes back to Rabelais and far beyond . |
| 26 | We 're walking past this telly shop when Marie suddenly stops and goes back a couple of steps . |
| 27 | She sort of glances at me and then she goes back to watching her programme . |
| 28 | The pageantry of the Sovereign 's Parade , When the senior cadets are formally commissioned and the Adjutant tides up the steps of Old Building on his White charger , goes back many years . |
| 29 | She goes back therefrequently , and whenever she returns she takes books to distribute in the villages — they are highly prized in Nigeria , where it takes half an average month 's salary to buy a hardback . |
| 30 | It has a history that goes back to Morgan and Drake , a history of piracy and corruption that reaches down to the present day . |