Example sentences of "[noun] goes back [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nazi thugs burn down Sony 's Berlin premises : Chancellor Kohl wins big cheers when he says the perpetrators are just high-spirited hooligans , reminds listeners that German-Japanese friendship goes back more than 50 years . |
| 2 | The police are now also checking records of indecent assaults in Oxford , to see if the pattern of attacks goes back further than last year . |
| 3 | The arrival of this ‘ adventitious ’ rural population goes back further than is often assumed , and is by no means a purely post-war phenomenon . |
| 4 | But his role in their problems goes back further than that . |
| 5 | The bad feeling goes back further than that — because the England striker was himself red-carded after a bust-up involving Walsh at Leicester two seasons ago . |
| 6 | Although the concept of what we now call a black hole goes back more than two hundred years , the name black hole was introduced only in 1967 by the American physicist John Wheeler . |
| 7 | His memory goes back further than I could possibly hope to remember . |
| 8 | For Dr. Citterio , this classic antipasto goes back more than 110 years . |
| 9 | Susie Cooper 's career as a talented designer goes back more than 60 years , during which she has won international acclaim . |