Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes back to the major earthquake , magnitude 7 on the Richter scale , which rocked Greece in February 1981 . |
| 2 | The base goes back to the RAFin SEptember 94. it 's not yet known what will be done with the land but many local people hope it 'll be used the upper H |
| 3 | The origin of the synagogue goes back to the Babylonian period . |
| 4 | There is nothing what actually says , only when that cheque goes back to the bank , there 's nothing anywhere apart from the bank who says that cheque is actually made out to . |
| 5 | Fahey , whose international experience goes back to the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 , when he lost the bronze medal in a jump-off , qualified for last year 's World Cup Final , but decided his horse was not then ready for it . |
| 6 | In other words , I mean I 'm retired and I mean the point is that my erm experience goes back into the er into the dark ages I can almost say because in these days , you probably realise , I mean if anybody buys a video you do n't ask you do n't look for the book of instructions you ask about a five year old kiddy how to programme it ! |
| 7 | The work of solicitors goes back to the 15th century and as time has gone on they have become increasingly influential . |
| 8 | The it in the second sentence refers back to the ball . |
| 9 | Much of the Bible 's teaching goes back to the way we are made ; it goes back to creation itself . |
| 10 | Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 . |
| 11 | The very important interest JCI has in the diamond industry goes back to the days when Barney Barnato , together with Cecil Rhodes played an important role in the establishment of De Beers in Kimberley . |
| 12 | My mind goes back to the original fifteen-year Hospital Plan , published in January 1962 . |
| 13 | The history of the perehera goes back to the second century AD , when King Gajabuha won a great victory against his foes in southern India , the Tamils , chasing them back across the narrow strait into their homeland . |
| 14 | Barbara Buhler looks back at the effect of criticism on Georgia O'Keeffe 's art in the 1920s |
| 15 | Another famous hillside figure harks back to the days when , according to legends , giants walked the land . |
| 16 | The architecture shows the influence of the Italian colonisation ; the modern harbour harks back to the healthy export of livestock to the Gulf States ; and the large scale agricultural activity in the adjacent fertile valley now lies dormant with equipment and crops stolen and even the electricity pylons stripped of their cables . |
| 17 | Wright was the first of Souness 's multi-million pound recruits back in the summer of 1991 , but his fortunes took a savage nosedive in September after a string of poor Liverpool results against Aston Villa , Chesterfield and Wimbledon . |
| 18 | The tube can be lowered into the tank and once a syphon has been made , the tube picks up gravel and agitates it and once you apply your thumb to the end of the hose , the gravel falls back to the bottom , leaving you with clean substrate and a bucketful of dirty water . |
| 19 | Damon Hill walks back to the pits after colliding with Italy 's Alessandro Zanardi in the South African Grand Prix yesterday . |
| 20 | The so-called ’ swan-upping ’ ceremony dates back to the fourteenth century … but nowadays its as much a fun day out as a way of keeping the swans healthy . |
| 21 | If all the transactions costs are zero , this condition collapses back to the previous no-arbitrage equality . |
| 22 | The fine church of St Wilfrid dates back to the 12th century , although there is mention of a church in the Domesday Book . |
| 23 | Perhaps the DNA of the mule germ-cells mutates back to the parental forms or , more speculatively , as Taylor and Short suggest , borrows chromatin ( chromosomal material ) from a neighbouring cell . |
| 24 | We walked round for a bit then we came back and watched The Bug-Eyed Monster Strikes Back on the television . |
| 25 | But everyone ends up hiding under the sheets , not too terrified , and a philosophical bear lollops back along the beach to his cave . |
| 26 | The ‘ Lang comes back from the grave ’ phenomenon makes the whole election seem a disaster for the anti-unionist forces , but it was much less of one than 1979 . |
| 27 | Andy comes back with a glass of milk . |
| 28 | ‘ I recently bought lots of special doggie chews back from the States . |
| 29 | at Bristol City tomorrow in the Combination with goalkeeper Jason Winters back after a foot injury . |
| 30 | In order to challenge this complex of interlocking polarities , Amalgamemnon goes back to a time when the two domains , though distinct , were not yet differentiated by separate modes of narrative , back to Herodotus , the first prose artist and ‘ the father of fibstory ’ ( 22,113 ) . |