Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] back [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sooner DOL gets back the better IMO . |
| 2 | Have you seen how the king of the jungle behaves when the missus brings back a nice bit of venison ? |
| 3 | The literature on the professions goes back a long way , but seems to have reached a peak in the 1960s and 1970s ( see , for example , Etzioni 1969 ; Jackson 1970 ) , perhaps because the professions were at an apogee of esteem at that point , before the attacks of Illich ( 1977 ) and others who , like Shaw many years before , accused them of establishing a ‘ radical monopoly ’ in the name of meeting people 's ‘ needs ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’ |
| 5 | The scale of the potential danger emerged when it was revealed that the dam holds back an estimated 3.5 million tons of toxic sludge from a now-closed lead and zinc mine nearby , containing harmful levels of these and other metals . |
| 6 | Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way . |
| 7 | Iron working in the area goes back a long way . |
| 8 | However , social historians say couples having non-penetrative sex goes back a long way . |
| 9 | This awareness goes back a long time , and to Lace it we need to leave the field of folklore and go back into the realms of ancient philosophy . |
| 10 | The need to catch whales goes back a thousand years or more in Japanese history . |
| 11 | The defence infused a breathless energy into every move ; they bustled the northern cracks into comparative impotence ; they beat back this magnificent fighting line which has been the terror of a dozen clubs as a break-water hurls back the lashing waves . |
| 12 | The thought of these two Smith & Wessons brings back an old tingle . |
| 13 | ‘ His family goes back a long way . ’ |
| 14 | For BP , involvement in the region goes back a long way . |
| 15 | The partnership of Müller and Völker dates back a few years to the Bayreuth Festival — we have extracts of their portrayals there of these roles in 1936 ( but studio-made ) on Telefunken ( available on a variety of labels on LP ) . |