Example sentences of "[noun] go back to [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 | Professor John Ashworth , vice-chairman of the committee of vice-chancellors and principals ( CVCP ) , also urged Mr MacGregor to use ‘ a heaven-sent opportunity to go back to the drawing board and look at the entire issue of how students are supported — grants , loans and fees . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The work of solicitors goes back to the 15th century and as time has gone on they have become increasingly influential . |
| 8 | Much of the Bible 's teaching goes back to the way we are made ; it goes back to creation itself . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | My mind goes back to the original fifteen-year Hospital Plan , published in January 1962 . |
| 11 | Sarah had come to the car with them and Julia asked Pat to go back to the reception . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His origins are obscure , but he seems to have been a German from one of the tribes which were allowed to settle within the Empire , and for which privilege they were liable for military service , a practice going back to the late third century . |
| 14 | Lord Vansittart , a former Foreign Office official , had written a pamphlet entitled Black Record blaming the Germans for a record of barbarism going back to the era of the Roman Empire . |
| 15 | Once Ranulf had gone , Athelstan sat on the altar steps , his mind going back to the corpses he had seen : Vechey 's lying cold amongst those dreadful heads on the tower gate of London Bridge ; Brampton 's sheathed in dirty canvas in the death house of St Mary Le Bow ; Springall 's lying alone under its leather covering in the great four poster bed in his mansion . |
| 16 | Markby went back to the living room where the Queen 's Speech was finished , Matthew and Emma were watching a film and Emily had been sick . |
| 17 | But his eyes went back to the Workshops and he frowned and sought for the right thing to say . |
| 18 | As his eyes went back to the old lady , she saw the smile turn on again , and quick suspicion kindled in her breast . |
| 19 | The superintendent went back to the shop-floor and David looked at Rachel . |
| 20 | I see in today 's papers that Batty will be back in the team for tomorrow , does this mean that Wilko will drop Fairclough or Newsome or will he let Rocky go back to the bench and play essentially a back 6 ? |
| 21 | Horatia fled and Rossmayne went back to the window where he had been standing when the bad dream had begun . |
| 22 | Roger Courtney went back to the raiding of the SBS which we will follow in later Chapters . |
| 23 | ‘ My father called me Breeze , ’ she added , as he seemed interested ; and as she said that her mind went back to the hot summer 's day when her father had given her the nickname which had been adopted by everyone . |
| 24 | Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ? |
| 25 | His mind went back to the familiar and unanswerable question : who killed Newley ? |
| 26 | My mind went back to the scene in that bedroom and the sliding doors to the paved patio . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | ( Koch 1985a , p. 149 ) Koch and others have stressed that because this conception of the gaze goes back to the Freudian idea of an originary bisexuality it therefore affords a better explanation of women 's actual viewing behaviour , e.g. their multiple identifications with either gender . |
| 29 | The work of cataloguing goes back to the early years of Italian unification in the late nineteenth century when the first photographs were taken of archaeological sites and of celebrated pictures and monuments . |
| 30 | Eva goes back to the kitchenette , opens a cupboard , and returns holding a small white supermarket tub . |