Example sentences of "[verb] back [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Know , thinking about people walking back as far as t' shopping my point . |
| 2 | Giles shouted back as loudly as he could . |
| 3 | ‘ You attacked me , ’ she came back as coolly as she could . |
| 4 | I came back as fast as I could . " |
| 5 | And this was just one of a number of sites , known only to Halim and his team , where the early Chinese mariners had buried their dead together , as was their custom , with porcelain some of which had been fired in the imperial kilns of the Sung and Ming dynasties and dated back as far as the eleventh century . |
| 6 | It could date back as far as the middle of the ninth century and was closely associated with the later castle . |
| 7 | Close your eyes , inhale and bend back as far as you can ( without any discomfort ) thrusting your arms back . |
| 8 | I thought that , if I 'd just come from the Sahara to here , I 'd head back as soon as possible , family duties or not . |
| 9 | ‘ The way we conceded goals at Coventry was very hard to take and I 'm looking for us to bounce back as quickly as possible . |
| 10 | The curtains were drawn back as far as they would go , and whenever she looked up the green-brown panorama confronted her and the pale bowl of sky . |
| 11 | In a review of studies on the ability of the older worker to learn , going back as far as the 1920s , it was concluded that changes in learning ability with age are generally small . |
| 12 | This trade-off was based on the original observations by Professor A. W. Phillips of the relationship between the rate of change of money wage rates and unemployment levels over long periods of time going back as far as 1861 . |
| 13 | The first view we can call the " empiricist " , and derives from a philosophical tradition which reaches back as far as Aristotle and runs through more historically recent figures such as Bacon , Locke , Hume , J.S. Mill , and , in the twentieth century , the logical positivists and , latterly , the neo-realists . |
| 14 | He was white with rage and she stepped back rather fearfully as he came inside and slammed the door , locking it securely . |
| 15 | She knew how Sisyphus must have felt , rolling that stone wearily up the hill , only to see it slide back down again as he made it to the top . |
| 16 | Then , having quickly brushed her hair , she rushed back downstairs just as Madame was throwing her finished cigarette in the fire . |
| 17 | Another area used in attack is the ball of the foot , whose effectiveness depends upon the toes being bent back as far as possible . |
| 18 | Based in Bristol , Sun Life has a history that stretches back as far as 1810 . |
| 19 | Once a Roman colony , Rimini 's history stretches back as far as 268 BC . |
| 20 | There was one kid , however , who did n't move back as far as the rest of his row , so I politely asked him to get in line . |
| 21 | I got back as quickly as I could . |
| 22 | 'Settle back as comfortably as you can … and as you relax in the chair concentrate upon your breathing , breathing in and out through your nose and from your stomach … lift your chest to allow your lungs to fill … in and out … slowly and smoothly . |
| 23 | The method of study developed by Leeds can be traced back as early as 1912 in his career ; however the formulation of the theoretical framework was achieved by the prehistorian Gordon Childe who stated that prehistoric archaeology should be ‘ devoted to isolating such cultural groups of peoples , tracing the differentiations , wanderings and interactions ’ ( 1933 p. 417 ) . |
| 24 | The suspicion that viruses might cause cancer can be traced back as far as 1911 . |
| 25 | For example , Bracey ( 1958 ) in a study of 375 Somerset parishes found that , in general , the more remote and less well serviced parishes were those with the worst and most persistent depopulation , and findings like this only encouraged the further development of theories of settlement concentration in the 1960s although these can also be traced back as far as 1918 , when Peake ( 1918 ) advocated equally-spaced villages with populations of between 1,000 and 1,500 people . |
| 26 | There is a good deal of evidence elsewhere in the Digest to show that in civil-law dispositions too intention was regarded as the key to application of a condition or a term ; and this goes back as early as Pegasus . |
| 27 | I fought back as hard as I could . |
| 28 | When the handicap player copies the picture and ‘ freezes ’ his movement , he might as well only swing back as far as that . |
| 29 | Your working life can go back as far as April 1936 , but not further . |
| 30 | Where then with their pathetic bleatings of contempt , or do n't you go back as far as er . |