Example sentences of "[noun pl] go back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you must you must have been asked dozens of times to go back into the pop concert field ? |
| 2 | The work of solicitors goes back to the 15th century and as time has gone on they have become increasingly influential . |
| 3 | But his eyes went back to the Workshops and he frowned and sought for the right thing to say . |
| 4 | As his eyes went back to the old lady , she saw the smile turn on again , and quick suspicion kindled in her breast . |
| 5 | The two brothers went back into the Guild Office , and Ebenezer began to gasp and splutter , telling his story as best he could : what Florrie had said to him about Tom 's letter and what Tom had threatened to do … . |
| 6 | Perhaps the biggest problem with the Severin thesis is that recent work in Mesoamerican archaeology , and the deciphering of Mayan hieroglyphic codes , make it clear that the classic Mayan civilisation ( AD300 to AD900 ) had precursors going back to the Olmecs in 1000BC and earlier . |
| 7 | When engineers go back to the drawing board and create a new design , they do not necessarily throw away the ideas from the old design . |
| 8 | But once record companies went back on the sales offensive the new pop was easily coopted . |
| 9 | But erm you know when we were on the strike if these lads would n't have gone back , there was couple of scabs went back into the quarry . |
| 10 | The school , whose origins go back to the twelfth century , has been moved to a new location . |
| 11 | Its origins go back to the rediscovery of perspective in the Renaissance , and then to the architect 's drawings of the eighteenth century . |
| 12 | As a matter of principle , the bank in such circumstances should not be entitled to rely on the transaction and this is the view which has been taken by a series of authorities going back to the beginning of this century . |
| 13 | Despite the fact that spiders are all over the place in Dostoevsky , not just in Svidrigailov 's dirty bathhouse vision of Eternity , and that urban potted plants go back to the beginning in Poor People , we are here firmly inside Crime and Punishment in its abandoned first-person narrative form ( ‘ I am on trial and will tell all ’ ) : Petersburg evenings and their hanging summer light , noises from below , happy workmen , blessed ‘ living life ’ elsewhere , a lonely man in pain passing through gates , over thresholds , slipping up and down staircases , the buzzing By of Raskolnikov 's dream and his awakening , intense time-consciousness alternating with time-oblivion . |
| 14 | With Sophie back behind much stronger bars , the intrepid PCs went back to the school yesterday to claim their reward chocolate coins . |
| 15 | She called them girls but many were women whose working days went back to the Utility dresses and khaki battle-dress . |
| 16 | The reputation of Vertus 's richly perfumed still red wines goes back to the fourteenth century ; in the seventeenth century these wines were favoured by William of Orange . |
| 17 | Put it in the pile of things to go back in the cupboards . ’ |
| 18 | A delightful village pub with traditions going back to the eighteenth-century . |
| 19 | Rights and properties going back to a remote and undocumented past appeared to him to have a sanction which no later enactment — not even by the pope — could alter . |
| 20 | We were able to confirm the histories of families going back to the 19th century . |
| 21 | Would you believe it — a false start and the man with the red flag is there to make sure all the eggs go back to the line . |
| 22 | Sure enough , there is observational evidence of such clusters going back to the 11 000 nebular objects listed in J. L. E. Dreyer 's New General Catalogue , in the 1890s , long before Hubble 's discovery of their true nature . |
| 23 | Talk is of household refuse trains going back to the moth-balled Gobowen to Nanbrynmawr line — from Manchester . |
| 24 | It was peaceful more than frenetic , a mirage of slow dawns and sunsets going back to the fluted point people : humbling . |
| 25 | The retirement of Sergeant Merrey marked the end of another era — not only the departure of a friend and character , but the last of a long line of School Sergeants going back to the appointment of Sgt. Sash in 1888 . |
| 26 | Before the patients go back to the ward , they will pat their faces back into place and often ask for reassurance that no-one will be told . |
| 27 | ‘ But the difference now is that the profits go back into the game and the WRU are to be congratulated on their decisions to tap in to the funds that are available . ’ |
| 28 | Horns go back to an older world where surrenders were not accepted , to the dead defiant Roland rather than the brave , polite , compromise-creating Sir Gawain , whose dinner is served to ‘ nwe nakryn noyse ’ — the sound of chivalric kettledrums . |
| 29 | Of course , the challenge is when people who are sensitised to their own attitudes go back into a work or social setting where people are not . |
| 30 | At this point the straw bolsters go back into the windows and the outer door is shut and locked . |