Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb -s] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what you 're doing here I think it is er , er an example of the partnership , a partnership that goes back for many years , certainly during World War Two and I think er it is still strong and er holds firm today the partnership between the United States and Great Britain . |
| 2 | They and the opposition are up against a tradition of oppression that goes back to Tamerlane . |
| 3 | Only 15 months later , the participants in that match , which , it must be said , was not full of passion , are now presumably heavily engaged in destroying each other simply because they come from two sides of a divide that dates back to the tragedies , miseries and horrors of the second world war , back to the first world war and into the deep recesses of history before that time . |
| 4 | And at the same time , and slightly in contradiction to that , I found it increasing erm , er , perception and indication of dissatisfaction with the way in which the joint er , collaborative structures were actually working , if I may say , especially at the top level in terms of the political erm erm , so I say to you colleagues , that you are required as er , by statute to , to have in place collaborative structures , er , under a statute that goes back to the nineteen seventies , and I should also say to you that up and down the country that authorities like your own are at this stage doing what you 're doing , and that is reviewing the effectiveness of the operation of those structures , and probably coming to much the same conclusions . |
| 5 | He comes pounding down the ladder , and grabs the wheel and stampedes back into the waves . |
| 6 | The recurrent nerve leaves the hypocerebral ganglion as a median or paired lateral oesophageal nerve and passes back to the hinder region of the fore gut , where it ( or each branch ) terminates in a ventricular ganglion . |
| 7 | One classic route follows Gunnerside Gill to the dams at Blakethwaite and returns back to Gunnerside by Hard Level , Old Gang and the track over Brownsey Moor by Long Brae to Potting . |
| 8 | If there are no more loans to be entered , the user presses the RETURN key and goes back to the options list . |
| 9 | The Penhill site may be the source of a story that goes back to Celtic mythology , " The Legend of the Giant of Penhill " . |
| 10 | They tell a story that reaches back to neolithic man some 5,000 years ago , to the Roman occupation , to the many religious and military influences and the continuing threat of invasion over the years . |
| 11 | Now in fact what that means for me is that actually we 're all programmers — we always have been — but we have n't been used to explaining it in quite the way that computers need us to explain it , and of course that goes back to this question of understanding English that we were talking about last time . |
| 12 | Most relate to the use of custodial penalties and are based on a technique that dates back to 1949 when courts were directed to avoid passing custodial sentences on young adult offenders unless it appeared that no other method was appropriate . |
| 13 | The smaller machines in ICL 's 2900 series provide an eleven-bit link field that points back to the home bucket if the record is stored in overflow . |
| 14 | I advise him that with unlimited spending , with arbitrary revaluations , with a rates proposal that goes back to 1973 — |
| 15 | Richard Parker Landscapes Colour Around Us , The Art Gallery , Queensway , Billingham ( until June 27 ) IN what is effectively a full-scale retrospective with work that goes back to 1958 , Richard Parker shares with us his great love of landscape . |
| 16 | A former coaching inn that dates back to 1780 . |
| 17 | ‘ Classic Italian elegance that harks back to one of the greatest ever Ferraris , the Daytona ’ |
| 18 | The denser the matter , the more curvature and the greater the chance of having a universe that closes back on itself . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ How does that fit in with this idea of a universe that doubles back on itself ? ’ |
| 20 | Not far from the citadel , should you choose to cross over to that less appealing side of Bayonne , is a small English war cemetery that dates back to the siege . |
| 21 | Grant Simons presents a view of the inside of the North American XB-70 Valkyrie at the USAF Museum and looks back into the type 's turbulent past |
| 22 | He takes the wood and disappears back into the tent . |
| 23 | Maggie awaken from the damp heavy warmth of Ted 's body dead in sleep and the blankets piled on the single bed with a dip in the middle brushes her hair and clutches back at the ribbon of dreams from the night before . |
| 24 | A substantial stone-lined stepped culvert that supplied water to the wheel still remains under the lane and empties back into the stream via a long tail-race to the rear of the mill . |
| 25 | Someone comes to the hotel lobby entrance , looks around the car park and disappears back in . |
| 26 | Gieves , a business that dates back to 1785 , were above all tailors to the officers of HM Navy , many of whom , the management appreciated , could not afford to buy a good quality uniform , which they had to provide themselves , and pay for it in cash . |
| 27 | The part to go is the Business Systems line of Motorola Inc 68000- and Intel Corp iAPX-86-based Unix machines that are the direct successors to Texas 's old TI 980 and TI 990 minicomputer business that goes back to the early 1970s . |
| 28 | Three living dolphin groups have a record that extends back to about the late Miocene period some 11 million years ago . |
| 29 | He also dismissed the allegation — popular with some Christian mason-watchers — that freemasonry was founded in an x ‘ antiquity that goes back into pagan religions well before the birth of Christ ’ . |
| 30 | When it has stopped coming , he drops the body and goes back for another lamb and another , creeping down the earthen steps with his blood-stained knife and his feet and ankles splashed with red . |