Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] back [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes back to Descartes . |
| 2 | The story goes back to Mnaseas , a writer of the second half of the second century B.C. ( c . |
| 3 | Stress-free Duchess goes back to work |
| 4 | When they reached the destination the driver looks back in horror and says the poodle has disgraced itself . |
| 5 | Lyndhurst West looks back at COMDEX , and decides what 's hot , and what 's not in Coming our way . |
| 6 | For most of us the mental picture of an experiment goes back to school laboratories . |
| 7 | In preparing to start my personal campaign for 1991 , my mind goes back to Peachtree in Atlanta in August 1989 . |
| 8 | There are days when I sit down and my mind goes back to prison , when I 'd be looking out the window , thinking , I wish I was out there , you know , doing something . |
| 9 | The search goes back to Moscow for the truth about Wallenberg : This Sunday leaders of Sweden 's Raoul Wallenberg Society arrive in Moscow for meetings with Soviet officials . |
| 10 | Though lacking its crackling intensity , The Rock looks back towards Sweeney Agonistes and Eliot 's earlier work . |
| 11 | Veteran looks back in anguish Wednesday People . |
| 12 | Killer wind roars back in Florida |
| 13 | And still my mind runs back to self . |
| 14 | The children like this part , when the mermaid comes back to life , they quiver with pleasure at the strong magic of it . |
| 15 | An audience can only sit at the front of the stage and the hall stretches back for miles . |
| 16 | LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE PULLS BACK ON TAURUS |
| 17 | Large real depreciations were needed during the 1980s to bring exchange rates back to equilibrium . |
| 18 | In many of the simpler agricultural societies this is also the normal way to organize labour ; no wages are paid , but , over a period , each household pays back in labour form whatever it has previously received in labour form . |
| 19 | Judge hits back over sex jibe |
| 20 | She got the 7.15 bus , feeling an anxious as a mother who is n't home in time for when her little boy comes back from school . |
| 21 | From Solva the route cuts back across country to Llanunwas Farm . |
| 22 | And the criminal record goes back for centuries . |
| 23 | A sprightly 81 years old , this English engineer and inventor looks back with satisfaction on a lifetime as an explorer of the heavens , the Earth , and the limits of the technically feasible . |
| 24 | The RAF team arrives back in Britain tonight . |
| 25 | Apart from improving efficiency and reducing noise nuisance , the twist on a swept wing harks back to Don Dunford 's original statement concerning relative incidence fore and aft making his kite so stable and controllable . |
| 26 | Their personal contact goes back to June 1991 , when Yeltsin , newly elected Russian president but under threat from the Soviet army and KGB , was seeking the support of reliable elements as he set about forming a government . |
| 27 | At level weight today it will be a different story and the ball looks back in Katabatic 's court . |
| 28 | According to John Hills of the London School of Economics , the average person gets back in benefits about two-thirds of what he pays in taxes over his lifetime ; the richest 10% of people get back about half . |
| 29 | The answer is that after mating they produce a tiny mobile larvae totally different to the adult this might drift for miles on ocean current before settling into the fixed adult form Down Norwick power station in North Wales , generates the electricity by pump storage , in off peak hours thousands of gallons of water are pumped from a lower lake to an upper lake , when the demand for electricity is high bowels are opened and water falls back through turbine to the lower lake again , this generates the power To ensure that the lower lake would never flood the was diverted through mile long tunnel in the mountain side , no one knew for certain how the salmon , the trout and even rarer that used to migrate up the old river would cope with the tunnels , pitch darkness and slow flowing water . |
| 30 | The friend indicates back to Lyneham Walk . |