Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [verb] 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 | The last thing I wanted was to find myself slithering down the steep craggy section above the corrie , having mistakenly bypassed the Y-shaped gully that led back to the car , yet I could sense I was getting it all a bit wrong . |
| 6 | The Penhill site may be the source of a story that goes back to Celtic mythology , " The Legend of the Giant of Penhill " . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Only in London and Liverpool was there any tradition of Mat building that went back to the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | They require very little attention — the only pruning needed is the removal of old barky wood , and of course that cut back by wind . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The smell that floated back from the river with its docks and factories was unpleasant , like her life at present . |
| 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 | Her leg cracked against a trailer bar that sloped back to a set of wheels . |
| 15 | I advise him that with unlimited spending , with arbitrary revaluations , with a rates proposal that goes back to 1973 — |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A former coaching inn that dates back to 1780 . |
| 18 | At the direction of his wife he had taken fourteen full days in the sun that beat back from the Indian Ocean 's azure . |
| 19 | ‘ Classic Italian elegance that harks back to one of the greatest ever Ferraris , the Daytona ’ |
| 20 | Isambard 's deep eyes flashed to Harry 's face and lingered there , untroubled by the naked hate and defiance that stared back at him . |
| 21 | The upper gallery was lit only by two of the many triple candle-holders in wall-scounces , one at the top of the stairs , and one down the left corridor that led back to the front of the house . |
| 22 | It was only when she had closed the door behind her and was hurrying along the corridor that led back into the hall that she noticed the painting . |
| 23 | The denser the matter , the more curvature and the greater the chance of having a universe that closes back on itself . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ How does that fit in with this idea of a universe that doubles back on itself ? ’ |
| 25 | The books were behind glass , and the reflection that stared back at him showed the face of a stranger . |
| 26 | By the time Vidal Sassoon had finished with her Paula 's long fair locks had been shorn to a sharp geometric shape and she scarcely recognised the reflection that looked back at her from the mirror . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The great experiment in redemption that began back in Genesis 12 has failed . |
| 29 | I did n't identify with the tired , frightened failure that stared back at me from the mirror . |
| 30 | Cos it 's sad in my opinion that going back to where we were several months ago because we set out out to attracting higher quality people paying them more money and we 've come back again to basically seeing the people who we saw in the first instance |