Example sentences of "[vb base] back [prep] [art] old " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were moderns , they must keep faith with their generation and not look back towards the old one . |
| 2 | They always look back to the old smokestack industries . |
| 3 | I look back at the old woman , marvelling at Enid and Philip for finding her interesting enough to talk about . |
| 4 | Indeed when times get bad things are often better for them as people turn back to the old faiths . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The only time he perks up is when we go back to the old house for meetings with the estate agent . |
| 7 | they should of , go back to the old system that they took the man 's wage in , only into consideration |
| 8 | They hark back to an older , more religious notion , where it 's not a question of wholeness of being , but of holes . |
| 9 | They wo n't do away with them , no but cos they , they 're trying to do away with the National Dock Labour Board and come back to the old system . |
| 10 | Popular American poetry of the period encouraged not only ‘ the coming together of East and West ’ , but also Vachel Lindsay 's attempts ‘ to carry … vaudeville form back towards the old Greek precedent of the half-chanted lyric ’ . |