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Example sentences of "[vb pp] back [prep] [art] time " in BNC.

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1	Dunvegan was the headquarters of the clan Macleod ; the old castle , a ruin in Johnson 's time , dated back to a time of Viking rule .
2	The British connection dated back to the time when Jacobite refugees settled here in the eighteenth century , but it was after Wellington 's victories in the region early in the 1800s that it became serious .
3	‘ What do you find to do , out all day ? ’ asked my mother , who only ventured out with a specific purpose in mind and always got back at the time she had decided she would .
4	He had only to pick one of them up to be transported back to the time and place of its acquisition .
5	Belief in the power of such plants can be traced back to the time of the Druids ; it was certainly part of the belief system of the Celtic peoples , and although it may not be voiced so explicitly as it once was , yet the custom of planting and preserving this special tree is still continued by some people .
6	Their heritage can be traced back to the time of the destruction of the Temple in 586 BC , when the Jews were taken captive into exile by the Babylonians .
7	Rug-making in the Balkans can be traced back to the time when the peninsula was under the control of the Turkish empire .
8	The time of the execution is also altered , being brought back to a time traditionally associated with " dawn " executions .
9	The forces of Chaos are driven back for a time and a fragile peace descends on Ulthuan .
10	In her latest novel , Jazz , Toni Morrison has dipped back into a time before cross-over , when African-American music was all-black , in her quest for a uniquely black literary language .
11	About half of them loosen up enough to allow the foreskin to be gently pulled back by the time the boy is a year old .
12	Hypnotists working for the police ask an individual , most commonly a witness or a victim , to imagine that he has gone back to the time of the crime .