Example sentences of "[vb -s] back [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Purists are giving the thumbs up to the Everton away strip in salmon and navy which , according to Umbro , harks back to the 1880s for inspiration , while Man Utd 's basic blue and Ipswich Town 's nod towards the Thirties also appeal . |
| 32 | STORY : how Meaulnes gets back to the lost domain . |
| 33 | There are n't very many , I mean , it gets back to the other thing which is underlining my thinking about this stuff because erm you 're dealing with cultural form . |
| 34 | ‘ He will be satisfied if he gets back on the Irish team , but it is not possibility he could push himself right to the forefront . ’ |
| 35 | But Liza ( with a ‘ Z ’ ) kicked the bad habits today her only addictions are cigarettes and caffeine and gets back into the old song-and-dance routine for Stepping Out , released on CIC Video on March 20 . |
| 36 | After a week , Shaun calls back for the full container and drops off a new one . |
| 37 | Tory group leader Coun John Hale said : ‘ It all stems back to the early days when people were encouraged not to pay and the momentum has built up from this . ’ |
| 38 | In most cases , the stem simply withers back to the first node , and remains as an unsightly brown spur . |
| 39 | In the end there were certain logistical difficulties in getting all the petition forms back from the outlying islands in time for Helen Martini 's departure for London on Thursday 14 March . |
| 40 | The private sector of rented accommodation has become a relatively minor part of the housing market and its long-term decline certainly stretches back to the First World War . |
| 41 | Olivetti 's commercial relationship with the Maynard minimaker stretches back to the 1970s , when the Ivrea company used to buy in DEC PDP-11 minis OEM for use as branch controllers for sale with its banking terminals . |
| 42 | Her curry love affair stretches back to the mid-Seventies when she worked as a volunteer in a children and old people 's home . |
| 43 | Our traditional attractions include the beginnings of the white cliffs of Dover , historic monuments such as the landing places of St. Augustine and Julius Caesar , and the medieval cinque port of Sandwich , whose parliamentary representation stretches back in an unbroken line to the days of Simon de Montfort . |
| 44 | The major question thus always remains unanswered in the Critique : every time that Sartre announces that he is about to proceed with the fundamental problem of how History can be a totalization without a totalizer , he turns back to a previous , more easily intelligible stage on the way . |
| 45 | And just selfish enough to demand that momma bird flies back to the bloody nest — surely to God not tonight , you ca n't do this to me , Lucy , I 'm going to crack with all this nothing . |
| 46 | Not too often that a company goes back to a previous vendor after switching , but Hydro Mississauga Ltd of the eponymous Ontario town , is returning to the Hewlett-Packard Co HP 3000 with Mitchell Humphrey & Co financials , after three years of using an IBM Corp 4381 : the change is being made in an effort to save $2m in operating costs and gain performance improvements , dumping the 4381 for an HP 3000 Series 957 running HP MPE/iX ; it says the power of the new machine has enabled it to reduce its operations shifts from three to two and to cut overnight batch processing from 11 to four hours , and one table-loading job was shortened from 14 hours to 20 minutes — and on-line response time is ‘ significantly improved ’ ; it switched from an HP 3000 Series 70 that lacked the capacity needed in 1989 , moving to the 4381 with Dun & Bradstreet Corp software . |
| 47 | Hot cross buns , Simnel cake and Easter biscuits ( see recipes on page 60 ) contain currants and mixed spices that have been eaten at Lent since Elizabethan times , although their use goes back to the Middle Ages when only the rich could afford spice . |
| 48 | Probably , someone you would disapprove of I did n't know whether remember no probably not it goes back to the middle ages . |
| 49 | ( Koch 1985a , p. 149 ) Koch and others have stressed that because this conception of the gaze goes back to the Freudian idea of an originary bisexuality it therefore affords a better explanation of women 's actual viewing behaviour , e.g. their multiple identifications with either gender . |
| 50 | The papal banner , the vexillum sancti Petri , goes back to the eleventh century , perhaps to Alexander II ( 1061 – 1073 ) . |
| 51 | Patrick Motors ' interest in car design goes back to the '30s when the company designed and built its own ‘ Patrick Specials ’ . |
| 52 | Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression . |
| 53 | This is a process which goes back to the two questions raised on page 66 : |
| 54 | Support for such a fund goes back to the Evershed Committee in 1953 , which recommended that a fund should be available for actions at first instance and on appeal , certified by the Attorney-General as raising a question of law of exceptional public interest which it is in the public interest to clarify . |
| 55 | The recorded history of the church goes back to the mid-12th century , and in this study the Author describes church life in Foleshill from the outbreak of World War Two , right through to the restoration of the Old Church ( as it is known locally ) . |
| 56 | It goes back to the second world war , really . |
| 57 | The history of the perehera goes back to the second century AD , when King Gajabuha won a great victory against his foes in southern India , the Tamils , chasing them back across the narrow strait into their homeland . |
| 58 | The work of solicitors goes back to the 15th century and as time has gone on they have become increasingly influential . |
| 59 | Evidence of human occupation here goes back to the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods ( Early and Middle Stone Ages ) but its period of greatest activity was in the Late Iron Age , from roughly 100 BC to 50 AD , when it became a trading centre and port for people and goods from the Continent . |
| 60 | Like other major echinoderm groups the geological record of the sea urchins goes back to the Ordovician . |