Example sentences of "further back to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In only a very few pages , we have left the twentieth century far behind and discovered that these two descend from the Lombardic heroes mentioned in the Old English poem Widsith ( Aelfwin and Eadwin ) ; and since Aelfvin means ‘ Elf-friend ’ , we are not surprised to find ourselves drifting further back to the times when elves still walked the earth , before Numenor ( the Atlantis of the Tolkien mythology ) had sunk beneath the waves . |
| 2 | The British tanks pushed them further back to the Hindenberg Line . |
| 3 | How could ‘ depth ’ be created when you had nothing to reach further back to ? |
| 4 | Think further back to the famous Oxford three-quarter line of Iain Smith , Phil Macpherson , George Aitken and A.C. Wallace . |
| 5 | If you are unlucky and suffer a bad frost-burn , be prepared to prune the stems further back to the next dormant eye , whatever its direction , and whatever the date . |
| 6 | Vico and Rousseau simply took the biblical imagery one step further back to a pre-Adamite , non-rational , world of peace and innocence . |
| 7 | A bit further back to Uni days . |