Example sentences of "[noun pl] go back [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When engineers go back to the drawing board and create a new design , they do not necessarily throw away the ideas from the old design . |
| 2 | Its origins go back to the rediscovery of perspective in the Renaissance , and then to the architect 's drawings of the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | Despite the fact that spiders are all over the place in Dostoevsky , not just in Svidrigailov 's dirty bathhouse vision of Eternity , and that urban potted plants go back to the beginning in Poor People , we are here firmly inside Crime and Punishment in its abandoned first-person narrative form ( ‘ I am on trial and will tell all ’ ) : Petersburg evenings and their hanging summer light , noises from below , happy workmen , blessed ‘ living life ’ elsewhere , a lonely man in pain passing through gates , over thresholds , slipping up and down staircases , the buzzing By of Raskolnikov 's dream and his awakening , intense time-consciousness alternating with time-oblivion . |
| 4 | Would you believe it — a false start and the man with the red flag is there to make sure all the eggs go back to the line . |
| 5 | Before the patients go back to the ward , they will pat their faces back into place and often ask for reassurance that no-one will be told . |
| 6 | ‘ But the difference now is that the profits go back into the game and the WRU are to be congratulated on their decisions to tap in to the funds that are available . ’ |
| 7 | At this point the straw bolsters go back into the windows and the outer door is shut and locked . |
| 8 | Champs ' plans go back in the melting pot |
| 9 | Our hosts go back along the jetty , |
| 10 | Booth 's survey also had an influence on a similar movement in the United States , though its roots go back to the middle of the nineteenth century when a number of small surveys on the " dangerous classes " were undertaken . |
| 11 | , whose science policy roots go back to the presidency of , retorts : ‘ Paternity is always to prove ’ . |
| 12 | Exactly why is unclear as the origins of these vineyards go back to the days of the Knights Templars . |