Example sentences of "[noun pl] goes [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work of solicitors goes back to the 15th century and as time has gone on they have become increasingly influential . |
| 2 | The reputation of Vertus 's richly perfumed still red wines goes back to the fourteenth century ; in the seventeenth century these wines were favoured by William of Orange . |
| 3 | And much the same process of intensification at the edges goes on in The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ) , where another little boy is prevented by his possessive and emotionally repressed father from developing his relationship with a gardener . |
| 4 | Like other major echinoderm groups the geological record of the sea urchins goes back to the Ordovician . |
| 5 | Henry Maine 's insistence that there is a radical distinction between the status relationships of early , kinship-based , societies and the contract relationships of " modern " societies goes back to the 1860s . |
| 6 | The first indisputable evidence of the use of nailed horseshoes goes back to the ninth century . |