Example sentences of "[noun sg] takes [pron] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Controversy on this issue takes us back to the beginnings of literary theory : to Aristotle and Plato . |
| 2 | That mention of the desert takes us back to the territory traversed in The Waste Land , ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , and Ash-Wednesday . |
| 3 | The answer to this question takes us back to the very origins of the town in the middle years of the twelfth century . |
| 4 | This change takes us back to the UK position some five or so years ago . |
| 5 | No one could see Old Town Street , at Plymouth , without beginning at once to speculate about the significance of a name like this : and in fact the name takes us back to the very beginnings , to the poverty-stricken little Saxon village of farmers and fishermen , well down behind the Hoe , out of which this great naval city has grown . |