Example sentences of "go [adv prt] to [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contracts of employment were unknown and I remember the gloom at home if Dad announced that the works were going on to short time . |
| 2 | Those who had time also diligently collected their most important legal documents — the deeds of ownership to property , the maps of their orange groves and fields , their tax returns and their identity papers going back to Ottoman times — and packed them into bags and tins along with family heirlooms and jewellery and their front door keys . |
| 3 | There is an even older architectural tradition , going back to Roman times . |
| 4 | " Yes , oysters — going back to Roman times . |
| 5 | Where the arable trail demonstrates how conservation and modern farming techniques can flourish side by side , Cow Wood , with a history going back to medieval times , emphasises the environmental importance of well-managed woodland and is a logical extension of the Bovingdon Hall concept . |
| 6 | The most important , perhaps , is freedom from the restrictive grasp of the ‘ all together now ’ class teaching system that goes back to Victorian times . |
| 7 | Its history goes back to Saxon times , and it contains several interesting historical buildings , and a peaceful marina , from which you can take a river cruise . |
| 8 | Goes back to Homeric times . ’ |
| 9 | But we do not have to go back to prehistoric times to witness the change in our diet . |
| 10 | I am not saying the road is not ancient , it is older than the age of the Pilgrims and could even go back to Neolithic times . |
| 11 | Glanville Jones thinks that they may go back to pre-Roman times in many cases ; June Sheppard has shown that the estate at Marden in Herefordshire , which has Roman settlements , a Saxon palace site , and a ninth-century minster on the site of the initial burial of St Ethelbert , was almost certainly the estate attached to Sutton Walls , the pre-Roman hillfort in the area which was reoccupied in post-Roman times ( Fig. 77 ) . |
| 12 | The Romans found an existing road pattern which went back to Neolithic times and which followed the natural corridors of movement suggested by the topography . |
| 13 | As abbot of St Denis , Suger was in charge of one of France 's oldest and most revered houses , whose connection with the ruling dynasty went back to Merovingian times . |
| 14 | The street was narrow , cobbled , full of old buildings which were joined together and went back to medieval times . |
| 15 | Often they have custody of borough archives , Quarter Session records , and the registers of baptisms , marriages and burials deposited by ancient parishes , some of whose records go back to Elizabethan times . |
| 16 | It is a small Stately Home mostly dating from the eighteenth century , but bits of it go back to Elizabethan times . |
| 17 | Freud 's own answer to this question was that , in part , it may be accounted for by the supposition of an ‘ archaic heritage ’ of unconscious memories which go back to primeval times . |