Example sentences of "go back [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | so she goes back a long way . |
| 32 | Everyone knows that , it goes back a long way . |
| 33 | This awareness goes back a long time , and to Lace it we need to leave the field of folklore and go back into the realms of ancient philosophy . |
| 34 | Ah … well this goes back a LONG time … well back to 1980 I think . |
| 35 | I said , well , I , there must be summat there , out there , she said no , he said , she said it goes back a long time . |
| 36 | The need to catch whales goes back a thousand years or more in Japanese history . |
| 37 | One of my favourite memories of her goes back a few years to when she was playing Martina Navratilova in New England . |
| 38 | It is not necessary to go back a hundred years , however , in order to discover a London haunted by unusually similar fears about the leniency of the law and the terrors of the night . |
| 39 | Erm , just to go back a wee bit to the thing about th the image and and the fight that we have on our hands er , to actually break into the media , I do n't , I think people underestimate the control an and er the feeling that men have that it 's their game and we 're not gon na take it away from them ! |
| 40 | We have to go back a little way to remember that in 1976 they presided over the most savage cuts ever imposed on the national health service . |
| 41 | No I , I was just sort of erm A wondering and B wondering whether to go back a different way round and |
| 42 | But if you thought about the order that you test , then , if something does n't work , you may only have to go back a few steps and re-test . |
| 43 | To understand how these families , regarded by their Orcadian neighbours as good , clean-living people , came to be at the centre of such serious allegations , it is necessary to go back a few years . |
| 44 | Let's go back a little way , between the woods , and have a scratch near that oak tree there — just by that white patch of stitchwort . |
| 45 | That the , that the erm , right , erm , you can go back a fair ways earlier and already find people thinking that you can be transported from one body to another , or even from one species to another . |
| 46 | Let's go back a little bit . |
| 47 | He 's got ta stick at it , y'know , because if … the discharger … [ says ] something unkind … you 've got ta go back the next week , the next week , and the next week . |
| 48 | who I was , and what I wanted , in a lazy , indifferent way , and … never ceased smoking while he heard me , and … , when I concluded , he took his pipe from his mouth , reversed it , and with the mouth-piece pointing to the door , he said , ‘ Very well , you can go back the same way you came . |
| 49 | And you knew what they were thinking , they were trying to weigh up whether they dare go across the stepping stones and you could tell by their faces and what they did of course when they decided no it was beyond them and they 'd play safe and they 'd go back the same way . |
| 50 | But it was years since she had felt at ease in any store which went back a long way from the street and therefore had no windows through which she could see daylight . |
| 51 | Although ‘ systematization ’ struck many of its critics in the West in 1988–89 as an insane novelty , in fact its roots went back a long way . |
| 52 | Patrick Kelly and Frederick Flowers went back a long way . |
| 53 | After all , his links to Christian democracy went back a long way . |
| 54 | You could indeed , you could indeed it it reinforces a point does n't it , so I mean I so went back a few times with the flipchart yesterday with things that we need to re reinforce yes ? |
| 55 | So I taught him that the first week , and the second week we went back and there was still only him , so it I taught him how to rewire a plug how to do it properly and er went back a third week and he was s still the only one there , so we went through it again , see if he 'd picked it up and he had n't so . |
| 56 | ‘ But when I went back the next day , I was told the two shops were no longer connected . |
| 57 | She went back the next day . |
| 58 | Collective self-help and co-operative ways of tackling problems go back a long way . |
| 59 | He and Ockrent go back a long way — to a jointly written screenplay for Paul MacCartney , which ‘ never saw the light of day — a damn shame , because it was a lot better than Broad Street . |
| 60 | The assumptions behind this unfortunate word go back a long way . |