Example sentences of "go back a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , I C I , Ingaselectric , A E I , all the big firms , all the er coal mines , all the British Rail , well British Rail in those days , and these large firms trained large numbers of apprentices and then after the five years they tipped you out , I 'm sorry I 'm going back a long while , into what they call an improver status and then you could either come back to the firm or you could go , stay where you were . |
| 2 | If I 'm depressed at all it is that I think that you could make this process slightly less obtrusive and violent and spark-generating if there was more systematic analysis and discussion beforehand , going back a long way . |
| 3 | They 've discovered we 're the oldest family in the whole county , going back a long way ! |
| 4 | well that 's going back a long time , is n't it ? |
| 5 | It was like going back a hundred years . |
| 6 | You mentioned Christopher , what er the last time it 's , I 'm going back a little while , the last time I was talking with Janet he , she was a bit unhappy , I think he was in er a teaching practice at the time and she was wondering how he was going to go on . |
| 7 | Let me just show you what it says , just get it straight , right that 's the service analysis for September nineteen ninety-two , alright so we 're going back a few months . |
| 8 | Going back a few years , Treasure Hunting , January 1983 issue , contains an article concerning a button that had been found , and requested information on the unit mentioned . |
| 9 | Oh yes you 're going back a few years ! |
| 10 | Oh I , I , I , I 'd one you know , oh I 'd one up , oh I 'm going back a few years now |
| 11 | but that was an old woman 's tale really , that 's going back a few years ago |
| 12 | Going back a further generation , her sire 's parents both scored under 12 . |
| 13 | Iron working in the area goes back a long way . |
| 14 | She paused , then added , ‘ It goes back a long way . ’ |
| 15 | Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way . |
| 16 | The literature on the professions goes back a long way , but seems to have reached a peak in the 1960s and 1970s ( see , for example , Etzioni 1969 ; Jackson 1970 ) , perhaps because the professions were at an apogee of esteem at that point , before the attacks of Illich ( 1977 ) and others who , like Shaw many years before , accused them of establishing a ‘ radical monopoly ’ in the name of meeting people 's ‘ needs ’ . |
| 17 | For BP , involvement in the region goes back a long way . |
| 18 | ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’ |
| 19 | The saying , one law for them and another for us , goes back a long way . |
| 20 | This is a view which goes back a long way , at least as far as the time of the Radcliffe Report in 1960 . |
| 21 | ‘ His family goes back a long way . ’ |
| 22 | However , social historians say couples having non-penetrative sex goes back a long way . |
| 23 | Goes back a long way I 'm afraid . |
| 24 | so she goes back a long way . |
| 25 | Everyone knows that , it goes back a long way . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Ah … well this goes back a LONG time … well back to 1980 I think . |
| 28 | I said , well , I , there must be summat there , out there , she said no , he said , she said it goes back a long time . |
| 29 | The need to catch whales goes back a thousand years or more in Japanese history . |
| 30 | One of my favourite memories of her goes back a few years to when she was playing Martina Navratilova in New England . |