Example sentences of "go back a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They 've discovered we 're the oldest family in the whole county , going back a long way ! |
| 4 | Yeah good old laugh , I remember my scout motto , I promise that I 'll do my best and do my duties its going back a long , long way brother . |
| 5 | well that 's going back a long time , is n't it ? |
| 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 | Iron working in the area goes back a long way . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She paused , then added , ‘ It goes back a long way . ’ |
| 10 | Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | For BP , involvement in the region goes back a long way . |
| 13 | ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’ |
| 14 | The saying , one law for them and another for us , goes back a long way . |
| 15 | This is a view which goes back a long way , at least as far as the time of the Radcliffe Report in 1960 . |
| 16 | ‘ His family goes back a long way . ’ |
| 17 | Ah … well this goes back a LONG time … well back to 1980 I think . |
| 18 | However , social historians say couples having non-penetrative sex goes back a long way . |
| 19 | Goes back a long way I 'm afraid . |
| 20 | I said , well , I , there must be summat there , out there , she said no , he said , she said it goes back a long time . |
| 21 | so she goes back a long way . |
| 22 | Everyone knows that , it goes back a long way . |
| 23 | 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 ! |
| 24 | No I , I was just sort of erm A wondering and B wondering whether to go back a different way round and |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Let's go back a little bit . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Patrick Kelly and Frederick Flowers went back a long way . |
| 30 | After all , his links to Christian democracy went back a long way . |