Example sentences of "go back [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The recorded history of the country goes back 5000 years to the first known pharaohs ; and though for 2000 years there had been waves of invaders bringing one foreign ruler after another , for most of the peasants ( the fellahin ) life continued much as it had for centuries , regulated as much by the Nile and the miracle of its annual flood , as by successive new masters . |
| 32 | Has charm , but worries too much — the sort of person who locks the back door and then goes back three times to check . |
| 33 | The relationship between the two goes back three years to when NCR built its Systems Manager product on NetLabs ' first-generation product , NetLabs/Manager . |
| 34 | Her history goes back 140 years . |
| 35 | The iceberg is the result of a rapid rise in vehicle theft by young persons which goes back some time . |
| 36 | It goes back 50 years . |
| 37 | And er we did n't actually go in , but I 'd love to go back one day and have a look , |
| 38 | Some staff felt they needed to go back one stage and ask why a formula was a good idea in the first place . |
| 39 | What we are trying to argue for is to try to prevent the cost , the pain , the hurt that is experienced after a divorce by alerting people to the fact that a divorce wo n't solve all their problems , it will transfer one set of problems for another and our great concern in this report is to go back one step , not just to speak to people who are experiencing hurt , but in the hope that we can say something before it reaches the stage that it had reached when they came to you . |
| 40 | We 've to go back fourteen miles , we 've come fourteen and we 've to go back fourteen miles . |
| 41 | We 've to go back fourteen miles , we 've come fourteen and we 've to go back fourteen miles . |
| 42 | So I said , we done all that , and then we 'd to go back fourteen miles . |
| 43 | I think , yes we 're going to have to go back that way . |
| 44 | Yeah , there is a oh to go back that way ? |
| 45 | I 'll have to go back some day . |
| 46 | And er I 've got to go back next week for a sort of check up and I mean I suppose that 'll continue for weeks to come . |
| 47 | In fact , if they do have a complaint , it 's that they would probably like me to go back full time — which is very nice to know ! ’ |
| 48 | A useful starting point is to go back twenty years to a time when computers were still huge , unfriendly devices demanding air-conditioned environments and costing millions . |
| 49 | The third one goes I wan na go back million times better , a million times better ! |
| 50 | Historical The purpose of an historical grammar is to trace the development of the structure of a language back to its origins , which can go back many centuries . |
| 51 | ‘ We 'll go back that way . |
| 52 | When you talk about this split , fifty-fifty , could we go back that way . |
| 53 | I think that the stones will go back one day . |
| 54 | Perhaps she would go back one day . |
| 55 | ‘ Look , I 'll go back one day . |
| 56 | Well could n't , could she , could she just go back one page and let's us see what it was she wants . |
| 57 | I 'm young , I can go back any time I want . |
| 58 | I say it 's , you 've always got ta go back last night , last week |
| 59 | ‘ So they had a small secret do with just close friends , then went back four weeks later for the proper wedding . |
| 60 | I went back twelve times , but soon after my twelfth visit there was another terrible storm . |