Example sentences of "go back [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Idealism has a long history in philosophy , going back at least to the Irish philosopher Berkeley , and it is sometimes attributed , as it was by Marx , to Plato . |
| 2 | Species superficially resembling Terebratula maxima may be found all over the world in rocks going back at least to the Jurassic period . |
| 3 | This new hawkish perspective builds upon a strand in US policy going back at least to Kennedy , which argues that the USA must possess a force structure that would enable a nuclear war to be fought and won ( Ikle , 1973 ) . |
| 4 | Chomsky and Sampson claim that this tree-like decomposition of a sentence into its parts is a feature common to all human language , and is indeed the basis upon which we determine the meaning of a sentence from the way it is built up out of its parts ( an insight going back at least to Frege ) . |
| 5 | But they represent a great slice of gardening history ( no plants , no gardens ) and provide us with a rich , exciting and often colourful tapestry of adventure and discovery going back at least several hundred years . |
| 6 | Fortunately , most local record offices contain an abundance of sources for local history , going back at least two hundred years . |
| 7 | The scope for disagreement between plaintiffs and defendants has been narrowed by the move by district registries to publish hourly rates going back at least five years . |
| 8 | Certainly , but then De Gaulle was only the most recent of a line of French national leaders , going back at least as far as Joan of Arc , who have seen in the English , through most of the centuries , their main enemy , whereas of course we did n't come across Germany internationally at all until within the last ninety years . |
| 9 | ‘ That typewriter 's going back at once , ’ he said inadequately . |
| 10 | No he was just saying it 's not worth going back on now . |
| 11 | Going back to both Standlake and erm Wheatley |
| 12 | Well again going back to when I started my time etcetera . |
| 13 | Going back to when you were on watch on the dredger over the weekends , did it ever feel lonely ? |
| 14 | Well er going back to when I started serving my time as an apprentice er I think I started with eleven shillings and I was there for about nine months when the manager come over and says to me he had been paying me short . |
| 15 | And going back to somewhere you have not been since you were a baby could be very exciting . |
| 16 | Election ‘ 92 : Going back to where the journey began |
| 17 | The daft thing was they were probably going back to where we 'd been working . |
| 18 | It did n't usually matter because there was always the alternative of going back to where we started and tighten the game up ’ . |
| 19 | Cos it 's sad in my opinion that going back to where we were several months ago because we set out out to attracting higher quality people paying them more money and we 've come back again to basically seeing the people who we saw in the first instance |
| 20 | So going back to where we came in . |
| 21 | I was an old London man myself , and at one time I was manager of the branch in Upper Thames Street — that 's going back to just after the war . |
| 22 | Erm but er going back to again , erm because er they 're analyzing now erm all benefits so they can reduce the . |
| 23 | This is revealed in texts going back to about 2000 BC , notably in the ‘ Sumerian King List ’ which begins with a sequence of eight kings , presumably fabulous , whose reigns add up to a total of 241,200 years ! |
| 24 | As for our own species , the oldest evidence , going back to possibly about 35,000 BC , reveals that the dead were not only equipped with weapons , tools , and ornaments but also with food , which must often have been in short supply among the living . |
| 25 | Are you going back to now ? |
| 26 | Then she 's coming home and then she 's going back over there about six o'clock till eight o'clock . |
| 27 | and I mean I 've got s it 's not as bad going back from here cos it 'll only be about a six hour then . |
| 28 | This goes back at least as far as Aristotle . |
| 29 | The tradition , which goes back at least 2,500 years , continued until the early part of this century . |
| 30 | The age of organ-building goes back at least to Louis the Pious , for whom a Venetian priest called George built an organ at Aachen in 826 , and it is reflected in the lively illustrations of organs in the Utrecht Psalter , a Reims manuscript of about 830 . |