Example sentences of "back [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Go for the swim and the run and come back with precise time . |
| 2 | Going back into prehistoric time even these volumes were far exceeded by the eruption of Toba , yet another volcano in the very active Indonesian region . |
| 3 | YESTERDAY was Rogation Sunday , the rituals of which are very old and its roots go far back into pre-Christian times . |
| 4 | Washington even seemed prepared to go some way towards meeting the desire of the USSR to revise the treaties relating to the rights of passage by warships through the Straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean — an issue with a long and complicated history reaching back into tsarist times . |
| 5 | Of all these expanding emotions , the one which we call compassion , may have been the first to emerge and could be the one of greatest importance , but the origins of all of them could almost certainly be found far back in evolutionary time . |
| 6 | Back in prehistoric times , the river which we now call the Thames was created by rains falling on hilly ground on the western side of this country , and meandering lazily until it found its way into the sea on the eastern side of the continental peninsular which became an island by separating itself from the continent of Europe . |
| 7 | Then abruptly I am back in real time , bobbing up and down in the river , powerless against its current . |
| 8 | Back in Saxon times they were used as diuretics and were just one of dozens of herbs , plants and berries taken for medical purposes . |
| 9 | It was as if I were back in Roman times . |
| 10 | ‘ I mean , we have to show them we 're terribly trustworthy or something , show them that if we are allowed to wander off , we 'll wander back in good time . ’ |
| 11 | He made another foray to the bar and was back in quick time with another of the same . |
| 12 | NIGEL Carr is back in big time rugby — with a watching brief to help Ulster retain the inter-pro title . |
| 13 | The USA had no system of social security against the ravages of sickness or unemployment — no " dole " as in Britain , on which people could fall back in bad times . |
| 14 | The whole village was involved and there was a carefully laid down ritual which had long roots far back in medieval times . |
| 15 | Mr Currie said it was like being ‘ back in medieval times ’ , as he surveyed a table laden with kitchen knives , swords and home-made weapons including a rolling pin with spikes on the end . |
| 16 | The political police in the Soviet Union had a long history stretching back to tsarist times . |
| 17 | The whole Loch Tay area has a fascinating and rich history stretching back to prehistoric times , none of which I 'm prepared to share with you . |
| 18 | But we do not have to go back to prehistoric times to witness the change in our diet . |
| 19 | The earliest known glass mirrors date back to Greco-Roman times , and were found in the tombs at Arsinoe in Egypt . |
| 20 | More generally , they looked back to Carolingian times in their liturgical practice . |
| 21 | Garlic is one of the most widely used aphrodisiacs around the world , with a pedigree that stretches back to ancient times . |
| 22 | Its past activities included smuggling , lace-making and quarrying ; the latter dates back to Roman times . |
| 23 | The first written evidence of its existence as Siglestorne was in the Domesday Book , although recent archaeological excavations on Spring Field revealed the existence of a previous settlement which dated back to Roman times or earlier . |
| 24 | The village has an ancient history dating back to Roman times ( the remains of a Roman wall testify to this ) . |
| 25 | The TARDIS has brought the time-travellers back to Roman times — to 64 AD to be exact — and they have been holidaying in a deserted villa near a small town . |
| 26 | There is an even older architectural tradition , going back to Roman times . |
| 27 | " Yes , oysters — going back to Roman times . |
| 28 | Travel back to Victorian times . |
| 29 | The most important , perhaps , is freedom from the restrictive grasp of the ‘ all together now ’ class teaching system that goes back to Victorian times . |
| 30 | We are being led back to Victorian times . |