Example sentences of "with [noun pl] [v-ing] back " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | As the exodus proceeds , the sky becomes filled with birds wheeling back and forth . |
| 2 | Set in six acres of parkland , Ayton Hall is an elegant 19th-century house with foundations dating back to 1281 . |
| 3 | While shopkeepers in Skinnergate admitted deliveries had been difficult with drivers turning back , most supported the idea of traffic-free streets . |
| 4 | From the 1966 census , but with analyses pushing back to 1961 , several major studies have attempted to use a wide range of census data grouped in new and more functional ways to depict the spatial characteristics of the British population . |
| 5 | To understand the meaning of survival , stand beneath a maidenhair tree ( Ginkgo biloba ) or a dawn redwood ( Metasequoia glyptostoboides ) ; both are well represented in Trust gardens and both are ‘ living fossils ’ with pedigrees stretching back to the age of the dinosaurs . |
| 6 | A delightful village pub with traditions going back to the eighteenth-century . |
| 7 | It was written by Moshe Aumann of the Israel Academic Committee on the Middle East and its 24 pages are sprinkled with quotations stretching back a hundred years — from Mark Twain and Lamartine to Lord Milner and the 1937 Palestine Royal Commission — all of which assert that Palestine was a land of brigandage , destitution and desert before the mass immigration of Jews in the late 1930s . |
| 8 | It certainly begins to seem as though the materialist philosophy of the last few decades in the West was a myth just like any other , now that science is getting so weird , what with particles travelling back in time , and the fantastic strangeness of the new cosmology and chaos theory ( all those pretty Mandelbrot sets , and stuff about butterflies in China causing storms over the Atlantic ties in perfectly with the New Spirituality ) . |
| 9 | Part of a coffee grinder is also understood to have been found in the house along with newspapers dating back to the beginning of May . |
| 10 | The Pepperers was one of the oldest guilds in London with records dating back to 1180 . |
| 11 | This chamber was the muniment room of the Chancery and the Exchequer with records dating back centuries . |
| 12 | One of the country 's foremost insurance underwriters , with roots dating back to 1720 and currently handles assets exceeding £8,500 million , Guardian Royal Exchange has an excellent reputation for courteous and prompt service . |
| 13 | But it went on to slam British Rail for using ancient commuter trains with parts dating back to the steam age . |