Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impression given in both plans is of an exceptionally well proportioned and attractive building placed rather further back from the Carrickblacker Road than the present church . |
| 2 | But colonialism , the tensions caused by a feudal economy 's reaction to capitalism and finally the effects of capitalism itself have all been imposed on a social structure which can be traced much further back . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't know how you do it , ’ said Jack , as I moved somewhat magisterially back to my seat . |
| 4 | There is often a tendency to stand too far back in an attempt to approach footstraps : this makes lots of fast-sounding gurgling noises in the water behind you but does nothing for board speed . |
| 5 | After landing , the stick should be moved slowly right back to increase the tail load , unless there is good reason to deliberately steer the glider to one side . |
| 6 | Yet it is ironical that the most startling changes in industrial chemistry came in dyestuffs , because the fundamental discoveries in this field had been made as far back as 1857 by an Englishman , and England and France dominated aniline dye production until 1870 . |
| 7 | Although he may not care to remember as far back as a fortnight ago , does he recollect that every candidate in the Kincardine and Deeside by-election , including his own , expressed opposition to the opt-out proposals ? |
| 8 | The library was large and , rather than hunt through the endless rows of volumes dating as far back as 1530 , she had sought the help of the librarian . |
| 9 | In the English language literature , Malcolm ( 1938 , although apparently much of this work was written as far back as 1910 ) , Glover ( 1946 ) , Rounce ( 1949 ) and Hyams ( 1952 ) alongside those mentioned in the quotation above , are all striking , original works , marked by their intimate knowledge of local agricultural practices and the general processes of soil erosion . |
| 10 | The first phase of his theorizing was represented by a group of essays , including the celebrated Opera and Drama , that were written as far back as 1849–51 , before much of his most distinctive music was yet composed . |
| 11 | The nursery rhyme then , comes from Tommy Thumb 's Pretty Song Book from around seventeen forty-four , and the division of bags , one for the master , one for the dame , one for the little boy who where wherever he is , lives down the lane , is said to refer to the export tax on wool , which was imposed as far back as twelve seventy-five , making even the outsider sheep of value . |
| 12 | The use of finger shapes to convey meaning can be seen even further back in Christian art where ‘ secret ’ signs were available for God , the Trinity , and so on . |
| 13 | I made it back to the car and drove very slowly back to my own apartment . |
| 14 | ‘ XYZ ’ is rooted much further back down the racks of dog-eared discs in the second-hand shops where Moose once worked , back to C&W , maverick balladeers and songwriters like Jim Webb , Lee Hazelwood , Gram Parsons and Fred Neil ( whose ‘ Everybody 's Talkin' ’ gets charmingly worked over here ) rather than soundscapers . |
| 15 | As I believe that you both did , when you were my age — if you can remember so far back — but I knew you would prevent me from doing so if I told you the truth . ’ |
| 16 | Cecilia turned somewhat fearfully back and saw that the man and the bear had gone to the far end of the coach where a woman not much younger than herself sat alone . |
| 17 | The parish had been enclosed as far back as 1761 — two generations earlier — but Alken 's view still gives a general impression of wide spaces and open views . |
| 18 | This public assertion of my childhood 's usefulness stands side by side with the painful personal knowledge , I think the knowledge of all of us , going as far back as the story lets us , that it would have been better if it had n't happened that way , had n't happened at all . |
| 19 | They were in fact social outcasts , to whom documentary references can be found going as far back as the thirteenth century . |
| 20 | The roots of German economic unification lie as far back as 1818 , when Prussia unified her own tariff system . |
| 21 | One of those few is Bruce Dickey , as gramophiles may remember as far back as 1981 from the album of ‘ Virtuoso Ornamentation around 1600 ’ by Schola Cantorum Basiliensis ( Harmonia Mundi , 9/81 — nla ) . |
| 22 | Well , according to designers showing their collections for next autumn on the Paris runways this week , it 's going even further back in time . |
| 23 | The importance of getting a good start now becomes obvious , since if you fall only a few metres behind in the first minute after the start you fall into everyone else 's dirty wind and drop even further back . |
| 24 | I do n't have to look too far back in there when we started this whole process , four or five years of throwing it all up in the air to say that I felt every pupil could comment in some way , something that they had enjoyed , something they felt they 'd been successful at , something they felt they found difficult , something that had pleased them , surely every child could comment on wo , if it 's just one of those things |
| 25 | She began to walk very slowly back towards the house . |
| 26 | If he could remember that far back . |
| 27 | ‘ How can I remember that far back ? ’ |
| 28 | oh can I remember that far back |
| 29 | I do n't know if I can remember that far back . |
| 30 | Played mostly right back last season but can also play in central defence or midfield . |