Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that goes back to the early days of silage . |
| 2 | This goes back to the very infancy of the cinema , when the camera was hand-cranked and therefore almost instantly variable in speed . |
| 3 | This goes back to the days when there were hop gardens at the rear of the pub , and picking was done by gipsy families ( shant being an old gipsy word , meaning to drink ) . |
| 4 | This harks back to the foreclosure issue . |
| 5 | This harks back to the debate in Chapter 6 as to the transferability of concepts and systems which originate in the commercial world to the NHS without modification . |
| 6 | I hope that this gets back on the road because clearly people are starting to put things in the proper places for recycling . |
| 7 | Most of this falls back into the sea , as rain or snow , but 100 000 cubic kilometres of it falls on land . |
| 8 | This relates back to the discussion of issues of conceptualization in section 2.2 . |
| 9 | Erm so you 've either got you know the , the , the sort of or the old people , or you 've got the young people , and that reaches back down the age range into things like child abuse which is now , you know , very er much er on the agenda . |
| 10 | Now in a sentence in the Independent and the Times and other periodicals you would find there are more words of three and four syllables than in the tabloids , but that gets back to the clarity index again . |
| 11 | Yeah but again I think it all goes back to the script does n't it ? |
| 12 | It all refers back to the lack of acceptance of women in the society . |
| 13 | Tory group leader Coun John Hale said : ‘ It all stems back to the early days when people were encouraged not to pay and the momentum has built up from this . ’ |
| 14 | It all comes back to The Wedding Present 's common sense attitude and approach . |
| 15 | It all comes back to the question of what meaning is to be given to the definition of ‘ company ’ in the context in which it is used ? |
| 16 | Neil Miller , the dealing manager , was critical of this manoeuvre , saying of the dealer : " He could be doing four or five deals back in the office . |
| 17 | It first comes back in the first line of verse three when the tourists are being described as ‘ clucking contentedly ’ . |
| 18 | This in particular goes back to the issue of being told what the judiciary have recommended . |
| 19 | Participating in a traditional bloody ritual called the grynd , that dates back over the centuries , Faroe Islanders each year herd large schools of pilot whales into shallow waters and then , with man and whale alike thrashing in red blood-stained water , the animals are gaffed , speared , or knifed to death . |
| 20 | Then , with a blitheness I had never associated with Pike , he stepped two paces back into the path of the oncoming truck . |
| 21 | Work again over same two stitches and put original two stitches back on the needles ; miss eight stitches ; repeat from * to end . |
| 22 | I carried the coffee jug and filter and two cups back into the living-room and put them down on my coffee table , which sounds posh but in fact it doubles as a dining table , poker table and ironing-board . |
| 23 | Now that comes back to the question is , are salesman born or are they made ? |
| 24 | But if that comes back on the sixteenth , is that , is that what you 're saying , yeah ? |