Object

• ye: And, hark ye, you will avoid debt, and bear in mind that your honor is a sacred thing.

• back: The film is not a lesson about life in the 50s, but a harking back, aimed at people who remember those times.

Used with why or when

• what: Hark what good sport is out of town to-day!

Modifying Another Word

• back: The " Famous " bit in fact harks back to the sponsors of the 1981 event: Famous Grouse whiskey.

• again: This again harks back to the key theme of data integration.

• still: Indeed, some gutter level tabloids are still harking on about Fergie being pushed out this summer.

• also: So I'm also harking back to an age of classic songwriting.

• not: We are not harking back to some mythical bygone age of policing.

• constantly: They ' constantly hark back to the golden age of their youth.

Preposition: in

• way: Her harmonies are contemporary and here they seem to hark back in an ingenious way to plainchant.