Example sentences of "to look [adv prt] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Castle was faintly lit by the soft light of the moon , and Grainne , pausing to look down over the courtyard through a small side window , saw how the countryside was bathed in radiance . |
| 2 | In the week after the election we asked our panel to look back Over the whole campaign and tell us how useful they had found television , the press , and other sources for : ( 1 ) helping decide what party leaders and personalities were really like ; ( 2 ) keeping them informed about the issues ; and ( 3 ) helping them decide how to vote . |
| 3 | The manner of Charlie 's death in this particular incarnation , coupled with the way in which he is able to look back over his earlier experiences no doubt contributed a lot to the fate of Eliot 's Phlebas , |
| 4 | I only have to look back over my own words to see the ups and downs of my own struggle . |
| 5 | The object of bereavement work with the elderly can be more one of continuing supportive intervention and understanding the old person 's need to look back over the past years and relationships than of expecting them to ‘ work through ’ their grief to its resolution . |
| 6 | In splinters of thought , unconnectedly , I began to look back over the past three weeks . |
| 7 | This is the process by which the manager sets aside perhaps an hour per year to talk privately to each adviser , to look back over the year and forward to the next and discuss any concerns that the manager and adviser may have . |
| 8 | Somehow , with the glasses on , she felt compelled to look back over her shoulder all the time . |
| 9 | You only have to look back over what 's er happened over the last few years in terms of for example O S Two , Microsoft Windows , a variety of Unix , and you 'll see that technologies will come along and however sound a decision you make at one point in time the market circumstances and potentially mean that what was right for you then not the right . |
| 10 | She felt the boat accept his weight — without nearly tipping — but she refused to look back over her shoulder at him . |
| 11 | Well they were chronicles , in a sense , erm there were chronicles very frequently written by interested parties , and in the case of Clarendon 's History , it was really an attempt to look back over some experiences which he himself had had , and in a way it is a , a , a classic of its kind . |
| 12 | He had no wish to look out over the Shatt al-Arab , the narrow glistening strip that divided his country from the Islamic Republic of Iran . |
| 13 | From Middenheim 's many tall towers it is possible to look out over the Great Forest to the south and the Drakwald to the west , a carpet of treetops stretching in every direction save eastwards , where the rising Middle Mountains burst from the forest floor , tall and jagged , and the colour of thunder clouds . |
| 14 | Every so often he slipped back to look out over the field and make sure that all was safe . |
| 15 | We drove back towards Titchwell Marsh , stopping to look out over the miles of salt marsh on the way . |
| 16 | The citadel is not open to visitors , but the hill it stands on is a good spot to zigzag your way up to , to look out over the town , the river and its basin , and the valleys that go off from it north , south , east and west . |
| 17 | Moving to look out over his command , he gave a series of orders into the phone . |
| 18 | She could imagine what he looked like : dark , slightly wavy hair and blue eyes , the right eyes to look out over the miles of sea all around him . |
| 19 | There were paintings stacked at the side of the room — whether finished or not , she did not know — but the thing that was most touching , the thing that stopped her forward momentum was a chair by the lower window , obviously placed to look out over the valley and the distant forest . |
| 20 | She turned to look out over the battlements again and raised her voice just as the sun broke through . |