Example sentences of "back over the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back over the first decade of his regime , in a radio broadcast made to mark the tenth anniversary of the end of the Civil War , Franco crowed , |
| 2 | Stiff with weapons , fighting back over the same ground . |
| 3 | WHAT THE f— was that , asked Britain 's disoriented youth , as a bonkers DJ from New York made a record out of bits of other people 's tunes — splicing up Queen , Blondie and Chic , cross-referencing lyrics and scra-scra-scratching the needle back over the same stretch of vinyl . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When you have finished , go back over the whole list and circle those four or five things that you would like to work on for yourself over the next week or so . |
| 6 | And the ‘ golden age ’ is there once more : glimmering in the distance , just out of sight , back over the next hill , twenty years ago , ‘ before the war ’ . |
| 7 | Then I laid a paler colour into the gaps left for the highlights and took it back over the previous work as well to unify the colour . |
| 8 | As Annie adjusted the nappies under the wriggling body , she glossed back over the previous week . |
| 9 | He wound his way back over the leaf-strewn grass like a toy duck . |
| 10 | Lightly fold one half of the dough back over the rolling pin , then carefully transfer to the tin . |
| 11 | Look back over the last week and count the number of " risk-decisions " you or your team took . |
| 12 | Before answering them , just just spend a minute thinking back over the last week . |
| 13 | The brothers were literally run out of town and back over the English border . |
| 14 | ‘ Thacker , who was the sort of swimmer who needed a Mae West to stay afloat in his bath , battled his burning Hurricane back over the Maltese coast at about 6,000 feet , he then pulled his hood back , rolled her and baled out . |
| 15 | I asked as Reid pulled the sheet back over the little girl . |
| 16 | Executive Support Manager Allan Paterson looks back over the TOP Programme as it has progressed at Hunterston and considers some of its achievements . |
| 17 | They trekked round the side of the house and started a weary trail back over the moon-grey lawn , their feet dragging dark channels through the dew . |
| 18 | A January president 's page provides an ideal opportunity to look both back over the past year and forwards to the new . |
| 19 | Thinking back over the past year , a wasted year , a year out of her life , she found it quite incomprehensible now to understand how she had allowed a no-good rat like Ryan to almost destroy her . |