Example sentences of "back over [art] " in BNC.

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1 Whilst the signaller busied himself with decoding the latest message from on high , the Troop Commander 's mind raced back over a fairly hectic three weeks , Which had taken the troop from Hameln ( of Pied Piper fame ) , the regiment 's home base on the River Weser , eastwards to the River Leine and north the River Aller , before swinging north-west to the mouth of the Weser in the Bremerhaven area .
2 To test this particular application of Procedure Audit , a monitoring process was established in a section of thirty persons , and the administrative assistant briefed to record the number of queries referred back over a period of two months .
3 The lips were drawn back over a row of small pointed teeth in a ghastly grimace , a shriek of pain or terror .
4 As I have described , she had consulted me many years back over a libel matter which I had discouraged her — unsuccessfully — from pursuing , with calamitous financial results ; but I was able to give her a little assistance in another matter which to some small extent repaired the damage arising from the first disaster .
5 In so doing the newcomers have contributed to the sense of urban encroachment on rural political affairs among farmers and landowners which goes back over a much longer period , and which has been associated with changes in the institutions of political control in the countryside : the gradual decline in the personalized and autocratic power of the locally resident squirearchy and the transfer of public administration to a more formal and impersonal framework of local government since local politics were first placed on a democratic footing in 1888 .
6 Another feat of walking was undertaken by Harry Baker , who having a brother in Hastings would , at the turn of the century , visit his brother walking there and back over a weekend .
7 Well , in the same way , you see , when we lent six thousand pounds , they paid up back over a ten year period .
8 When an old issue of bonds is approaching maturity , the Bank of England will probably enter the market to buy them back over a number of weeks or months , rather than waiting to the maturity date and then suddenly releasing a large amount of liquidity into the economy .
9 This will be cut back over a period of time .
10 ‘ They claim they can pay it back over a three to four-year period . ’
11 Just finally looking back over a career that spans now five decades , is there anything you 'd have done differently over the years ?
12 Henry cast his mind back over the evening .
13 Then he could think back over the rising and understand and admit its weaknesses and set himself to imagine a better future …
14 Said his friend-cum-mentor , Irving Layton , in looking back over the period , ‘ I had a very sharp feeling in the early fifties that poetry in Canada had come in from the cold and was starting to gain momentum . ’
15 We have taken various risks looking back over the years , like Wapping .
16 I clambered back over the wall , crossed the orchard and , as usual , entered H.Q by the back door .
17 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 .
18 ( f ) View Back over the Severn Valley to Bredon Hill .
19 Charlie 'd said he wanted to phone Lilian and when I come back over the road he was in a phone box .
20 They put something like 30,000 Chinese refugees back over the border each year and it was a custom of international law that such immigrants are received back , she said .
21 The Army was more ambivalent : while welcoming the end of National Service and the return to ‘ real soldiering ’ with a regular army , the Army Council looked askance at the loss of 51 regiments , 17 of which were infantry battalions with battle honours stretching back over the centuries .
22 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 .
23 He hoiked it back over the fence and pelted down the hill .
24 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 .
25 Then , when it is ridden in the show ring , or it sees something possibly threatening , its anxiety peaks — it promptly stands on its hind legs or pulls its tongue back over the bit .
26 In splinters of thought , unconnectedly , I began to look back over the past three weeks .
27 She would take the long route back over the desolate flats .
28 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 .
29 On his feet were huge settee springs and he bounced onto the grassy ground then high into the air and back over the wall again .
30 When he did , shouting and screaming , they tried to grab hold of him but only succeeded in ripping off his jacket sleeve as he bounced back over the wall .
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