Example sentences of "back over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry cast his mind back over the evening . |
| 2 | Then he could think back over the rising and understand and admit its weaknesses and set himself to imagine a better future … |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | We have taken various risks looking back over the years , like Wapping . |
| 5 | I clambered back over the wall , crossed the orchard and , as usual , entered H.Q by the back door . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ( f ) View Back over the Severn Valley to Bredon Hill . |
| 8 | Charlie 'd said he wanted to phone Lilian and when I come back over the road he was in a phone box . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He hoiked it back over the fence and pelted down the hill . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In splinters of thought , unconnectedly , I began to look back over the past three weeks . |
| 16 | She would take the long route back over the desolate flats . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The brothers were literally run out of town and back over the English border . |
| 21 | Looking back over the years , the initial aim of creating awareness has been substantially achieved . |
| 22 | After their terribly exciting bridge crossing , they hopped back over the shallows and headed back to their mini-van . |
| 23 | Since the death of Tito in 1980 , and with the growing economic crisis , which is felt by Serbians to have particularly affected them ( although there is , in fact , little evidence that Serbia 's relative position has fallen in comparison with Yugoslavia as a whole ) , a growing number of Serb intellectuals have been looking back over the past and asking themselves whether Serbia was discriminated against under ‘ Titoist ’ rule . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | When I look back over the years I see impatience as the great sin of life . |
| 26 | Start by thinking back over the experience and selecting a part of it ( a 15 minute period or so ) which was significant or important to you . |
| 27 | She could n't resist the challenge of swimming back over the tide when the boys suggested it . |
| 28 | If we look back over the record of the last twenty years in our ten countries , we may detect certain common trends , unspectacular , but nevertheless significant . |
| 29 | They drew the eye to One Tree Hill , now forested over , and from this clump , at Chested , he could look back over the top of Chiddingstone Castle to another clump at Mark Beech beyond . |
| 30 | I thought back over the times I had watched the ploughing ; in late autumn at the potato harvest , and in the summer , slopping through the flooded paddy fields . |