Example sentences of "[verb] back over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the provision of public housing had been established as a principle in rural areas by 1939 — by itself no mean achievement when one looks back over the history of rural housing — the results of twenty years of legislation were a disappointment . |
| 2 | Executive Support Manager Allan Paterson looks back over the TOP Programme as it has progressed at Hunterston and considers some of its achievements . |
| 3 | Nick Clark looks back over the Maxwell era . ) |
| 4 | As Annie adjusted the nappies under the wriggling body , she glossed back over the previous week . |
| 5 | Helen had scrambled back over the wall . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Shep , apparently well satisfied , wandered back over the grass and collapsed in a cool patch where an apple tree threw its shade over the grass ; head on paws he waited in comfort for his next victim , |
| 8 | They seemed to have everything in command at Pickie on Saturday , but let the BLI come storming back over the last few ends to win on three of the four rinks . |
| 9 | She could n't resist the challenge of swimming back over the tide when the boys suggested it . |
| 10 | Just finally looking back over a career that spans now five decades , is there anything you 'd have done differently over the years ? |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | We have taken various risks looking back over the years , like Wapping . |
| 13 | Looking back over the years , the initial aim of creating awareness has been substantially achieved . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Looking back over the Birthday Scheme Register , there are gaps in some people 's giving for some months . |
| 16 | Looking back over the last two years , portraits and townscapes , in Berlin or in other locations , predominate . |
| 17 | Looking back over the years at the relative strengths of Japan versus the US in the semiconductor industry — a polarisation that will always make the news in Japan — during the 1970s , the US had an advantage , Grove said , which faded in the 1980s when Japanese manufacturing disciplines , just-in-time and its clearly superior semiconductor manufacturing equipment led to the Japanese gaining the upper hand , particularly in memory chips . |
| 18 | At last she said slowly , ‘ What I mean is , looking back over the past is always a bit sad , even if what you 're remembering is happy times , because it 's over and done . |
| 19 | Looking back over the season it seems to me supporters can have little cause for complaint . |
| 20 | Looking back over the last 19 years he said : ‘ Having had the opportunity to set up and develop the education service in Lothian has been enormously challenging and satisfying and I believe it is an education service of good quality with many forward-looking policies now established . |
| 21 | Indeed , looking back over the years , I have become surprised , not that people murder each other but that , given our love of bloodshed , they do n't do it more often . |
| 22 | Anyway , looking back over the years I can imagine what that poor bastard at Smithfield felt . |
| 23 | 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 , |
| 24 | Looking back over the two games we made it extremely difficult for ourselves in Moscow . |
| 25 | The fears which had crawled back over the stockade of his new self were banished : he was unassailable on the rock of Hause Point — what could harm him but Death which here would be no great enemy ? |
| 26 | Naturally the wounded had to be got away first , but later that day a plane came back over the mountains , and we were lined up again , and told that we could take only a small amount of personal possessions . |
| 27 | And then came back over the bridge ? |
| 28 | ‘ In preparing this Address I had the opportunity to reflect back over the last thirty years , reliving those working days when wages were extremely low , working conditions poor and when in industry a person 's life was cheap . |
| 29 | There was the sound of a chair being pushed back over the floor linoleum . |
| 30 | The lips were drawn back over a row of small pointed teeth in a ghastly grimace , a shriek of pain or terror . |