Example sentences of "[to-vb] back over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 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 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 . |
| 4 | In splinters of thought , unconnectedly , I began to look back over the past three weeks . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But suddenly he seemed to blossom out and take weight , like a ghost deciding to cross back over the frontier from the land of death . |
| 7 | Every diplomatic effort was made to get him and his army to retire back over the frontier , but without success . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll have a lot of time to go back over the past in the coming years , I suppose , wonder whether I made the right choices at the right time . ’ |
| 9 | Leonora forced herself to go back over the dream sequence in every terrifying detail . |
| 10 | Spruce allowed his mind to run back over the meeting with the Bishop , Archdeacon and Miss Braithwaite . |
| 11 | But in the sweet and gentle light of day , she began to face herself , to think back over the conversation she had with ‘ Miguelito ’ , and to try and work out just how besotted she had sounded to him . |
| 12 | BBN last escaped the axe in 1986 and was subsequently revamped under its current editor Jennifer Creswick , but it has never been far from the blade as the Council has been forced to cut back over the years . |