Example sentences of "[verb] over backwards [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our experience here has been quite unlike that of the Shanghai group last year , in that everyone seems to have fallen over backwards to make the course unpolitical . |
| 2 | " They have a first class officer who has leant over backwards to establish a low profile in dealing with immigrants . " |
| 3 | … We bend over backwards to do the thing [ properly ] … but what happens in practice — do we mean it ? |
| 4 | The whole incident was a very sore point with my crew , who had worked very hard for long hours on this one , and it was a classic illustration of how our laws often seem to lean over backwards to protect the lawbreakers . |
| 5 | For several years we have been leaning over backwards to avoid the use of the forbidden word , instructing the population at large that it is more dead than the dodo and deleting it from our titles with abandon . |