Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] look [adv prt] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's also important that we look back over the last ten years to how the N H S has been fundamentally changed as a consequence of Tory government policy towards it . |
| 2 | I hear a clattering in the air as McDunn gets out of the Jag and I look up over the trees into high , bright overcast . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This is clear if we look back over the years . |
| 5 | If we look back over the past twenty-five years or so , we can distinguish three main phases : |
| 6 | We have all sorts of remaining problems but by and large , if we look back over the past three four years , tremendous progress has been made . |
| 7 | When I look back over the years I see impatience as the great sin of life . |
| 8 | I think it 'll come but , well , we 're rather impatient I think when you look back over the past hundred years you see some massive erm changes which are quite unprecedented . |
| 9 | ‘ Of course I have , ’ she answered , her gaze unconsciously wistful as she looked out over the smooth water of the lake . |
| 10 | The day before our return , as we looked out over the battlements , we saw a succession of thick black clouds driving slowly in over the sand flats and camel grass . |
| 11 | John Howard , acutely aware of such slippage , argued that good staff and external vigilance were essential if reform efforts were to be sustained , but this view , as we look back over the last two centuries , may have been unduly optimistic . |
| 12 | There , as they looked out over the River Thames , he ordered a meal and demanded that she tell him her life story . |
| 13 | As he looked out over the familiar landscape that spring day , the poetic miracles which had begun in the lime-tree bower were coming to an end . |