Example sentences of "thinking back [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Before answering them , just just spend a minute thinking back over the last week . |
3 | Thinking back over the past year , a wasted year , a year out of her life , she found it quite incomprehensible now to understand how she had allowed a no-good rat like Ryan to almost destroy her . |
4 | For this print , I was thinking back to the patterns of light and shade created by strong sunlight . ’ |
5 | Looking at City at Southampton on Saturday and thinking back to the Everton sides that twice won the championship , Kendall appears just the man to implant the discipline and experience needed around some otherwise exciting talent . |
6 | Her hand was wet and she gripped the receiver tightly , thinking back to the night of the February dance and how the telephone was fixed to the wall beside the door . |
7 | She left him to pull herself up the bannisters to bed , thinking back to the inordinately exciting first summer when Comfort and Anthony had rented their house outside Oxford and she had fallen in love . |
8 | Only in small things so far but Dexter was sure , thinking back to the taut image of the man sitting on his sofa the previous night , that he was lying about bigger things as well . |
9 | We can better appreciate the conversion by thinking back to the philosopher Schopenhauer , with whose name Nietzsche was now so assiduously coupling Wagner 's as twin deities , dei maximi . |
10 | But I am thinking back to the days before the war — the ‘ 39–45 war in Europe , that is — when a reporter was actually expected to know the place he was writing about . |
11 | Oh I see yeah , yeah , I 'm thinking back to the wooden ones , yeah at school , you know the er , we use to have a shooting board |