Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] back over " in BNC.
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| 1 | To test this particular application of Procedure Audit , a monitoring process was established in a section of thirty persons , and the administrative assistant briefed to record the number of queries referred back over a period of two months . |
| 2 | Babur looks back over his shoulder . |
| 3 | We have taken various risks looking back over the years , like Wapping . |
| 4 | Why should the people of Lambeth be subjected to savage bills because their local authority fails to collect rents , the community charge , and even outstanding rates arrears going back over many years ? |
| 5 | Well they were chronicles , in a sense , erm there were chronicles very frequently written by interested parties , and in the case of Clarendon 's History , it was really an attempt to look back over some experiences which he himself had had , and in a way it is a , a , a classic of its kind . |
| 6 | Whilst the signaller busied himself with decoding the latest message from on high , the Troop Commander 's mind raced back over a fairly hectic three weeks , Which had taken the troop from Hameln ( of Pied Piper fame ) , the regiment 's home base on the River Weser , eastwards to the River Leine and north the River Aller , before swinging north-west to the mouth of the Weser in the Bremerhaven area . |
| 7 | Spruce allowed his mind to run back over the meeting with the Bishop , Archdeacon and Miss Braithwaite . |
| 8 | At night , the Verdun sky resembled a ‘ stupendous Aurora Borealis ’ , but by day the only splashes of colour that one French soldier-artist could find were the rose tints displayed by the frightful wounds of the horses lying scattered about the approach routes , lips pulled back over jaws in the hideousness of death . |
| 9 | Yes it has , and as my mind races back over nearly four decades I can not help but smile , how is it possible that everything has changed so much ? |
| 10 | She sipped her ale , then frowned as her mind skittered back over the conversation . |
| 11 | His grey cloak was of pure wool pushed back over his shoulders , yet it was his face which attracted me . |
| 12 | Aunt Louise 's glance slid back over her shoulder to see if I had appreciated the window ; I nodded and smiled back . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | Executive Support Manager Allan Paterson looks back over the TOP Programme as it has progressed at Hunterston and considers some of its achievements . |
| 15 | Heart pounding as she burned with embarrassment , Polly saw Giles glance back over his shoulder and wink . |
| 16 | As they hurried away he saw Suzi look back over her shoulder , as he 'd known she would . |
| 17 | Charles Briant glanced back over his shoulder . |
| 18 | Eva thought back over all the times her mother had encouraged her . |
| 19 | Tom Fish looked back over his shoulder with a grin and a wink for his friends as his hand slid down the curve of her back to rest on the plump roundness of her buttocks . |
| 20 | Judge hits back over sex jibe |
| 21 | The Army was more ambivalent : while welcoming the end of National Service and the return to ‘ real soldiering ’ with a regular army , the Army Council looked askance at the loss of 51 regiments , 17 of which were infantry battalions with battle honours stretching back over the centuries . |
| 22 | I suppose the expression rolls off the tongue — the three As — and , of course , the meeting goes back over one hundred years . |
| 23 | As a whole , though , they do suggest an author looking back over his own work and trying to reduce it to order . |
| 24 | Look at the implications looking back over it when when Fire and Public Protection had produced their report , but certainly the things are and it 's quite clear that we all know this case in my particular the river has been constricted by some thoroughly bad planning decisions and development control districts and they 're paying them that the owners are paying the penalty for that erm reducing the ditches and er building over them and okay we 've got problems erm so er there are structure plan implications erm which I do n't I think we should miss and if we say that really building on a is a principle well then we should try it right into the structure plan or looking at local plans for approval that we actually look at this a little bit more carefully . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Josie glanced back over her shoulder , not at the mirror but at Lucy herself . |
| 27 | Tuthanach slingshot whizzed and whirred , and two of the horsemen fell back over the mounts ' haunches . |
| 28 | Binkie stared back over her shoulder and Melissa could have sworn that , behind his impassive expression , there was a smirk on his furry face . |
| 29 | Salisbury listened , turned to the heralds in discussion , and then without further remark went back over the ditches . |
| 30 | Patten hits back over China slur |