Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] back over " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have taken various risks looking back over the years , like Wapping . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As a whole , though , they do suggest an author looking back over his own work and trying to reduce it to order . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Before answering them , just just spend a minute thinking back over the last week . |
| 7 | We have a list of murders stretching back over the last two centuries for which you are responsible . ’ |
| 8 | The girl pulled on her wrap and moved to the door looking back over her shoulder as she went and Paula was aware of the hostility in her gaze . |
| 9 | And today we have a contribution to make in terms of our history of free trade , our outward-looking attitude to the world , and the weight of our tradition of parliamentary and democratic government stretching back over the centuries — something unmatched by any of our partners , for some of whom the very concept of democracy is of recent origin . |
| 10 | With an illustrious past stretching back over more than a century and with no fewer than 30 Championships behind them the challenge for Yorkshire cricket in 1992 is to find a team that can live up to the tradition . |
| 11 | ‘ We have a running programme of consultation going back over the last two years , ’ she said . |
| 12 | Before that there was a string of flops stretching back over years ( ‘ Police Academy 4 ’ and ‘ King Solomon 's Mines ’ would have ended most careers ) . |
| 13 | One moved smoothly into position , its driver leaning back over his seat to unlock the rear door . |
| 14 | Sometimes a single boulder bounds and clatters down the scree pile , echoing loudly , sometimes a larger mass breaks away , sometimes the scree itself shifts and readjusts itself in a prolonged rattling clatter — a noise rather like the sea swashing back over pebbles . |
| 15 | I feel as if I have come to the end of a long list of jobs dating back over several months . |
| 16 | But Attenborough 's film uses the hackneyed cop-out of Chaplin looking back over his life with the editor of his biography ( Anthony Hopkins ) . |