Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | We have a list of murders stretching back over the last two centuries for which you are responsible . ’ |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | I feel as if I have come to the end of a long list of jobs dating back over several months . |