Example sentences of "[v-ing] back on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a silence , while Hector , climbing back on the bed , nuzzled at her free hand . |
| 2 | When he took off on his return flight in a small twin-engined plane , one of the engines failed , and the pilot , whether by accident or design I do n't know , did a swift turn and made an emergency landing back on the airfield , missing the Control Tower by about three feet . |
| 3 | Spencer by now was n't very pleased , Elstree were n't very thrilled about him landing back on the runway either , and with the hydraulic fluid gone , there were no flaps either . |
| 4 | Peter O'Toole 's happiest hour as the Soho scribe looking back on a mis-spent life . |
| 5 | Looking back on a memorable 1991 , 26-year-old Roebuck thinks he was a very fortunate man . |
| 6 | It always seems odd , looking back on a turning-point in life , that bells did not ring and warning hooters go . |
| 7 | LOOKING back on Northern Ireland as it was when the troubles started is uncannily like looking back on a silent movie . |
| 8 | When the twelfth-century bard , Cynddelw , recalled ‘ the clash of Powys … with Oswald ’ , he was looking back on an episode which had considerable significance not only for the Welsh but also for the Mercians . |
| 9 | Like most girls of my generation , I managed to graduate from High School with my virginity intact , ’ wrote Janet Harris looking back on the Fifties in The Prime of Ms America . |
| 10 | Thus County Armagh Free Presbyterians , looking back on the explosives cases and the charges laid against Free Presbyterians , recollected that far from supposing these people might be guilty and hence in need of church discipline , they assumed their innocence and believed that the charges were just another part of the plot to discredit Paisleyism . |
| 11 | ‘ Looking back on the time when I was really big , around 1979 , I was the saddest and most miserablest I 've ever been . |
| 12 | A schools ' video and a book are being produced , looking back on the history of the LGC . |
| 13 | Looking back on the deal , Chapman believed that ‘ one of the best bargains I ever made was the most costly one . ’ |
| 14 | Looking back on the scant evidence we have to assume that , along with the guilty , some innocent men and women went to their deaths , despite their confessions . |
| 15 | Looking back on the period when he was seriously searching as a fourteen-year-old ( and for a man with a mind of Russell 's breadth this was no ‘ mere adolescence ’ ) , he described it like this : |
| 16 | Looking back on The Graduate , I have no sense of achievement . |
| 17 | Looking back on the course , Kevin , now 39 , denies that there were any particular problems in being older than the majority of his contemporaries . |
| 18 | Looking back on the community 's experience of opposition , she reflected ‘ If we had got going earlier , and got support from all the locals , if we had n't waffled for ages , and demonstrated properly , and been more vocal — we had difficulty raising money , we just could n't raise money — we would have made an impact . |
| 19 | Looking back on the fall , he said : ‘ I knew he was going down 20 yards before it happened . |
| 20 | A former sales manager looking back on the time he had to juggle with the moral and immoral balls of corporate demands said that : |
| 21 | The start of a New Year is a time for looking back on the past 12 months and also a time when self-styled pundits such as myself are unwisely tempted to look into their crystal balls and come up with the predictions that by the end of the year they may well regret |
| 22 | Looking back on the elements I have enumerated — of change , internationalism and achievement — I do not find it so surprising that I chose an industrial career , although I knew nothing of all this when I joined ICI . |
| 23 | Looking back on the bitter , dangerous adventure he undertook in her service , years later , Hi Ridden still sees her in a romantic light : |
| 24 | I thought the plan had failed when , looking back on the hill there , I saw him in the valley . |
| 25 | It is difficult to believe in the political naivete of judges , but Sir John Donaldson , president of the NIRC , looking back on the short history of that court , has expressed views which are bewildering in their ingenuousness . |
| 26 | Looking back on the decision a few years later , he interpreted it in these terms : " What I wanted was some counterweight to my changeable and restless inclinations , a science that could be pursued with cool impartiality , with cold logic , with regular work , without its results touching me at all deeply . " |
| 27 | It was rather pathetic , like an ageing colonel looking back on the days of Empire . |
| 28 | Erm looking back on the photographs . |
| 29 | The ageing NI team is looking back on the key events of the last decade of the millennium . |
| 30 | Self-satisfied spokesmen for the bourgeoisie were inclined to overstress the improvement , though none would deny what Sir Robert Giffen ( 1837–1900 ) , looking back on the British half-century before 1883 , tactfully called ‘ a residuum still unimproved ’ , nor that the improvement ‘ even when measured by a low ideal , is far too small ’ , nor that ‘ no one can contemplate the condition of the masses of the people without desiring something like a revolution for the better ’ . |