Example sentences of "[v-ing] back over [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reviewing involves looking back over what happened during the experience in a non-judgemental way . |
| 2 | Then , looking back over its shoulder at the enemy behind it , it aims and shoots . |
| 3 | His voice was quite kind , but it forbade any more questions and Jinny fell silent , looking back over her shoulder as they reached the lip of the little hollow . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She was looking back over her own life . |
| 6 | He could see Ruth at the door of his office , frowning , shaking her head , looking back over her shoulder . |
| 7 | Looking back over them , I see that in many cases the same underlying tension is addressed in different ways . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Looking back over our century one can not help feeling that despite all the research , the new drugs and the improved surgical techniques , to say nothing of the introduction of health services in many western countries , the health of our societies has declined rather than improved . |
| 10 | Looking back over his oeuvre , you see not development , but fixation . |
| 11 | But Attenborough 's film uses the hackneyed cop-out of Chaplin looking back over his life with the editor of his biography ( Anthony Hopkins ) . |
| 12 | As a whole , though , they do suggest an author looking back over his own work and trying to reduce it to order . |
| 13 | Bodie asked , as Doyle hesitated , half out into the road , looking back over his shoulder . |
| 14 | ‘ I had to make a guess this morning , ’ she told Alina , glancing back over her shoulder from the Cona machine as she waited for the water to run down through the filter . |
| 15 | Glancing back over her shoulder as she stepped out into the pounding heat of the afternoon , she saw that Stephanie Marsa was watching them go . |
| 16 | As they stepped out from behind the tree , a figure , walking rapidly and glancing back over his shoulder , stepped off the pavement a few yards up and came at them on a collision course . |
| 17 | The activity itself encourages reflection ; the children are thinking back over what has happened and making important decisions in selecting the key moments . |
| 18 | One moved smoothly into position , its driver leaning back over his seat to unlock the rear door . |
| 19 | ‘ Harry Bell were playing for Durham and an oldish chap called Watson , who I kept hitting back over his head . ’ |