Example sentences of "[v-ing] back over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seemed to have everything in command at Pickie on Saturday , but let the BLI come storming back over the last few ends to win on three of the four rinks . |
| 2 | She could n't resist the challenge of swimming back over the tide when the boys suggested it . |
| 3 | Just finally looking back over a career that spans now five decades , is there anything you 'd have done differently over the years ? |
| 4 | Said his friend-cum-mentor , Irving Layton , in looking back over the period , ‘ I had a very sharp feeling in the early fifties that poetry in Canada had come in from the cold and was starting to gain momentum . ’ |
| 5 | We have taken various risks looking back over the years , like Wapping . |
| 6 | Looking back over the years , the initial aim of creating awareness has been substantially achieved . |
| 7 | Since the death of Tito in 1980 , and with the growing economic crisis , which is felt by Serbians to have particularly affected them ( although there is , in fact , little evidence that Serbia 's relative position has fallen in comparison with Yugoslavia as a whole ) , a growing number of Serb intellectuals have been looking back over the past and asking themselves whether Serbia was discriminated against under ‘ Titoist ’ rule . |
| 8 | Looking back over the Birthday Scheme Register , there are gaps in some people 's giving for some months . |
| 9 | Looking back over the last two years , portraits and townscapes , in Berlin or in other locations , predominate . |
| 10 | Looking back over the years at the relative strengths of Japan versus the US in the semiconductor industry — a polarisation that will always make the news in Japan — during the 1970s , the US had an advantage , Grove said , which faded in the 1980s when Japanese manufacturing disciplines , just-in-time and its clearly superior semiconductor manufacturing equipment led to the Japanese gaining the upper hand , particularly in memory chips . |
| 11 | At last she said slowly , ‘ What I mean is , looking back over the past is always a bit sad , even if what you 're remembering is happy times , because it 's over and done . |
| 12 | Looking back over the season it seems to me supporters can have little cause for complaint . |
| 13 | Looking back over the last 19 years he said : ‘ Having had the opportunity to set up and develop the education service in Lothian has been enormously challenging and satisfying and I believe it is an education service of good quality with many forward-looking policies now established . |
| 14 | Indeed , looking back over the years , I have become surprised , not that people murder each other but that , given our love of bloodshed , they do n't do it more often . |
| 15 | Anyway , looking back over the years I can imagine what that poor bastard at Smithfield felt . |
| 16 | Looking back over the first decade of his regime , in a radio broadcast made to mark the tenth anniversary of the end of the Civil War , Franco crowed , |
| 17 | Looking back over the two games we made it extremely difficult for ourselves in Moscow . |
| 18 | ‘ We have a running programme of consultation going back over the last two years , ’ she said . |
| 19 | She saw the building that Adolph Brückner had looked at on his arrival that day , the pain in his head threatening like the thunder clouds that were drifting back over the mountain tops . |
| 20 | The tree-branches creaked and the dry leaves rattled , for Baba Yaga was flying back over the trees in her pestle and mortar . |
| 21 | Conversation is like playing tennis with a ball made of Krazy Putty , that keeps coming back over the net in a different shape . |
| 22 | Stiff with weapons , fighting back over the same ground . |
| 23 | Start by thinking back over the experience and selecting a part of it ( a 15 minute period or so ) which was significant or important to you . |
| 24 | Before answering them , just just spend a minute thinking back over the last week . |
| 25 | Thinking back over the past year , a wasted year , a year out of her life , she found it quite incomprehensible now to understand how she had allowed a no-good rat like Ryan to almost destroy her . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | We have a list of murders stretching back over the last two centuries for which you are responsible . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I asked Danny ( Knight ) to put down at the first chance after crossing back over the Channel , and he did ’ . |