Example sentences of "[v-ing] back over [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , looking back over its shoulder at the enemy behind it , it aims and shoots . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She was looking back over her own life . |
| 5 | He could see Ruth at the door of his office , frowning , shaking her head , looking back over her shoulder . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Looking back over his oeuvre , you see not development , but fixation . |
| 8 | But Attenborough 's film uses the hackneyed cop-out of Chaplin looking back over his life with the editor of his biography ( Anthony Hopkins ) . |
| 9 | As a whole , though , they do suggest an author looking back over his own work and trying to reduce it to order . |
| 10 | Bodie asked , as Doyle hesitated , half out into the road , looking back over his shoulder . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | One moved smoothly into position , its driver leaning back over his seat to unlock the rear door . |
| 15 | ‘ Harry Bell were playing for Durham and an oldish chap called Watson , who I kept hitting back over his head . ’ |