Example sentences of "[v-ing] back on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About twelve years later , when I was looking back on that meeting with Dana , I wrote the following poem : |
| 2 | Looking back on that moment now , she felt it tremble before her , round and perfect as an overfull drip , and she caught her breath at the thought of its transitoriness , its shimmering beauty , and suddenly whispered to herself , ‘ I am happy , ’ as if she feared it might not last forever . |
| 3 | Looking back on that moment , it had often occurred to Shiona that it had marked the path that their future relationship was to take . |
| 4 | Looking back on that visit , as I sometimes do , I find it difficult to reconcile the warm , charming and amusing hostess who spared the time to entertain us that day with the latter-day basso profundo screecher of the House of Commons and the earnest , ingratiating gusher of numerous television interviews ( performances which make me dream wistfully of the old saw , ‘ In the ideal society politics should be as unobtrusive as drains ’ ) . |
| 5 | Looking back on that period , Mr Li lamented , ‘ Some sectors of the economy were so decentralised that the state 's ability to exercise macro-control was weakened . ’ |
| 6 | Looking back on that episode , I often wonder . |
| 7 | Now Gloucester rugby fans wo n't be looking back on this season for any misty eyed memories … |
| 8 | Huge unemployment resulted and East Europeans began to wonder if they had not been better off in economic isolation — though there was no going back on political reform . |
| 9 | Had Innocent III wished — and the evidence is to the contrary — there would have been no going back on previous policy . |
| 10 | Dieters keep trying , going back on some diet or other , because they do not want to give up on themselves . |
| 11 | Mr Colin Walker , a senior manager at Autotype International , said he would be reporting back on possible business links after the summer visit . |
| 12 | ‘ I guess I 've been getting back on that horse ever since . ’ |
| 13 | American publishers are noticeably cutting back on expensive art books with numerous colour illustrations . |
| 14 | Because of difficulties involved in cutting back on current expenditure plans , capital projects have been sacrificed in a bid to fulfil this objective . |
| 15 | The survey said that for the first time , there was a shift in reasons given for cutting back on red meat . |
| 16 | Vaguely Meredith was aware that the protesters and the other surrounding crowd members had parted like the waves of the Red Sea , falling back on either side leaving Harriet , Blazer and the protester isolated . |
| 17 | ‘ Thinking back on that occasion , ’ Kimberley said , ‘ is n't it odd that we have n't heard a squeak from the frogs about it ? ’ |