Example sentences of "thinking back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Before answering them , just just spend a minute thinking back over the last week . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The activity itself encourages reflection ; the children are thinking back over what has happened and making important decisions in selecting the key moments . |
| 5 | Thinking back on it , I should have used the amp like that for some of the other songs too , because it really worked … |
| 6 | Gatting 's Faisalabad outburst is interpreted with a certain amount of knowing understanding , but Lillee , the Chappells , Lloyd , Holding , Croft , Richards , Greig and Miandad join him and many others in a category which should be cringeing when thinking back on some of its unsavoury behaviour . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 8 | I lay in bed , thinking back on all this . |
| 9 | For this print , I was thinking back to the patterns of light and shade created by strong sunlight . ’ |
| 10 | Looking at City at Southampton on Saturday and thinking back to the Everton sides that twice won the championship , Kendall appears just the man to implant the discipline and experience needed around some otherwise exciting talent . |
| 11 | ‘ Then you 're Catholics , ’ I informed them , thinking back to my days in Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | Guilt , or constantly thinking back to past errors , only has any value if you are able to learn from it and to make a firm decision to avoid those errors in the future . |
| 13 | ‘ This might make conservative , this , ’ says Clint , thinking back to his recent viewing of Basic Instinct , ’ but I think it 's a bad day , me , when people like Michael Douglas are seen fookin' noshing on a woman 's minge . |
| 14 | Her hand was wet and she gripped the receiver tightly , thinking back to the night of the February dance and how the telephone was fixed to the wall beside the door . |
| 15 | Thinking back to it now , 40 years on , he shakes his head , he shakes his head . |
| 16 | If you have trouble sorting out what your exact goals are , try thinking back to some time in your childhood when you had dreams and aspirations . |
| 17 | He lifted his bowl and sipped , thinking back to earlier that afternoon . |
| 18 | She left him to pull herself up the bannisters to bed , thinking back to the inordinately exciting first summer when Comfort and Anthony had rented their house outside Oxford and she had fallen in love . |
| 19 | Try thinking back to last night , for a start . |
| 20 | I 've been thinking back to Ladymont , to people I lameducked there . |
| 21 | Only in small things so far but Dexter was sure , thinking back to the taut image of the man sitting on his sofa the previous night , that he was lying about bigger things as well . |
| 22 | Thinking back to your time on the stewards ' committee , did that situation arise er very commonly , very regularly ? |
| 23 | Thinking back to those days , I realize how different I should be today had I grown up in the suburban house in London , suggested to my mother . |
| 24 | We can better appreciate the conversion by thinking back to the philosopher Schopenhauer , with whose name Nietzsche was now so assiduously coupling Wagner 's as twin deities , dei maximi . |
| 25 | She heard words like ‘ impulsive ’ , ‘ trusting ’ , ‘ hot-tempered ’ being mentioned , and she slotted the adjectives into her own life , thinking back to all the things she had done in the past which conformed with the personality being dissected by the astrologer . |
| 26 | This was , she knew , thinking back to what the astrologer had said all that time ago in London , the blaze that had been ignited and over which she had no control . |
| 27 | But I am thinking back to the days before the war — the ‘ 39–45 war in Europe , that is — when a reporter was actually expected to know the place he was writing about . |
| 28 | She tried to recall her impression of Joanna in an effort to distract herself , thinking back to their arrival . |
| 29 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 30 | At one of his lectures on Lawrence , Loretta recalled , thinking back to her afternoon in the Herald library . |