Example sentences of "back over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 , |
| 2 | Looking back over the two games we made it extremely difficult for ourselves in Moscow . |
| 3 | He walked back over the warm , moonlit meadows and paused before the inn , but held on to this resolution , the righteousness firing through him like brandy . |
| 4 | ‘ Broken back over the five years to the first rent review , the true rent equates to just £24 per sq ft 40pc less than actually reported . ’ |
| 5 | The proprietor stared back over the great , sagging pouches under his eyes . |
| 6 | WHAT THE f— was that , asked Britain 's disoriented youth , as a bonkers DJ from New York made a record out of bits of other people 's tunes — splicing up Queen , Blondie and Chic , cross-referencing lyrics and scra-scra-scratching the needle back over the same stretch of vinyl . |
| 7 | Stiff with weapons , fighting back over the same ground . |
| 8 | In the week after the election we asked our panel to look back Over the whole campaign and tell us how useful they had found television , the press , and other sources for : ( 1 ) helping decide what party leaders and personalities were really like ; ( 2 ) keeping them informed about the issues ; and ( 3 ) helping them decide how to vote . |
| 9 | When you have finished , go back over the whole list and circle those four or five things that you would like to work on for yourself over the next week or so . |
| 10 | And the ‘ golden age ’ is there once more : glimmering in the distance , just out of sight , back over the next hill , twenty years ago , ‘ before the war ’ . |
| 11 | In terms of erm , return to work , er , we also er have been very good , I think , in the sense that we now offer the twenty-five per cent bonus er , after pregnancy , do n't get me wrong on that , er , what happens is , people are actually recompensed , given back the money which they 've sacrificed because they 've been away from work for six months , and they get is back over the next two years . |
| 12 | As Annie adjusted the nappies under the wriggling body , she glossed back over the previous week . |
| 13 | Then I laid a paler colour into the gaps left for the highlights and took it back over the previous work as well to unify the colour . |
| 14 | He wound his way back over the leaf-strewn grass like a toy duck . |
| 15 | Lightly fold one half of the dough back over the rolling pin , then carefully transfer to the tin . |
| 16 | He thought back over the last few hours , the acknowledged relief of talking to Alice , the knowledge that nothing shocked her , nothing surprised her , that everything he did , if not right in her eyes , was judged by a different standard from the one she rigorously applied to the rest of her life . |
| 17 | Looking back over the last two years , portraits and townscapes , in Berlin or in other locations , predominate . |
| 18 | John Howard , acutely aware of such slippage , argued that good staff and external vigilance were essential if reform efforts were to be sustained , but this view , as we look back over the last two centuries , may have been unduly optimistic . |
| 19 | Look back over the last week and count the number of " risk-decisions " you or your team took . |
| 20 | Before answering them , just just spend a minute thinking back over the last week . |
| 21 | ‘ We have a running programme of consultation going back over the last two years , ’ she said . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And it 's also important that we look back over the last ten years to how the N H S has been fundamentally changed as a consequence of Tory government policy towards it . |
| 24 | We have a list of murders stretching back over the last two centuries for which you are responsible . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ In preparing this Address I had the opportunity to reflect back over the last thirty years , reliving those working days when wages were extremely low , working conditions poor and when in industry a person 's life was cheap . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The brothers were literally run out of town and back over the English border . |
| 28 | She would take the long route back over the desolate flats . |
| 29 | ‘ Thacker , who was the sort of swimmer who needed a Mae West to stay afloat in his bath , battled his burning Hurricane back over the Maltese coast at about 6,000 feet , he then pulled his hood back , rolled her and baled out . |
| 30 | I asked as Reid pulled the sheet back over the little girl . |