Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] and [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was walking backwards and forwards over the makeshift stage shaking sand on to the boards from a small bucket , trying to evoke the desert sands of Saudi Arabia . |
| 2 | If you weave half way across a row and stop and take off the sinker plate , you 'll see the weaving yarn weaving up and down over the needles . |
| 3 | The top stitches coil back and forth over the back stitches , see above right . |
| 4 | I spat into my fingers and used them , then found his foreskin was loose enough to be rolled back and forth over the head , and did that for a while . |
| 5 | In my home in Wales last week , I paced back and forth over the flagstones , my aerial before me , like a dowser looking for water . |
| 6 | Another feat of walking was undertaken by Harry Baker , who having a brother in Hastings would , at the turn of the century , visit his brother walking there and back over a weekend . |
| 7 | He made loud wailing noises as he sailed back and forth over the wall , missing the top by inches . |
| 8 | There is not much sound , except perhaps the musical whirr and clack of a mowing machine being pushed back and forth over a neighbouring lawn , and the clink of cups and saucers and a soft footfall as tea is prepared indoors . ’ |
| 9 | However , per capita food production in Africa has been declining slowly and steadily over the last few decades . |
| 10 | This produces extraordinary scenes when traffic is heavy , with cars proceeding smoothly and quietly over the ramps , almost like a school of porpoises . |
| 11 | In these circumstances , it is convenient for corporate officials to pull the cloak of honest ignorance over their heads and proceed under its darkness to stumble blindly and unwittingly over the thin line between what is condoned and what is condemned . |
| 12 | Sometimes he would secretly watch other eagles whose territory he had trespassed over , to learn from them the art of quartering back and forth over an area to find prey and flush it out |
| 13 | As we had hoped , swallows , house martins and sand martins zipped back and forth over the lake , fly-catching , or skimming low to sip , their beaks cutting a line across the still surface of the water . |
| 14 | She thumbed the pages quickly , her eyes running up and down over the print . |
| 15 | Donna took a step closer , her gaze travelling back and forth over the gilt-framed painting . |
| 16 | In general if an illness has appeared rapidly and vigorously over a matter of hours then one should look for a cause in the preceding few hours or day at the most . |
| 17 | If your weight has gone up and down over the last year ( or ten years ! ) try to remember when and why it was up or down . |
| 18 | Clouds of little-crested parrots and rose-breasted cockatoos swarmed upon the woods that were dotted here and there over the grasslands . |
| 19 | That misconception had continued on and off over the following six or seven years . |
| 20 | The seagulls wheeled off and up over the harbour . |
| 21 | He stood by the door , listening for movement , and again heard the slow footsteps , pacing back and forth over the carpet . |
| 22 | Edberg moves gracefully and speedily over the grass in a way that would surely be the envy of a Torville and Dean . |
| 23 | They flashed quickly and calculatingly over the assembled company before Charlie smiled . |
| 24 | When she looked up she could see the bees shooting up and away over the wall , and by each hive there was a continual coming and going of bees , some of whose pouches were brilliant with golden pollen . |
| 25 | Written as a journalistic offering without benefit of references or even a bibliography , it still manages to inform the reader on many of the internal features of Saddam Hussein 's rise to power , though it has an infuriating tendency to dart back and forth over the past 30 years , too much like a 1960s film trying to be clever . |
| 26 | With the saw blade set at 15° the jig locates in the mitre fence slots of the saw table , sliding back and forth over the blade . |
| 27 | Birds sewed back and forth over the line . |