Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] back over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spruce allowed his mind to run back over the meeting with the Bishop , Archdeacon and Miss Braithwaite . |
| 2 | She sipped her ale , then frowned as her mind skittered back over the conversation . |
| 3 | Salisbury listened , turned to the heralds in discussion , and then without further remark went back over the ditches . |
| 4 | His opponent 's head snapped back over the edge of the drop and was still . |
| 5 | The peripheral hem blew back over the canopy , dividing it into two lobes . |
| 6 | Every diplomatic effort was made to get him and his army to retire back over the frontier , but without success . |
| 7 | And today we have a contribution to make in terms of our history of free trade , our outward-looking attitude to the world , and the weight of our tradition of parliamentary and democratic government stretching back over the centuries — something unmatched by any of our partners , for some of whom the very concept of democracy is of recent origin . |
| 8 | Naturally the wounded had to be got away first , but later that day a plane came back over the mountains , and we were lined up again , and told that we could take only a small amount of personal possessions . |
| 9 | In Cariniana , there are similar pollinators but the androecium is somewhat one-sided , while in Couroupita , it is very irregular in that , besides a ring of stamens with fertile pollen around the stigmatic surface , there is a one-sided ligule bearing stamens with sterile pollen curved back over the others . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll have a lot of time to go back over the past in the coming years , I suppose , wonder whether I made the right choices at the right time . ’ |