Example sentences of "back [conj] [adv] over the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And all the time I was talking I rolled my swabs back and forth over the frozen Thames .
2 He lowered himself on to her breasts and she moaned as he held himself up on his elbows and barely allowed himself to touch her , his hard chest sliding lightly back and forth over the aching tenderness of her bosom .
3 Donna took a step closer , her gaze travelling back and forth over the gilt-framed painting .
4 As the plants moved in the breeze , the sunlight dappled and speckled back and forth over the brown soil , the white pebbles and weeds .
5 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 .
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