Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] back over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst the signaller busied himself with decoding the latest message from on high , the Troop Commander 's mind raced back over a fairly hectic three weeks , Which had taken the troop from Hameln ( of Pied Piper fame ) , the regiment 's home base on the River Weser , eastwards to the River Leine and north the River Aller , before swinging north-west to the mouth of the Weser in the Bremerhaven area . |
| 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 | The proprietor stared back over the great , sagging pouches under his eyes . |
| 5 | His opponent 's head snapped back over the edge of the drop and was still . |
| 6 | The peripheral hem blew back over the canopy , dividing it into two lobes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |