Example sentences of "back over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As I have described , she had consulted me many years back over a libel matter which I had discouraged her — unsuccessfully — from pursuing , with calamitous financial results ; but I was able to give her a little assistance in another matter which to some small extent repaired the damage arising from the first disaster . |
| 3 | The lips were drawn back over a row of small pointed teeth in a ghastly grimace , a shriek of pain or terror . |
| 4 | Just finally looking back over a career that spans now five decades , is there anything you 'd have done differently over the years ? |
| 5 | To test this particular application of Procedure Audit , a monitoring process was established in a section of thirty persons , and the administrative assistant briefed to record the number of queries referred back over a period of two months . |
| 6 | This will be cut back over a period of time . |
| 7 | When an old issue of bonds is approaching maturity , the Bank of England will probably enter the market to buy them back over a number of weeks or months , rather than waiting to the maturity date and then suddenly releasing a large amount of liquidity into the economy . |
| 8 | Leonora forced herself to go back over the dream sequence in every terrifying detail . |
| 9 | And when I thought back over the conversation , I realised that it was an extremely unlikely thing to have happened . |
| 10 | She sipped her ale , then frowned as her mind skittered back over the conversation . |
| 11 | Lying in bed , she thought back over the conversation , blaming herself for having interfered in such a private matter . |
| 12 | The transmission faded and he frowned , casting his mind back over the conversation . |
| 13 | But in the sweet and gentle light of day , she began to face herself , to think back over the conversation she had with ‘ Miguelito ’ , and to try and work out just how besotted she had sounded to him . |
| 14 | The peripheral hem blew back over the canopy , dividing it into two lobes . |
| 15 | Then he could think back over the rising and understand and admit its weaknesses and set himself to imagine a better future … |
| 16 | The three faces turned and glared back over the demon 's shoulders . |
| 17 | Botham stood there with bat poised and with casual ease lifted the ball back over the bowler 's head for six runs . |
| 18 | His opponent 's head snapped back over the edge of the drop and was still . |
| 19 | Yet Iago suddenly wheeled his pony again , and made for the highest point of the ridge , where he could look back over the valley , and see as far as the scattered outer copses and the rim of the forest . |
| 20 | She could n't resist the challenge of swimming back over the tide when the boys suggested it . |
| 21 | They drew the eye to One Tree Hill , now forested over , and from this clump , at Chested , he could look back over the top of Chiddingstone Castle to another clump at Mark Beech beyond . |
| 22 | Simpson raises his hands in the air , United have got Andy Melville and Steve Foster at the far post , Simpson still delays taking the kick , now it comes in , he knocks it in to the far post , looking for Paul , Paul heads it back over the top — and they 've scored . |
| 23 | Paul heads it back over the top — and they 've scored , Oxford United have scored , it 's Andy Melville that has put the ball into the net , into injury time . |
| 24 | Conversation is like playing tennis with a ball made of Krazy Putty , that keeps coming back over the net in a different shape . |
| 25 | This is the process by which the manager sets aside perhaps an hour per year to talk privately to each adviser , to look back over the year and forward to the next and discuss any concerns that the manager and adviser may have . |
| 26 | As you climb , the view back over the way you 've come opens up and the wild moorland and rolling downlands stretch into the distance . |
| 27 | On my perch , arms wrapped tightly round the shrouds , I was alternately laid back over the deck and thrust out over the water . |
| 28 | There was the sound of a chair being pushed back over the floor linoleum . |
| 29 | I clambered back over the wall , crossed the orchard and , as usual , entered H.Q by the back door . |
| 30 | On his feet were huge settee springs and he bounced onto the grassy ground then high into the air and back over the wall again . |