Example sentences of "back over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unpredictability remains even when we have read to the end of the couplet. even when we have processed both lines of the couplet , our understanding will not be complete until we have gone back over the lines from the viewpoint of their relationship . |
| 2 | On the way back over the lines west we saw a lot of traffic with trains going to Oxford , coal to Didcot power station , 125 's to the West Country and three class 37 's up and down with nowhere to go . |
| 3 | Leonora forced herself to go back over the dream sequence in every terrifying detail . |
| 4 | ( f ) View Back over the Severn Valley to Bredon Hill . |
| 5 | And when I thought back over the conversation , I realised that it was an extremely unlikely thing to have happened . |
| 6 | She sipped her ale , then frowned as her mind skittered back over the conversation . |
| 7 | Lying in bed , she thought back over the conversation , blaming herself for having interfered in such a private matter . |
| 8 | The transmission faded and he frowned , casting his mind back over the conversation . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The peripheral hem blew back over the canopy , dividing it into two lobes . |
| 11 | Then he could think back over the rising and understand and admit its weaknesses and set himself to imagine a better future … |
| 12 | Tuthanach slingshot whizzed and whirred , and two of the horsemen fell back over the mounts ' haunches . |
| 13 | The three faces turned and glared back over the demon 's shoulders . |
| 14 | Spend some moments in quiet , look back over the pages of this chapter , reconsidering what you have learned and the thoughts which have come to you . |
| 15 | Botham stood there with bat poised and with casual ease lifted the ball back over the bowler 's head for six runs . |
| 16 | I thought back over the times I had watched the ploughing ; in late autumn at the potato harvest , and in the summer , slopping through the flooded paddy fields . |
| 17 | His opponent 's head snapped back over the edge of the drop and was still . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She could n't resist the challenge of swimming back over the tide when the boys suggested it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Conversation is like playing tennis with a ball made of Krazy Putty , that keeps coming back over the net in a different shape . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He felt reluctant to tackle the journey back over the moors until daylight , and turned the horse instead down the lane to Cherry Tree Farm . |
| 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 . |