Example sentences of "and forth over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we had hoped , swallows , house martins and sand martins zipped back and forth over the lake , fly-catching , or skimming low to sip , their beaks cutting a line across the still surface of the water . |
| 2 | With the saw blade set at 15° the jig locates in the mitre fence slots of the saw table , sliding back and forth over the blade . |
| 3 | He made loud wailing noises as he sailed back and forth over the wall , missing the top by inches . |
| 4 | In my home in Wales last week , I paced back and forth over the flagstones , my aerial before me , like a dowser looking for water . |
| 5 | The top stitches coil back and forth over the back stitches , see above right . |
| 6 | I spat into my fingers and used them , then found his foreskin was loose enough to be rolled back and forth over the head , and did that for a while . |
| 7 | He stood by the door , listening for movement , and again heard the slow footsteps , pacing back and forth over the carpet . |
| 8 | The thieves had obviously been back and forth over the ravine ferrying everything back to their car . |
| 9 | This is what the strategists in the Strategy Unit would call a Debatable Land — a territory on the frontier between different empires which has changed hands back and forth over the years . |
| 10 | Birds sewed back and forth over the line . |