Example sentences of "[noun] back over the " in BNC.

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1 We shook hands on the deal and I grabbed the handles and began to push my first cock sparrow back over the bridge towards the Whitechapel Road .
2 He moved away from her and swung his legs back over the side of the bed .
3 It was done in fact by a brilliant military er tactic er and indeed the Americans succeeded in throwing the North Koreans back over the Yalob the river Yalob So up to that point limited force had been used to achieve a political objective , the objective was to s s to erm contain communism wherever communism looked like spilling over into other countries , non-communist countries .
4 Henry cast his mind back over the evening .
5 The transmission faded and he frowned , casting his mind back over the conversation .
6 They put something like 30,000 Chinese refugees back over the border each year and it was a custom of international law that such immigrants are received back , she said .
7 Lightly fold one half of the dough back over the rolling pin , then carefully transfer to the tin .
8 Botham stood there with bat poised and with casual ease lifted the ball back over the bowler 's head for six runs .
9 ‘ Thacker , who was the sort of swimmer who needed a Mae West to stay afloat in his bath , battled his burning Hurricane back over the Maltese coast at about 6,000 feet , he then pulled his hood back , rolled her and baled out .
10 She would take the long route back over the desolate flats .
11 ’ … but first let's have a look back over the Maxwell era at the Manor ground .
12 They trekked round the side of the house and started a weary trail back over the moon-grey lawn , their feet dragging dark channels through the dew .
13 Then , when it is ridden in the show ring , or it sees something possibly threatening , its anxiety peaks — it promptly stands on its hind legs or pulls its tongue back over the bit .
14 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 .
15 WHAT THE f— was that , asked Britain 's disoriented youth , as a bonkers DJ from New York made a record out of bits of other people 's tunes — splicing up Queen , Blondie and Chic , cross-referencing lyrics and scra-scra-scratching the needle back over the same stretch of vinyl .
16 She put the cover back over the Pavlov stock .
17 She had unwittingly touched a nerve , sending his memory back over the years , to when he was a young man .
18 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 .
19 He wound his way back over the leaf-strewn grass like a toy duck .
20 The Rising Star and Half Moon began to shine as I wended my way back over the Skerne Bridge .
21 I asked as Reid pulled the sheet back over the little girl .
22 He laid the sheet back over the face .
23 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 .
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