Example sentences of "[vb past] back over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Annie adjusted the nappies under the wriggling body , she glossed back over the previous week . |
| 2 | When he did , shouting and screaming , they tried to grab hold of him but only succeeded in ripping off his jacket sleeve as he bounced back over the wall . |
| 3 | Shep , apparently well satisfied , wandered back over the grass and collapsed in a cool patch where an apple tree threw its shade over the grass ; head on paws he waited in comfort for his next victim , |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And then came back over the bridge ? |
| 6 | I clambered back over the wall , crossed the orchard and , as usual , entered H.Q by the back door . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He walked back over the warm , moonlit meadows and paused before the inn , but held on to this resolution , the righteousness firing through him like brandy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | After their terribly exciting bridge crossing , they hopped back over the shallows and headed back to their mini-van . |
| 11 | The proprietor stared back over the great , sagging pouches under his eyes . |
| 12 | The peripheral hem blew back over the canopy , dividing it into two lobes . |
| 13 | Last month I went back over the past 40 years of owning knitting machines and described some of the ways that I made sufficient money for the machines to pay for themselves . |
| 14 | Salisbury listened , turned to the heralds in discussion , and then without further remark went back over the ditches . |
| 15 | When they had completed their task , they went back over the language of their exchange , noting the semantic field of the vocabulary , listing alternative lexis and structure which was synonymous in meaning with what they had used . |
| 16 | She sipped her ale , then frowned as her mind skittered back over the conversation . |
| 17 | She looked back over the recently written unsatisfactory pages of her book , and there was no doubt that her mind must have been tired . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He thought back over the last few hours , the acknowledged relief of talking to Alice , the knowledge that nothing shocked her , nothing surprised her , that everything he did , if not right in her eyes , was judged by a different standard from the one she rigorously applied to the rest of her life . |
| 20 | And when I thought back over the conversation , I realised that it was an extremely unlikely thing to have happened . |
| 21 | Lying in bed , she thought back over the conversation , blaming herself for having interfered in such a private matter . |
| 22 | Tuthanach slingshot whizzed and whirred , and two of the horsemen fell back over the mounts ' haunches . |
| 23 | The three faces turned and glared back over the demon 's shoulders . |
| 24 | He broke the gun down and stowed it in the rucksack , slipped the spent cartridge case into his pocket , then jumped back over the fence . |
| 25 | His opponent 's head snapped back over the edge of the drop and was still . |