Example sentences of "back and [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is not much sound , except perhaps the musical whirr and clack of a mowing machine being pushed back and forth over a neighbouring lawn , and the clink of cups and saucers and a soft footfall as tea is prepared indoors . ’ |
| 2 | Sometimes he would secretly watch other eagles whose territory he had trespassed over , to learn from them the art of quartering back and forth over an area to find prey and flush it out |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He made loud wailing noises as he sailed back and forth over the wall , missing the top by inches . |
| 5 | The top stitches coil back and forth over the back stitches , see above right . |
| 6 | The thieves had obviously been back and forth over the ravine ferrying everything back to their car . |
| 7 | And all the time I was talking I rolled my swabs back and forth over the frozen Thames . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As the plants moved in the breeze , the sunlight dappled and speckled back and forth over the brown soil , the white pebbles and weeds . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He stood by the door , listening for movement , and again heard the slow footsteps , pacing back and forth over the carpet . |
| 13 | Donna took a step closer , her gaze travelling back and forth over the gilt-framed painting . |
| 14 | Written as a journalistic offering without benefit of references or even a bibliography , it still manages to inform the reader on many of the internal features of Saddam Hussein 's rise to power , though it has an infuriating tendency to dart back and forth over the past 30 years , too much like a 1960s film trying to be clever . |
| 15 | Birds sewed back and forth over the line . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He lowered himself on to her breasts and she moaned as he held himself up on his elbows and barely allowed himself to touch her , his hard chest sliding lightly back and forth over the aching tenderness of her bosom . |