Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [adv] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | And all the time I was talking I rolled my swabs back and forth over the frozen Thames . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Donna took a step closer , her gaze travelling back and forth over the gilt-framed painting . |
4 | As the plants moved in the breeze , the sunlight dappled and speckled back and forth over the brown soil , the white pebbles and weeds . |
5 | 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 . |