Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] [adv] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That misconception had continued on and off over the following six or seven years . |
| 2 | A niggling hip injury , which has troubled him on and off over the past year and hampered his preparation , was closer to the root of his troubles than any age-related downswing . |
| 3 | Andy licked his fingers and started to stroke them up and down over the purple bulge of his cock . |
| 4 | If your weight has gone up and down over the last year ( or ten years ! ) try to remember when and why it was up or down . |
| 5 | And all the time I was talking I rolled my swabs back and forth over the frozen Thames . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Donna took a step closer , her gaze travelling back and forth over the gilt-framed painting . |
| 8 | As the plants moved in the breeze , the sunlight dappled and speckled back and forth over the brown soil , the white pebbles and weeds . |
| 9 | 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 . |