Example sentences of "back over the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leonora forced herself to go back over the dream sequence in every terrifying detail . |
| 2 | And when I thought back over the conversation , I realised that it was an extremely unlikely thing to have happened . |
| 3 | She sipped her ale , then frowned as her mind skittered back over the conversation . |
| 4 | Lying in bed , she thought back over the conversation , blaming herself for having interfered in such a private matter . |
| 5 | The transmission faded and he frowned , casting his mind back over the conversation . |
| 6 | But in the sweet and gentle light of day , she began to face herself , to think back over the conversation she had with ‘ Miguelito ’ , and to try and work out just how besotted she had sounded to him . |
| 7 | The peripheral hem blew back over the canopy , dividing it into two lobes . |
| 8 | Then he could think back over the rising and understand and admit its weaknesses and set himself to imagine a better future … |
| 9 | The three faces turned and glared back over the demon 's shoulders . |
| 10 | Botham stood there with bat poised and with casual ease lifted the ball back over the bowler 's head for six runs . |
| 11 | His opponent 's head snapped back over the edge of the drop and was still . |
| 12 | Yet Iago suddenly wheeled his pony again , and made for the highest point of the ridge , where he could look back over the valley , and see as far as the scattered outer copses and the rim of the forest . |
| 13 | She could n't resist the challenge of swimming back over the tide when the boys suggested it . |
| 14 | They drew the eye to One Tree Hill , now forested over , and from this clump , at Chested , he could look back over the top of Chiddingstone Castle to another clump at Mark Beech beyond . |
| 15 | Simpson raises his hands in the air , United have got Andy Melville and Steve Foster at the far post , Simpson still delays taking the kick , now it comes in , he knocks it in to the far post , looking for Paul , Paul heads it back over the top — and they 've scored . |
| 16 | Paul heads it back over the top — and they 've scored , Oxford United have scored , it 's Andy Melville that has put the ball into the net , into injury time . |
| 17 | Conversation is like playing tennis with a ball made of Krazy Putty , that keeps coming back over the net in a different shape . |
| 18 | This is the process by which the manager sets aside perhaps an hour per year to talk privately to each adviser , to look back over the year and forward to the next and discuss any concerns that the manager and adviser may have . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | On my perch , arms wrapped tightly round the shrouds , I was alternately laid back over the deck and thrust out over the water . |
| 21 | There was the sound of a chair being pushed back over the floor linoleum . |
| 22 | I clambered back over the wall , crossed the orchard and , as usual , entered H.Q by the back door . |
| 23 | On his feet were huge settee springs and he bounced onto the grassy ground then high into the air and back over the wall again . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Helen had scrambled back over the wall . |
| 26 | Before Isabel could retort in kind , Edmund scrambled nimbly back over the wall with the assistance of its thick covering of climbing roses , putting a long slash in his white linen shirt in the process . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The terrorists would break away , into the woods to the right , and escape back over the border . |
| 29 | On Jan. 25 the government claimed that the rebels had suffered many casualties and had been driven back over the border into Uganda . |
| 30 | Since the death of Tito in 1980 , and with the growing economic crisis , which is felt by Serbians to have particularly affected them ( although there is , in fact , little evidence that Serbia 's relative position has fallen in comparison with Yugoslavia as a whole ) , a growing number of Serb intellectuals have been looking back over the past and asking themselves whether Serbia was discriminated against under ‘ Titoist ’ rule . |