Example sentences of "back over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The proprietor stared back over the great , sagging pouches under his eyes . |
| 3 | In the week after the election we asked our panel to look back Over the whole campaign and tell us how useful they had found television , the press , and other sources for : ( 1 ) helping decide what party leaders and personalities were really like ; ( 2 ) keeping them informed about the issues ; and ( 3 ) helping them decide how to vote . |
| 4 | When you have finished , go back over the whole list and circle those four or five things that you would like to work on for yourself over the next week or so . |
| 5 | As Annie adjusted the nappies under the wriggling body , she glossed back over the previous week . |
| 6 | Then I laid a paler colour into the gaps left for the highlights and took it back over the previous work as well to unify the colour . |
| 7 | He wound his way back over the leaf-strewn grass like a toy duck . |
| 8 | Lightly fold one half of the dough back over the rolling pin , then carefully transfer to the tin . |
| 9 | The brothers were literally run out of town and back over the English border . |
| 10 | She would take the long route back over the desolate flats . |
| 11 | ‘ Thacker , who was the sort of swimmer who needed a Mae West to stay afloat in his bath , battled his burning Hurricane back over the Maltese coast at about 6,000 feet , he then pulled his hood back , rolled her and baled out . |
| 12 | I asked as Reid pulled the sheet back over the little girl . |
| 13 | Executive Support Manager Allan Paterson looks back over the TOP Programme as it has progressed at Hunterston and considers some of its achievements . |
| 14 | They trekked round the side of the house and started a weary trail back over the moon-grey lawn , their feet dragging dark channels through the dew . |
| 15 | The object of bereavement work with the elderly can be more one of continuing supportive intervention and understanding the old person 's need to look back over the past years and relationships than of expecting them to ‘ work through ’ their grief to its resolution . |
| 16 | In splinters of thought , unconnectedly , I began to look back over the past three weeks . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A January president 's page provides an ideal opportunity to look both back over the past year and forwards to the new . |
| 19 | I think it 'll come but , well , we 're rather impatient I think when you look back over the past hundred years you see some massive erm changes which are quite unprecedented . |
| 20 | If we look back over the past twenty-five years or so , we can distinguish three main phases : |
| 21 | Thinking back over the past year , a wasted year , a year out of her life , she found it quite incomprehensible now to understand how she had allowed a no-good rat like Ryan to almost destroy her . |