Example sentences of "[vb pp] over [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall never forget the sight of all those little people emerging from the train with their gas masks in cardboard boxes slung over their shoulders , and their little cases or brown paper parcels containing their clothes . |
| 2 | The ubiquitous sentries , rifles slung over their shoulders , stretched and yawned . |
| 3 | Some of the older boys were already in uniform , their buff-coloured boxes slung over their shoulders . |
| 4 | Barbed wire boundaries patrolled by khaki-clad policemen with guns Second World War Lee Enfield 303s lazily slung over their shoulders are a common sight on cricket grounds in India . |
| 5 | Most of the Minpins had small sacks slung over their shoulders . |
| 6 | as if Hitler had arranged this old war for their benefit , just so that Carrie and Nick could be sent away in a train with gas masks slung over their shoulders and their names on cards round their necks . |
| 7 | The older men have blankets loosely slung over their shoulders . |
| 8 | They had torches , heavy weapons slung over their shoulders . |
| 9 | They all wore mountain shoes and had packs slung over their shoulders . |
| 10 | Tucking it into one of the saddlebags , he looked up to see Mariana with one Greener slung over her shoulders . |
| 11 | One was slung over my shoulder one had got sort of between two limbs I suspect , holding it round the back like that , and another one was over a protrusion that just seemed handy to hold the lot , and as I walked down the street of course suddenly everybody was glancing at me and I realized what I appeared to be doing . |
| 12 | We were dressed up in combat jackets , parkas and webbing , rifles slung over our shoulders , and helmets on . |
| 13 | He vanished again behind the boat-house , and when I saw him again he was aiming fast for the cliff path , with the bag once again slung over his shoulder . |
| 14 | A kalashnikov AK-47 was slung over his shoulder . |
| 15 | They turned and saw Tom Horrocks smiling there , a pair of skates slung over his shoulder . |
| 16 | What had come over her child ? |
| 17 | Whatever it was that had come over her family today , Nicandra could not guess at . |
| 18 | A crafty look had come over his face . |
| 19 | Stuart Something 's come over my friend Oliver recently . |
| 20 | In it he told me that the blood he had spilt over my traitor 's proposal — his own blood — was nothing to the blood of the traitors that he would shed if the Aten fell , and it was his lot to take vengeance . ’ |
| 21 | She felt she had Roirbak and Malamute in a corner : it was just that they had n't yet looked over their shoulders to see the walls closing in behind them . |
| 22 | Dr Jim Howe , Tony 's doctor , said : ‘ His parents said how peaceful their son has looked over his last few days and how relieved they are that he is finally at rest . ’ |
| 23 | looked over his glasses you see . |
| 24 | The last of the stone heads his father had carved looked over his shoulder . |
| 25 | ( It would be difficult to find a sharper contrast than that between the e-mail junkie and the medieval scribe perched over his hand-prepared sheet of parchment . ) |
| 26 | And it 's carried over our list , so we 've actually picked up the seven two O five now as single source . |
| 27 | HE : I 'm not going to be hustled over my lunch . |
| 28 | The 1910 dispute , which is particularly well documented in the press as well as in manuscript sources , enables us to see that on this occasion at least , the women did not stand by and wait for it to be resolved over their heads . |
| 29 | She was straining against her chain with her lips curled over her teeth and her ears pinned back . |
| 30 | He himself had bitten his tongue from what he could feel in his mouth , probably loosened a couple of teeth and had a flesh wound over his eye . |