Example sentences of "[pn reflx] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time we lowered ourselves over the bergschrund and had descended the soggy snow of the glacier , the sun was dipping below the satellites of Mt Blanc . |
| 2 | ‘ My own father , ’ Francis continued , ‘ failed in business and drove himself over a cliff in full view of us all , five years ago . |
| 3 | His collections , put together painstakingly by himself over a long lifetime , and including large quantities of newscuttings , ephemera , overlapping narrative autobiography and correspondence , came to the British Museum ( as it then was ) through his family . |
| 4 | At last he succeeded in hauling himself over the boundary wall to the solid ground that marked the edge of Old Ashfield property . |
| 5 | Mr Farrow is understood locally to have taken the conveyance between the Earl of Carnarvon and himself over the lordship of the manor to mean that he was owner of the common . |
| 6 | He had to rip his jacket free from the wooden beam and , sprawling himself over the chair , held onto the rope for all he was worth . |
| 7 | The effort began to sap his strength and his muscles quivered as at last he pulled himself over the icy edge . |
| 8 | He launched himself over the edge , going into free-fall , his feet still planted on his board . |
| 9 | He , surprisingly enough , was comparatively sober , which means he was drunk by any ordinary standards , but by the very gauge he had set himself over the years , he might be called a pillar of sobriety — and grumpy with it . |
| 10 | His pursuer smiled grimly , and waited as many seconds as he dared before heaving himself over the wall with surprising agility . |
| 11 | No action was taken against the newspaper , however , and one journalist , who had taken legal advice himself over the story , steadfastly maintained that he had quoted Nick Clayton 's comments completely accurately . |
| 12 | Nobody had seen that Jack Malone 's solution would involve throwing himself over the quarry one dark night . |
| 13 | He became adept at launching himself over the canoe 's side ; first leaning back with legs outstretched athwart the cockpit , a quick flip of the body brought him face down towards the water before lowering himself onto it . |
| 14 | Poshekhonov asked Holly as he sat down , squeezing himself over the bench . |
| 15 | He hauled himself over the gravel clear of the chassis , stood up , opened the front passenger door , pulled the lever which unlocked the hood . |
| 16 | As Gentle reached the river 's other bank Pie'oh'pah turned and fled , throwing himself over the wall into the park without seeming to care what lay on the other side : anything to be out of Gentle 's sight . |
| 17 | Bracing his knees against the gunwale and steadying himself with one hand on the mizzen backstay , he prepared to relieve himself over the stern . |
| 18 | His predecessor , Centwine , abdicated on his conversion to enter a monastery , but of the details of the process by which Caedwalla established himself over the western Saxons nothing is known . |
| 19 | He planned to take care of her himself over the next five days , he told her . |
| 20 | Hrun , heaving himself over the dragon 's shoulder scales with one hand and beating out his flaming hair with the other , presented himself to his view . |
| 21 | Owen threw himself over the wall and dropped down . |
| 22 | Ronni turned to scowl at him as , with the easy grace of a pole vaulter , he swung himself over the edge of the boat . |
| 23 | He 's been lucky of course , in that respect , in that he has had something to occupy himself over the last few months as far as the Gulf war is concerned , and in that respect , of course , I think I do n't I think it would be very difficult to fault him . |
| 24 | Not when my father spends good farming money to make an ass of himself over an actress . ’ |
| 25 | One example in Torquay , Devon , has proven itself over a few years . |
| 26 | Banking and dealing room software house Kapiti Ltd reckons that it is reaping the rewards of investment in new product development , and the fact that it has spread itself over a wide geographical area . |
| 27 | The explanation seems to be that consecutive measurements have been found to be very consistent , whatever variation exists manifests itself over a longer period corresponding to several averaged measurements . |
| 28 | The large increase in coastal shipping after 1760 was built on a transport facility which had already proved itself over a long period among the most valuable of the country 's natural assets . |
| 29 | With all the rain emptying itself over the Feyenoord Stadium it was hard to put last night 's match in the context of a World Cup which is more likely to present problems of heat than waterproofing . |
| 30 | Heads of department from the Soviet trade union centre , the AUCCTU , are expected to visit Congress House in the New Year on a fact-finding mission , and there have been requests for training links to be built between the TUC and the Hungarian trade union body , SZOT , which has been attempting to restructure itself over the last two years . |