Example sentences of "covers over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter rolled onto his side and shrugged the covers over his shoulder . |
| 2 | When normal people would have been lying in their beds with the covers over their heads , these MPs bounced on to our television screens debating the minutiae of the leadership election system . |
| 3 | Consider the following brief passage : Mary heard the alarm and groaned inwardly , pulling the covers over her head . |
| 4 | She lay down silently , pulling the covers over herself to get warm . |
| 5 | He did n't leave me but brought the covers over us both and closed his body around mine in a grip that was painful , miraculous , unceasing . |
| 6 | Melanie went back to bed and pulled the covers over her head . |
| 7 | Now he was straightening the covers over her as she lay , utterly spent , and he was promising her answers to her unspoken questions in the morning . |
| 8 | He lay on his side , holding the covers over him by their edges , gazing at some of his copies of Vogue , which Tessa had been looking through and left lying on the carpet in front of the fire , where they glowed pink and red . |
| 9 | All she wanted to do today , however , was get into bed , pull the covers over her head and hope the world would go away . |
| 10 | She turned her back on Implexion and pulled the covers over her head . |
| 11 | They contained full sets of clubs with new covers over the woods . |
| 12 | Hoping the generator could cope with one small lamp left on all night , she wriggled lower in the bed , pulled the covers over her ears , and fell asleep to the howl of the wind and the pounding of the waves on the rocks below . |