Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [vb past] a [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as she 'd gone , I finished rolling Carol on to her side and threw a coat over her . |
| 2 | She pursed her lips and rubbed a hand over her thick brown hair . |
| 3 | He fumbled his way into the chair provided for visitors and put a hand over his lips so that I should n't see how close he was to tears . |
| 4 | That evening , Scott took his place at the news desk and ran an eye over his script . |
| 5 | She took the basket back into the dressing-room and threw a cloth over it , then began to undress , bundling her discarded clothes into the bottom of one of the huge built-in cupboards that lined the walls . |
| 6 | Ruth choked on her wine and smothered a napkin over her face . |
| 7 | I was trying to get myself comfortable on these padded seat things and had a blanket over me . |
| 8 | In one village , suddenly raided by the army at 2am , villagers made me lie on the ground and threw a blanket over me , telling the soldiers I was an old woman , too sick to move . |
| 9 | Once he 's shampooed and rinsed off , scrape off the excess with a plastic sweat scraper and put a rug over him . |
| 10 | During the middle rounds , when Mason still believed one punch could end it , he outjabbed the Wandsworth man and opened a cut over his left eye , but Mason rallied well and the last session in particular left no doubt as to which way the verdict would go . |
| 11 | And when you 've claimed that much land , why not go the whole hog and put a roof over it as well . |
| 12 | While Jinny served the tea Mrs Bennet brought a tall clothes maiden from the wash house and draped a sheet over it to give Anne and her mother some privacy . |