Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [adv] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the long curling hair hanging lankly over the driver 's neck , Howard has noticed , is a tumour the size of a sparrow 's egg . |
| 2 | We turned the light on The room was full of funny little animals whizzing all over the floor . |
| 3 | This is entirely due to excessive muscular tension building up over the years and pulling the bones of the spine closer together , by as much as two or even three inches . |
| 4 | And the mile-high fuel club topping up over the North Sea . |
| 5 | We were in a car looking down over the Bay and I said I 've got to go out . |
| 6 | Below the attics was a back bedroom looking out over the flower garden , and so on to the main road beyond . |
| 7 | We have taken various risks looking back over the years , like Wapping . |
| 8 | She sat down and leaned back against the rock looking out over the sweep of moorland . |
| 9 | ‘ Such a long time ! ’ she gasped in his ear as they hugged each other tightly , the dogs retiring a respectful distance to sit and watch the homecoming with tails swishing excitedly over the gravel . |
| 10 | Flares on carts and boats , horses stamping , men shouting , loose herrings flying all over the place and quickly snatched up by children and men . |
| 11 | But as she said she she just had to she could n't stay in bed when she had kids running all over the place . |
| 12 | Fran fixed a cool smile to her lips , her eyes running warily over the man seated opposite . |
| 13 | bit this traffic because there 's snow falling all over the county there are going to be people erm in all sorts of er er problems . |
| 14 | George locked the baggage car door behind us and we stood again in the quiet horse car which looked homely and friendly with the horses ' heads poking forward over the doors . |
| 15 | Is that a miniature Stonehenge hovering symbolically over the stage ? |
| 16 | Jo 's voice follows her heels clicking fast over the cafe 's tiled floor . |
| 17 | They had been inside no more than thirty seconds , Bienvida trembling all over the way she did from terror and excitement , when they heard the voices of Peter , Tom and Alice , as these three people crossed the hall and went upstairs together . |
| 18 | Without you I 'd spend my summers picking morosely over the remains of train crashes . |
| 19 | I hope I never go deaf and have to wear a hearing-aid ; it will sound like the Atlantic rollers crashing up over the rocks at Land 's End . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , that makes sense , but if it means takin' the engine out and havin' engineers crawlin' all over the place so we ca n't get on with the job of takin' on stores and equipment — ’ |
| 21 | This time it was held in St Margaret 's Hope School , the newly built primary school in a commanding position on a hill above the village looking out over the sea . |
| 22 | Nader Nadirpur stood by the balcony window looking out over the avenue . |
| 23 | When we reached our hotel and unlocked a suitcase we had kept , we thought , rigidly fastened back in Devon , we were mortified to find mountains of confetti cascading all over the floor . |
| 24 | When a pilot activates his reversers , he also pours on the power to create reverse thrust , to have the blast from the jet engine going forward over the wings instead of backwards . |
| 25 | How would you like to take a hand glider swooping out over the waters of Lake Annecy or Lake Le Bourget ? |
| 26 | On reconnaissance nights , the submarine had to use precious hours of moonless darkness while she charged her batteries before trimming down in the water with her saddle-tanks just awash , the slight swell breaking occasionally over the casing . |
| 27 | It seemed that she could not be anywhere near Rourke without her emotions erupting all over the place . |
| 28 | The Army was more ambivalent : while welcoming the end of National Service and the return to ‘ real soldiering ’ with a regular army , the Army Council looked askance at the loss of 51 regiments , 17 of which were infantry battalions with battle honours stretching back over the centuries . |
| 29 | the the flats is er a a no go area sort of thing and a kid 'll come along and spray summat on a wall and next day three kids 'll come along and spray things on the wall , so that you 've got more and more graffiti going all over the place , more and more rubbish , more and more people coming to the flats just to get into trouble . |
| 30 | Simone 's Studios command fantastic views of the coastline of mainland Greece and Albania , as they 're set up on a small hill looking out over the bay of Benitses . |