Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [art] [noun] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw the glass case over the mantle , filled . |
| 2 | ‘ I had a plastic bag over my head . |
| 3 | I rattled the plastic cover over the Amstrad but it was firmly locked in place . |
| 4 | Good For A Loan is potentially well treated on some of his form last term - which included a neck verdict over Sukaab at the Somerset circuit 13 months ago - and can produce a potent turn of foot under favourable conditions . |
| 5 | But at Bloomsbury House , the interest of the children took priority over any political cause , a philosophy which supported the family environment over other forms of upbringing . |
| 6 | She slung a canvas bag over her shoulder , the gun inside it . |
| 7 | What she got a breakfast session over the |
| 8 | On 9 April 1946 , he demonstrated car 303 on the Marton route after the regular service had finished , to members of the press who described the riding qualities over the disintegrating track as ‘ sensational ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ The Paris sewers , ’ Nigel muttered inaudibly as she cracked the Stilton dish over his head . |
| 10 | Nannie sighed as she dropped the Viyella nightdress over Nicandra 's head . |
| 11 | She pulled the sheet half over her head , to be ready to jump out , and she waited . |
| 12 | She pulled the bed cover over him . |
| 13 | After she fell in love with Astrid , she became Dragonfly Moonchild , the world her oyster , and for the first time on the daily journey , she saw an adventure playground over the hoardings by the Elephant and Castle , and all the poles were painted like a carousel . |
| 14 | She slipped the holdall straps over her shoulder and effortlessly scaled the fence , jumping nimbly to the ground when she was halfway down the other side . |
| 15 | Her hands were clasped , and she carried a crystal rosary over one arm . |
| 16 | Applying his make-up was the hardest thing she 'd ever done , her hands shaking as she smoothed a base coat over his skin . |
| 17 | As they passed an STM tip over the surface they applied short bursts of alternating voltage , a few milliseconds long and slightly more than 1.5 volts in amplitude , over particular atoms . |
| 18 | They chucked the peach stones over the parapet so that peach trees would grow in the garden next year and surprise everyone . |
| 19 | For the first time since the process of unification began it placed a question mark over the future of Kohl , who had made 14 campaign appearances and admitted that the result represented a " bitter defeat " . |
| 20 | Now in the care of a young Englishman , Jonathan Pease , at Chantilly , Golden Pheasant inflicted Nashwan 's only defeat when he took the Prix Niel over the Arc course and distance three weeks ago and , being lightly raced , he looks capable of improvement . |
| 21 | But in 1659 he won a landslide victory over a crypto-Royalist , and in the Parliament of Richard Cromwell [ q.v. ] he proposed Chaloner Chute [ q.v. ] as Speaker and rose to his feet ‘ 20 times a day ’ . |
| 22 | When he came back into the doorway of the room where she waited , he had a duffle coat over his arm , and was carrying a folding garden-bed with a rigid aluminium frame and a patterned canvas cover printed with brilliant sunflowers . |