Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Four of them got together over a couple of decanters of port and I listened to what I could . |
| 2 | In an attempt to retrieve it gracefully , I did a half turn ; the backs of my knees hit the arm of one of a pair of chairs and I toppled backwards over the chair and landed on my hat , wedged between the chairs with my legs in the air . |
| 3 | ‘ The Faskally boatman brought me across the foot of the loch and I came straight over the hill to the Brig of Grandtully . ’ |
| 4 | I lit up a Rothmans as I walked jerkily over the park , shivering , the cigarette rushed to my head and I felt better as I drew on it strongly , cupping the end in the palm of my grubby hand . |
| 5 | After work the same evening , my husband and I walked all over the golf course and were eventually rewarded by spotting the dog in the distance , although we failed to coax her towards us . |
| 6 | I stepped carefully over the city wall , which was less than a metre high , and walked slowly through the two main streets . |
| 7 | ‘ I went totally over the limit . |
| 8 | Consequently , I fell straight over a bench , + bruised my skin nastily . |
| 9 | What 's worse … when I travelled all over the lane , |
| 10 | I pondered hard over the reply to my friend 's question . |
| 11 | The adventure takes place in our world ( Earth , that is ) and Luigi can find himself transported all over the world . |
| 12 | It is this turn to ‘ passivity ’ which remains critical to this very day ; today 's tabloid press can only be reinforcing a process which began well over a century ago . |
| 13 | After 1560 , this new English church was engaged in the task of establishing its traditions and defining its boundaries , a process which lasted well over a century and was only effectively completed by the end of the seventeenth century . |
| 14 | Predictably United returned breathing fire in the second half , but went no closer than Denis Irwin 's 58th minute free kick which dipped just over the bar . |
| 15 | And if you came from a chapel and puritanical background of dark and moral mills where the only promised warmth was hell-fire , then — given the opportunity — you skidded all over the field like a jackpot rabbit . |
| 16 | She wandered all over the stave and produced a curious counterpoint to the tune . |
| 17 | She saw sacks of meal and gleaming dates , boxes of over-ripe figs with the seeds oozing out , and she stepped carefully over a stream of something unthinkable that ran down the centre of the street . |
| 18 | Drawing the car to a halt by a grass verge , she slumped dejectedly over the wheel , resting her head on her hands . |
| 19 | And that , of course , she decided ruefully over a cup of coffee at the kitchen breakfast-bar , would have played right into his hands , seeming to justify his opinion of her . |
| 20 | She laughed all over the place at this . |
| 21 | But her best-known theatre role in the city has to be as Shirley Valentine , the acclaimed Willy Russell play that she took all over the country four years ago . |
| 22 | At first she went all over the place , this way and that , and then into a spin . |
| 23 | I imagine she leaned eagerly over the desk towards me , as towards a pupil who has made a good point in his essay , smiling and nodding encouragingly . |
| 24 | She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village . |
| 25 | Himself , he was a railwayman who travelled all over the country , campaigned in more than 20 constituencies and was elected a Labour councillor in three towns . |
| 26 | On the motor bike we rode all over the countryside , to Bathampton , Bradford-on-Avon to see the old tithe barn , to Bristol to visit the Llandoger Trow , and as far as Cheltenham Spa , Leamington and Gloucester . |
| 27 | His long legs , one draped casually over the other , stretched and tightened the fabric on strong thighs . |
| 28 | Another thing which makes Nanking look less cluttered is the absence of the horse- and donkey-drawn vehicles which one saw all over the place in North China , including the main streets of Peking and Sian . |
| 29 | I lived in the Department of Sonsonate but we went all over the place looking for work . |
| 30 | So we went all over the place . |