Example sentences of "[verb] over [art] wall " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herr Nordern would , yes , although he would no more have refused than he would have tried to jump over the Wall . |
| 2 | Poisoned wells , putrid carcases slung over the walls . |
| 3 | But moments later , he emerged with his freight , to find that Godolphin was already marching out of the copse that screened the Retreat from both the house ( empty , of course ; in ruins ) and any casual spy who peered over the wall . |
| 4 | Stella walked to the poplar-trees and peered over the wall into the field . |
| 5 | I 'm still not keen on that side of it — it 's nice to be popular , it 's nice to be loved , but it 's not so nice to be chased round and to be on the front page of the paper every day of your life , with people climbing over the wall all day long . |
| 6 | One , Catherine Barton , absconded after supper by climbing over the wall and did not return until the next morning after 7 o'clock . |
| 7 | Without thinking about it she was climbing over the wall . |
| 8 | The biggest attraction hereabouts for seasoned cavers is , however , located over the wall south-west of Sunset Hole , where an awesome rift in the hillside admits a stream . |
| 9 | Enemy heads began appearing over the wall . |
| 10 | Looking over the wall corner , the crater of Cow Pot is revealed and should be left severely alone ; instead , turn south to a cluster of boulders around an iron manhole cover set in the ground . |
| 11 | He said , ‘ Someone came over the wall . |
| 12 | Unless he came over the wall — and there 's broken glass along the top . ’ |
| 13 | It can be said to be the wind rustling through the trees , when first heard as the Tsarevich climbs over the wall to find his Princess . |
| 14 | Moreover , he noticed an electric lighting cable passing over the wall to an adjoining house , which he found was occupied by a senior official . |
| 15 | Kyle 's mother was pushed over the wall by the impact . |
| 16 | I clambered over the wall separating his garden from the orchard and followed him into the cottage . |
| 17 | They all shook hands with me , and the Frenchman gave me a bag containing one dozen eggs before I clambered over the wall and into the orchard . |
| 18 | I clambered over the wall and dropped on the other side and made my way quickly across the field in the direction of the cottage . |
| 19 | She 's used you before , to get her stuff back , to establish an alibi for when Jack was going over the wall . |
| 20 | So we get him back and he gets maybe an extra six months for going over the wall . |
| 21 | Soon , Mr Peter Fechter , aged 18 , the first of nearly 200 East Germans killed in the last 28 years while trying to escape , was shot as he climbed over the Wall near Checkpoint Charlie . |
| 22 | Willie watched them as they ran through the graveyard and climbed over the wall to the lane . |
| 23 | Early on July 9 , 1982 , suffering from the strain of his marriage break-up , Mr Fagan climbed over the walls of Buckingham Palace and found himself — by chance — at the Queen 's bedside , he said . |
| 24 | Two prisoners escaped over the wall of Oxford prison last night by tying clothes together . |
| 25 | ‘ The fruits of the park have been guarded latterly , not by a dragon , but by fierce bulls , one of which drove from his labours a celebrated artist , who , with difficulty , escaped over the wall into the lower park . ’ |
| 26 | To bring him up to the required standard he had to go to a boarding preparatory school , which he loathed so much he escaped over the wall and hitchhiked home . |
| 27 | I glanced over the wall of the churchyard opposite . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't know why they bother to have gates at this school , ’ remarked Mildred , as another three pupils soared over the wall on their brooms . |
| 29 | It soared over the wall and hurtled into the side of the keep , enlarging the hole already there . |
| 30 | They are no longer playing with it or enjoying it , but try with a numb next-door-to-crying persistence to scramble over the wall and climb the slag-bank . |