Example sentences of "up and over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oncoming bikers seemed intent on taking the short cut up and over the Aussie 's Nissan . |
| 2 | Morale only picked up after the restart at the beginning of a 70-mile , three-day run and walk up and over Mount Chirripo . |
| 3 | Less than one million years ago an eruption of this sort took place near Naples ; the ignimbrites erupted spread out over 5,000 square kilometres , and performed the almost incredible feat of rushing up and over mountain passes 600 metres high . |
| 4 | The wind was hissing loudly over them , whipping off their tops and spraying them into a conveyor-belt of sand , an opaque draught , streaming across the road and up and over the dunes on the other side . |
| 5 | Move your hands to the forehead and smoothly stroke the brow , hand-over-hand up and over the hair to the crown of the head . |
| 6 | Some companies assume that their staff accept that colleagues X and Y will move up and over their heads , and are content to see it happen . |
| 7 | Now the cruisers ' engines abraded up and over the hills , their clackering drone in need of silencers . |
| 8 | A gaggle of Bonefish 's children were in constant , but changing , attendance , sometimes helping me , but more often chasing each other in a complicated game of tag up and over Masquerade 's hull . |
| 9 | Sunlight reflected from a window among the palm trees to lance a sliver of dazzling light at our cockpit , then the reflection was gone and we were at sea level , engines screaming , and I fumbled for the camera , prayed it had not broken when it fell from the ceiling , and took another picture just before Maggot lifted the aircraft 's nose so that we swooped up and over the palm trees that edged the beach . |
| 10 | Until we drove up and over the Atlas , I had not thought for years about our time in London . |
| 11 | While attempting to make the wheelchair or baby-buggy pusher 's life easier , planners often do not help by making ramps up and over steps too steep for any but the most fearless . |
| 12 | VIRTUALLY all the narrow gauge quarry lines which once wound up and over many of our hills and fells were closed before infamous Dr Beeching even knew how to pronounce his first branch line — never mind think about closing it ! |
| 13 | Gaining enough height and momentum for the somersault would have required the energy of a team of acrobats to propel him up and over the horns . |
| 14 | Eventually , the bird builds the walls up and over itself to form a dome , but leaves a neat entrance hole at the side . |
| 15 | You could spend weeks pedalling up and over the North York Moors , but if you 've only got a weekend to spare , then the Rosedale area is without doubt the place to go . |
| 16 | He lumbered into the back of the truck , pulling himself up and over the tailboard . |
| 17 | Above us , tiny rounded ties sang high pitched , squeaky phrases , two-note chants , as they acrobat Ed up and over twigs , peering at the underneath of fat green sycamore buds for grubs . |
| 18 | There are infrared-sensing security lights on the wall of the house and if they go on then the whole thing 's off ; I 'm up and over the wall and back into the woods and away . |
| 19 | It ran right up and over his cheekbones , leading one to suspect that it was important for him to shave his eye sockets and forehead daily , if he wanted to avoid becoming altogether bestial . |
| 20 | His forearms were lying on the desk and his skinny torso was framed by a proscenium arch of ring binders , set on shelves that marched up and over his head . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , ’ says Howard , ‘ I think they might be quite interested in the way we 're bringing up great sedimentary land masses from the south , and driving them up and over the geosynclinal rocks in their path . ’ |
| 22 | Adam was thrown forward , up and over the shattered windscreen and on to the bonnet . |
| 23 | Of single size with metal up and over door . |
| 24 | Up and over door with parking for two other vehicles , storage space . |
| 25 | Theda huddled against the bedhead , drawing the covers up and over her breasts , as she watched him tidy his clothes and wrap the wrecked neckcloth carelessly about his throat . |
| 26 | It extends up and over all but the highest mountains , between whose feet all main roads and railroads must thread their way . |
| 27 | They pop up and over it , and when they land on the other side and they slow down a bit . |
| 28 | It was n't only goats that would struggle up and over any obstacles in their paths ! |
| 29 | Headed back up by to , hook ball , looking for , gets his head underneath and it 's just over the top of the bar , he got the full force of his head beneath that ball and it looped up and over the top of er an anxious looking Paul crossbar . |