Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] over [art] [noun] " 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 | Now I realized how over the centuries this window must have provided an incomparable panorama of the goings-on in the village . |
| 3 | I waded out over the shallows until I came to them , and gathered the ones I could , looking up from my harvest as Esmerelda and kite struck out for the North Sea . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ The Faskally boatman brought me across the foot of the loch and I came straight over the hill to the Brig of Grandtully . ’ |
| 6 | I clambered back over the wall , crossed the orchard and , as usual , entered H.Q by the back door . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I stepped carefully over the city wall , which was less than a metre high , and walked slowly through the two main streets . |
| 10 | I stared out over the crowd . |
| 11 | There the colonnade was wider and the slender arches more open ; standing in the deep shade , I looked out over the tree-tops and the sea to the languishing ash-lilac mountains … a déjà vu feeling of having stood in the same place , before that particular proportion of the arches , that particular contrast of shade and burning landscape outside — I could n't say . |
| 12 | And when I thought back over the conversation , I realised that it was an extremely unlikely thing to have happened . |
| 13 | I thought back over the times I had watched the ploughing ; in late autumn at the potato harvest , and in the summer , slopping through the flooded paddy fields . |
| 14 | ‘ Things are obviously becoming very busy and I went in over the weekend to do a bit of work . |
| 15 | ‘ I went totally over the limit . |
| 16 | Consequently , I fell straight over a bench , + bruised my skin nastily . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , Doc , I do normally but I did n't over the weekend . ’ |
| 18 | What 's worse … when I travelled all over the lane , |
| 19 | I pondered hard over the reply to my friend 's question . |
| 20 | She gazed out over the flat , dark countryside as the lights of Ghent were left behind . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As she bent down over the fire , her nose-ring and the silver coins of her necklace glinted fiercely . |
| 23 | She wandered all over the stave and produced a curious counterpoint to the tune . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Drawing the car to a halt by a grass verge , she slumped dejectedly over the wheel , resting her head on her hands . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | When on 24 August 1921 she broke up over the Humber on a final exercise in sharp turns , Maitland , on board but not in command , died with forty-two others . |
| 28 | ‘ Adam 's a fascinating person , of course , ’ she stumbled inelegantly over the words , ‘ but I 'm not in love with him . ’ |
| 29 | She laughed all over the place at this . |
| 30 | In summer from the Ridgery you looked out over the tops of the trees . |