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 | 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 | 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 . |
12 | She wandered all over the stave and produced a curious counterpoint to the tune . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Drawing the car to a halt by a grass verge , she slumped dejectedly over the wheel , resting her head on her hands . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | ‘ Adam 's a fascinating person , of course , ’ she stumbled inelegantly over the words , ‘ but I 'm not in love with him . ’ |
17 | She laughed all over the place at this . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | If she went away over the holidays and she had plastic surgery and she came back looking like Cindy Crawford or , I do n't know , do you think people would react differently to her or do you think they 'd be disgusted ? |
20 | At first she went all over the place , this way and that , and then into a spin . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | I lived in the Department of Sonsonate but we went all over the place looking for work . |
25 | So we went all over the place . |
26 | And we actually then went down and we looked all over the place and there are quite a number of pallets that in fact are not properly stacked . |
27 | selection of them went all over the world collecting trees . |
28 | ‘ They met again over the years , too . |
29 | She drew in her head , shut the windows , pulled the heavy cream linen curtains , and switched on the lamps ; they glowed cheerfully over the primrose chair covers and the yellow silk bed quilt , upon which Adam lay naked . |
30 | They twinkled all over the hull in patterns which raced backwards and forwards and disappeared . |