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 .
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