Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Together we peered over the contents of a large glossy menu of unusual composition . |
| 2 | I felt the tears welling up in my eyes and suddenly they spilled over the sides and dripped down my cheeks . |
| 3 | And yesterday she jumped over the balcony right and Jones was sitting there . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Flupper showed us the deadly thorn bushes that wrap round their prey like octopuses : and then whooshed us off at savage speeds — sometimes so fast he aquaplaned over the water . |
| 5 | Then I leaned over the back of the truck , just avoiding a long rasping glissando from Martin 's slide , and grabbed the would-be mace maniac by the shoulders of her anorak . |
| 6 | She let out her pent-up breath in a loud gasp of relief ; then she bent over the handlebars and sent the bike whizzing as fast as she could pedal it across the remaining hundred yards or so of field . |
| 7 | And then it rolled away down the hill and then it went over the road and then it stopped right on the railway and then … and then … ’ |
| 8 | Then he vaulted over the breakwater , ran up the steps on to the prom and was lost to view . |
| 9 | He looked round to make sure that nobody was following him , and then he disappeared over the hill . |
| 10 | Or doing something , then he leapt over the camera . |
| 11 | Allen sat for a moment on the parapet , Marian saw him smile at her , then he slipped over the edge and the rope grew taut on the hook . |
| 12 | There he presided over the expansion of his French National Committee into a new , more broadly based provisional government known as the French Committee of National Liberation ( CFLN — Comité Français de Libération Nationale ) . |
| 13 | He heard the Direktor calling them back to work again , and he crossed to Ingrid who was nervously studying her score , her lips moving as yet again she went over the part she already knew in minute detail . |
| 14 | Time and time again we went over the information we had and what it meant , but made no progress . |
| 15 | As he filled her glass again he knocked over the salt cellar and quickly chucked the spilt salt over his left shoulder . |
| 16 | Again he dived over the lake , and again the rooks chased him and the ducks fled . |
| 17 | Secondly he presided over the integration of the Blackpool and Fleetwood Company in 1920 , reconstructing the electrical distribution system on the line . |