Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] over [art] [noun sg] of " 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 | Endill peered slowly over the edge of it . |
| 3 | The dark , lazy appraisal moved down over the jut of her breasts beneath the soft material , and she shivered involuntarily , despite the warm night . |
| 4 | WHATEVER breast-beating occurred elsewhere over the outcome of the Waco siege , it was not to be found in Nashville , where the National Rifle Association ( NRA ) has just held its annual meeting . |
| 5 | They stopped just over the brow of a hill . |
| 6 | After his death his empire could barely be sustained by the new rulers ( including Charles the Bald and Charles the Fat — is it possible to hold an empire together when the populace is taking the mickey out of you to that extent ? ) and crumbled away over a period of two centuries . |
| 7 | After ten minutes , Callaghan peered wretchedly over the rim of the crater . |
| 8 | Doubts surfaced yesterday over the participation of Royal Athlete in Saturday 's big race . |
| 9 | The chicken , which she next drew from the fridge , had , so the label proclaimed , ranged freely over a district of France before being hygienically and humanely slaughtered and packed . |
| 10 | You are able to collect the information detailed below over a number of informal visits , and are now required to present your preliminary conclusions and recommendations for Davenport 's consideration . |
| 11 | They were in their plastic bags on the outdoor grounds , and as the sun came up , it came up over the top of the hill and hit the silver pyramid and there was David on stage singing . |
| 12 | When eventually the moon came up over the edge of the trees he was able to see a group of four men and three horses coming towards him . |
| 13 | A moment later , a second rider came up over the lip of rock and drew up beside the first . |
| 14 | There are still a quarter of a million unemployed people in Scotland who are testimony to the dreadful human misery caused by over a decade of Tory rule and the terminal decline of the UK economy , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Both men hurtled on over the top of Barbara in a tangle of limbs , crashing to the office floor . |
| 16 | While most participants perceived the problem they differed somewhat over the matter of its resolution . |
| 17 | The overhead door swung up easily to his touch and the light splayed out over the gravel of the drive and the unkempt verges of silvered grass . |
| 18 | Above , in what appeared a dome of infinite proportion , a timeless expanse of grey hung menacingly over the hamlet of Elling . |
| 19 | There was a lot more rhubarb , along the lines of ‘ Yes , what ? ’ and ‘ What are we going to sing , brothers ? ’ and then Mrs Quigley cut in over the top of this with a cadenza that would not have disgraced Dame Kiri Te Kanawa . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He was thirty-eight years old with a youthfully handsome face , tousled auburn hair that hung untidily over the collar of his open-necked white shirt and a sturdy , muscular physique which he kept in shape with a daily five-kilometre run followed by a punishing workout in his own private gymnasium . |
| 22 | As she laughed , his eyes travelled briefly over her features , a smile in them , and then brushed lightly over the frame of copper that had struck him with so devastating an effect . |
| 23 | This time she saw pebbles laid out over the whole of the surface , more or less evenly spaced . |
| 24 | Turning her head , Polly sipped her coffee and gazed out over the expanse of water . |
| 25 | Lissa wandered over to the window and gazed out over the expanse of carefully tended shrubbery that bordered the car park . |
| 26 | ‘ As soon as you stepped out of the car I knew something was wrong , ’ her friend confided later over a cup of tea . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Behind him on the back seats of the bus four teenagers argued loudly over the cost of the litre of cider and half bottle of vodka they passed between them . |
| 29 | But because of the height they looked right over the roof of the main building of Anpetuwi Lodge . |
| 30 | Secret talks with the government , which went on over a period of more than a year , were also broken off . |