Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was still praying as she emptied the bucket over the logs . |
| 2 | Excavations below the floor revealed the slab over the grave of Melangell and the foundations of the 12th century apse . |
| 3 | A series of contacts with the CNAA from 1965 produced the controversies over the attempt to introduce full-time courses in various disciplines , and to combine them with sandwich courses , with Brighton 's first full-time courses in engineering being approved at the end of that year . |
| 4 | Labour MPs attacked the Government over the decision to abolish the zero rating of VAT on gas and electricity bills for individual homes . |
| 5 | I pulled into the farmyard and bounced the BMW over the cobbles to where half a dozen cars were parked in front of the farmhouse , a long , low stone building probably about a century old . |
| 6 | Leonora nodded obediently , but the moment he 'd gone she drew the kettle over the heat on the Aga before going upstairs with her little hoard of shopping . |
| 7 | ‘ That donkey has to be explained , ’ shouted the Brigadier over the racket of the baaing sheep and the barking man . |
| 8 | Boris Pintar , 44 , told police he found the shells over the years while tilling near Gorizia , Italy . |
| 9 | Sabrina traced the counter over the kegs . |
| 10 | He asked about her journey , and sitting beside him in the car she recounted the mix-up over the sleeper numbers , enjoying , still , hearing herself speak French . |
| 11 | Only the day before , Jean-Claude had told him how , when he visited the room over the café six months after Montaine 's suicide , he had smelt her presence . |
| 12 | She cast a glance over the assortment of coffee-mugs littering the surface , and sniffed disparagingly . |
| 13 | The Stravinsky was a welcome up-beat to the new work and it drew a veil over a performance of the overture which apart from a cracking final Presto was emminently forgettable . |
| 14 | The defendant 's employees erected a tent over a manhole and surrounded the tent with paraffin lamps . |
| 15 | Well when I was about five , one morning , my father fixed a cushion over the back bone of the bike . |
| 16 | Just as I gave the final push , my hand found a rope over the end of the ship . |
| 17 | Outside the Roman city walls ( though in the heart of the modern city ) lay a great cemetery area ; and here , between 379 and 386 , St Ambrose built a basilica over the martyria of two Roman martyrs , St Gervasius and St Protasius ; and beside them in his own basilica Ambrose himself was laid to rest . |
| 18 | I shouted a warning over the R/T and raked my 88 from nose to tail . |
| 19 | This is a device we used that created a vacuum over the mother 's abdomen for regular periods during the pregnancy . |
| 20 | " This is the whisky and here 's the water , " Nicandra poised the watercroft over the tooth-glass . |
| 21 | He dropped the gangplank over the stern and wheeled the motor cycle down . |
| 22 | Folly lashed the aggressor over the head with her roses — which immediately disintegrated in a hail of scented petals . |
| 23 | Lady Patricia Ramsay , a cousin of the King , painted the panels over the doors . |
| 24 | And Leicester might have snatched all three points at the end as substitute Ian Ormondroyd set up Bobby Davison but the player blasted the ball over the bar . |
| 25 | Then skipper Andy Townsend blasted the ball over the bar with only the keeper to beat . |
| 26 | Carol and Melissa pushed the twins across the road and then lifted the pushchair over the shop doorstep . |
| 27 | They lifted the canal over the hill , raising the water level by 75 feet . |
| 28 | Things started to go wrong after just 16 minutes when Steve Norris raced through and lobbed the ball over the heads for the first goal … |
| 29 | Jazz clouted the skinhead over the ear so fast that the boy never saw it coming and reeled back , off balance . |
| 30 | McIntosh 's voice grew stern , as it directed the crowd over the helicopter 's loudspeaker . |