Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun] [noun] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They chucked the peach stones over the parapet so that peach trees would grow in the garden next year and surprise everyone . |
| 2 | She managed to wrench her gaze away , and with conscious deliberation drew the dust sheet over a fruitwood table . |
| 3 | On 9 April 1946 , he demonstrated car 303 on the Marton route after the regular service had finished , to members of the press who described the riding qualities over the disintegrating track as ‘ sensational ’ . |
| 4 | But for patients in high EE homes , the continued use of these drugs reduced the relapse rate over a nine-month period among Brown and his colleagues ' sample by one third ( 66 per cent to 46 per cent ) , and in Vaughn and Leff 's sample , by about one half . |
| 5 | Philip pulled the camouflage net over the entrance . |
| 6 | It was already nightfall when Whitlock crossed the Heuss Bridge over the Rhine and turned the Golf Corbio into Rampenstrasse , his eyes screwed up behind his tinted glasses as he tried to distinguish the numbers , many of them faded and indistinct , on the rows of warehouses lining the river bank . |
| 7 | I saw the glass case over the mantle , filled . |
| 8 | Check for colour arrangement , select the fabric and then lay the nylon panels over the plan using the bias and ensuring that the ripstop squares are symmetrical on each half of the kite . |
| 9 | Now in the care of a young Englishman , Jonathan Pease , at Chantilly , Golden Pheasant inflicted Nashwan 's only defeat when he took the Prix Niel over the Arc course and distance three weeks ago and , being lightly raced , he looks capable of improvement . |
| 10 | For Green , the flexibility of the proposal allowed for the meeting of local demand by either or both organisations , it encouraged further co-operative endeavour between them and facilitated the WEA role over the establishment of a county federation of students as an organisational framework to help overcome the perennial difficulty of isolated university extension centres . |
| 11 | Nashwan won the Eclipse Stakes over the Champion Stakes distance at Sandown in July but was disappointing in the Group Two Prix Niel at Longchamp on his latest outing , finishing third to subsequent Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe flop Golden Pheasant . |
| 12 | The Heathite ministers effectively won the Cabinet debates over the public-spending round in the autumn of 1980 , but their victory was short-lived . |
| 13 | I rattled the plastic cover over the Amstrad but it was firmly locked in place . |
| 14 | A theory for this cloud was proposed by Chang and Burnetti in Nature ( vol 314 , page 676 ) : that a meteor had encountered the cloud deck just as it shattered , producing heat that warmed the cloud layer over a large area . |
| 15 | The unfortunate Capel Junior made a terrible hash of things and belted the ball yards over the bar . |
| 16 | FERRANTI 'S shares encountered hectic trading when they returned from suspension yesterday as a host of conflicting rumours swept the stock market over the company 's future . |