Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wore their Sunday black and were climbing along the path over the hill , girding it as if with an emblematic mourning ribbon . |
| 2 | He said to protesters : ‘ I think the Timex situation is an indication of what has been happening in the country over the last 10 to 15 years . ’ |
| 3 | Looking through the window over the sink , Ruth could see the little paved yard leading to the workroom where she had struggled to learn the craft of fine hand-sewing , so long ago . |
| 4 | Anna May buttoned her coat and scampered away , swarming like a monkey over the wall at the back of the alley and vanishing into the night . |
| 5 | The views are stunning , looking to the sea over the Kyle of Tongue , to Ben Hope dominating the west and the wilderness of North Sutherland stretching away almost infinitely to the south . |
| 6 | Several of the planks , including those that had given way under Harry 's weight , had without that beam 's support simply been hanging out in space , resting like a seesaw over the previous beam but otherwise supported only by the tight fit of each plank against the next . |
| 7 | The LP , as yet untitled , will showcase him chattering like a sten-gun over a slinky , African-ish reggae backing . |
| 8 | Go left at the post and descent the track leading to a footbridge over a stream . |
| 9 | A small cottage was next to the terrace houses and like them had no garden but just a tiny yard and then came a doorway leading to the flat over the archway of Dean 's Yard . |
| 10 | By this time , Lou and Charlie had moved too — the business had been running down for a long period and there was no point in staying in a flat over a shop that did n't exist any more . |
| 11 | And when because the family doctor really know whe anything that was happening but was holding on the phone over the phone , oh he 's got a pain you know . |
| 12 | A dead thing hanging in a noose over the stairs . |
| 13 | Taff was pointing at two bright flares hanging in the sky over the farm a short distance away . |
| 14 | I 've seen him crying like a child over a dead baby he carried in . |
| 15 | Cruising into the lead over a furlong out , Nicer soon sprinted clear to beat Goodnight Kiss by two lengths , with Lester Piggott 's mount Danse Royale a short head away in third . |
| 16 | Our results suggest that DNA binding to a sequence over the transcription initiation site is not sufficient for autoregulation as protein VT2 specifically interacts with the HSV-1 IE-3 consensus site yet evidence from transfection assays ( 17 ) and also the recombinant HSV-140 virus ( 13 ) suggests that intact 140k fails to repress this IE-3 promoter . |
| 17 | Notable absentees included President Doe of Liberia , currently threatened by a rebellion ; President Houphouët-Boigny of Côte d'Ivoire , who was facing mounting dissent ; and President Mobutu of Zaïre , who was dealing with a crisis over the alleged massacre of students at Lubumbashi . |
| 18 | Some of the time the Germans at one end of the stadium were hearing the French translation , while their own language was floating with the wind over the top of the stadium and down to Lake Geneva . |
| 19 | In older systems , downpipes may lead into hoppers ( or rainwater heads ) which are connected to a single downpipe discharging via a shoe over a gully . |
| 20 | They were sitting in the kitchen over a cup of tea . |
| 21 | The best time to get people to talk about themselves is when you are sitting around the table over a meal or having tea , and when they are relaxed and are not likely to be diverted by other activities . |
| 22 | One fellow was haggling with a customer over the price of a heavy silver buckle . |
| 23 | PINT-SIZED Denise Gilliland sent a would-be car thief packing with a crack over the head from her trusty rolling pin . |
| 24 | The trouble flared just before the final whistle when Maradona tried to stop a Cadiz defender intervening in a dispute over a foul . |
| 25 | Some thought that he had been paid to attack the Visigoths by Gaiseric , king of the Vandals , who were now settled in North Africa ; others that he was making good a claim to be the husband of princess Honoria , daughter of Valentinian III , or that he was intervening in a dispute over the succession to the kingship of the Franks . |
| 26 | He fell from power in 1987 , resigning from the Politburo over the slow pace of reform . |
| 27 | He imagined it as it would be , centred in red and gold on a black flag , high on a standard , waving in the wind over the stadiums where they would hold their rallies , a symbol of a proud and new Germany , the Fatherland in its true glory . |
| 28 | He was soon running errands for half a crown a day , sleeping on a board over the bath and doing Musgrave a favour by playing the toyboy to his wife . |