Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A dead thing hanging in a noose over the stairs . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One fellow was haggling with a customer over the price of a heavy silver buckle . |
| 7 | PINT-SIZED Denise Gilliland sent a would-be car thief packing with a crack over the head from her trusty rolling pin . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |