Example sentences of "over [art] [noun sg] and [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore the usual periods of calm and quiet in the routine of a building do not exist , for example , outside normal office hours , over the weekend and during the annual holidays . |
| 2 | The September moon had sent its beams over the bed and into the corners of the bedroom so that everything seemed vivid , rather stark , a little ghostly . |
| 3 | There was an oxygen tent over the bed and in the dull light that was burning , the young officer 's thin face looked deep pink . |
| 4 | Now on that twenty feet long , now I 'm up about say , you can say anything like about fifteen feet up in the in the air , might be less than that and then you got twenty feet up like that , well then there used to be wire and used to have a big wheel in top , which you could n't go over the top and with a wire , then I used to have a sling chain , my main hook and that was thirteen foot long and you take th that and on , on working on top of the lorry , see you got to be so careful and there 's men working on that lorry as well , course I broke the wheel . |
| 5 | Near Seixal the road goes into a tunnel , and a waterfall cascades dramatically over the top and into the sea . |
| 6 | On a wet winter 's day when the sea is at its roughest , the sight of the waves pounding against the bottom of the cliffs , throwing spray up over the top and into the fields , is breathtaking . |
| 7 | Smooth the fondant over the top and down the sides of the cake , making sure that the corners are smooth and defined . |
| 8 | The light over the water and on the folds of the mountains which formed the banks seemed to change almost by the minute and was an unending delight until nightfall . |
| 9 | It went over the green and into the crowd . |
| 10 | Her scream whirled across the waves like debris in a tornado ; she pelted over the sand and through the trees like a creature when hunters close in for the kill . |
| 11 | I had thought that I might ride in a carretta to the edge of the desert , and then walk away over the sand and into the sun . |
| 12 | Swallowing the last of the scone he ran over the drive and into the house to see Martin disappearing into the study . |
| 13 | They were checked again then carried on over the drawbridge and through the gate . |
| 14 | Place mixture into a lightly greased 23cm/9in round flan dish and press the mixture over the bottom and up the sides . |
| 15 | He burst over the threshold and into the house , his right arm ripped open from the wrist to the elbow . |
| 16 | Clare was set to watch sheep and geese on Helpston heath as a child of seven , and spent years of his childhood , and of his later life , wandering over the heath and through the patches of woodland that survived in the parish . |
| 17 | Up and down they rushed , behind the old oak walls , over the ceiling and under the floor . |
| 18 | The firm now employs 14 solicitors and associates , who are completing 10 to 15 house purchases a day , and has clients all over the country and across the globe . |
| 19 | from right next to the needle down to the point and just go round it and then you weave it in and out like basket stitching and out over the cotton and under the cotton |
| 20 | Elsewhere , individual protesters were being held down while Mosley 's guards beat them over the head and about the face . |
| 21 | Then down I go , over the edge and into the pointy pit overflowing with Lord knows-how-many fathoms of stinking nest … and Lord knows-how-many Crabs of the Prince of Darkness . |
| 22 | A.D. 850 — a calm morning with mist hanging over the river and through the forest . |
| 23 | These were men unmarked by battle who screamed indistinguishable news as they rode , so that over the river and through the trees you could glimpse the turning masks of grinning enemy faces , while on this side of the river the King put up his hand and Tuathal and his men came to a halt . |
| 24 | The ancient sandstone bridge at Bangor-on-Dee carries one-way traffic from Wrexham over the river and into the village but it has weathered badly in recent years possibly because of attack by acid rain . |
| 25 | A comfortable little dacha in the peace of the countryside , perhaps , or a manipulated exit visa , a chance to get over the border and over the wall ? |
| 26 | Lawton covered as Delaney raised himself , wriggling forward into the nearest pocket of shadow , as Forster and Silk came up like weird , black sea creatures that slithered silently over the rail and into the nearest cover of darkness . |
| 27 | With the aid of £700 , a few friends , some two-way radios , a car jack and a ladder made out of knitting needles , Bourke got Blake out of prison , over the wall and across the Channel to East Germany . |
| 28 | They all shook hands with me , and the Frenchman gave me a bag containing one dozen eggs before I clambered over the wall and into the orchard . |
| 29 | ‘ Then as she circled about she saw a mist come creeping over the sea and across the loch , thick and cold and grey . |
| 30 | The sun was getting low over the sea and in an hour or so it would dip below the horizon , where there were horizontal bars of dark colour . |