Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] over [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kelly carried on looking over the books but his heart was n't in it . |
| 2 | I wish it was yesterday , I wish I was just climbing over the rocks in dear comfortable Mrs McPhee who does n't mind getting wet and lets me breathe — ’ |
| 3 | Half the men were already straggling back into the Residency building or into the hospital in order to form a new position while the remainder did their best to hold off the sepoys who were already swarming over the ramparts . |
| 4 | With Labour and the Liberal Democrats still arguing over the terms of a possible deal based on proportional representation , the Tories intensified their attack on Mr Kinnock 's suitability for high office and the impact on sterling and interest rates of a Labour victory . |
| 5 | The crime remained unique , and lawmakers were still squabbling over the ramifications . |
| 6 | His head was still chewing over the problems he had discussed with his young students at the polytechnic , but his feet — as though contemptuous of all such academic preoccupations — had taken him by chance to a long , shabby street of bow-fronted houses that had obviously known better days . |
| 7 | His head was still chewing over the problems he had discussed with his young students at the polytechnic . |
| 8 | Instead , we ended up wandering over the moors above Hebden Bridge . |
| 9 | I ended up going over the falls and being held under for a long time , and thinking there was no way I was going to come up before the next wave came across . |
| 10 | We could have guessed that Abraham would end up paying over the odds , but not as much as this . |
| 11 | The works production shops were to remain laid out in the form described for progressive building and repairing , only marginally altering over the years to accommodate new designs and techniques , such as the Stanier all steel body panelling design of the early 1930s . |
| 12 | Garment workers , who were paid really bad wages and had a strike and struggled for union recognition , and I think that 's the thing that women have gone on doing over the years . |
| 13 | Probably yes , but what 's really happening is , you 're watching television and half your mind is taking it in , and the other half of your mind 's thinking , when I get back to work tomorrow , I 'm going to do so-and-so and so-and-so , because , yes , I 'll do , and you 're really chewing over the problems of today . |
| 14 | These songs are continually changing over the years . |