Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heir to the throne , a shy , sensitive boy , was often held upside down over the lavatory by schoolmates who delighted in pulling the chain . |
| 2 | He would be able to stretch his legs out over the end . |
| 3 | We shook hands on the deal and I grabbed the handles and began to push my first cock sparrow back over the bridge towards the Whitechapel Road . |
| 4 | He moved away from her and swung his legs back over the side of the bed . |
| 5 | The windows are open to the night , spilling the sound of the pretenders ' first album out over the slope of grass towards the small loch and the lights of the library and Admin buildings on the far side . |
| 6 | Verily , these people are set upon pushing the noise boat out over the horizon until it arrives … somewhere . |
| 7 | The technique of panning , therefore , is to cause the gold to sink in the pan by jiggling it about and washing the gold-free surface gravel out over the rim of the pan . |
| 8 | The transmission faded and he frowned , casting his mind back over the conversation . |
| 9 | Henry cast his mind back over the evening . |
| 10 | Whey-faced and wobbling , she slowly rises to a kneeling position behind the chair and peers out over a rampart of faded chintz , searching the room for the source of my voice . |
| 11 | These rich passenger vessels , if that is what they are , have a high prow and a relatively low stern ; a carved representation of a leopard or lioness stretches and peers out over the stern . |
| 12 | He woke First Man and made him eat , too and ‘ Adam ’ threw the apple core out over the crowd 's heads . |
| 13 | When I fly out from the nest over the moors to its great and awesome cliff and gyre on the winds out over the sea then can I call myself a Wrath eagle . ’ |
| 14 | They put something like 30,000 Chinese refugees back over the border each year and it was a custom of international law that such immigrants are received back , she said . |
| 15 | And this policeman , I were coming down Lane off over the hump back bridge . |
| 16 | A successful £13.1m rights issue in January this year helped offset the £14.2m spent on acquisitions designed to focus the business on over the counter products which now comprise 25pc of group turnover . |
| 17 | IT 'S DIFFICULT to come up with a definitive explanation as to why , but the music industry is currently going through its worst trough in over a decade . |
| 18 | Now , having beaten West Indies three times in quick succession after not having beaten them for years , outclassing New Zealand 2–0 out there , the first team in over a decade to win a Test rubber there , and of course reaching the World Cup final , England are now a force to be reckoned with . |
| 19 | A cheery bing-bong-a new addition , the kind of chime you hear in airports-peals out over the PA system . |
| 20 | I estimated that perhaps fifteen minutes ' fishing would salve my honour , and not expecting to catch anything , I let the wind flag my flies out over the water . |
| 21 | He raised the tip of the rod , and gave the slightest flick of his wrist , swinging the line in a smooth curve out over the water . |
| 22 | As I have described , she had consulted me many years back over a libel matter which I had discouraged her — unsuccessfully — from pursuing , with calamitous financial results ; but I was able to give her a little assistance in another matter which to some small extent repaired the damage arising from the first disaster . |
| 23 | 3 Tightly roll the pastry up over the almond filling . |
| 24 | It then took the rest of the century to get my leather jacket on over the plaster . |
| 25 | ‘ So we 'll keep the long stuff down over the season and see what flowers come up . ’ |
| 26 | From Gourette you can continue to climb , bending now sharply to the left on the way up to the Col d'Aubisque , though pausing above Gourette at a viewpoint called the Crêtes Blanches , where there is a hotel and , more to the point , a wonderful view back down over the ski village in its cirque as well as westwards to the peaks on the far side of the Ossau valley . |
| 27 | The way he stood , I remarked to the Reverend Feather , the way he bowed his head down over the loss of your mother , Stephen . |
| 28 | Botham stood there with bat poised and with casual ease lifted the ball back over the bowler 's head for six runs . |
| 29 | There is no close accounting of who owes what to whom but there is a tacit understanding by all concerned that there is a moral obligation to balance things out over a period . |
| 30 | Auntie Kate , as they called the old wife , proved ‘ a dear old soul , and of course the old boy , he used to tell us all stories about over the sea . ’ |