Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the long curling hair hanging lankly over the driver 's neck , Howard has noticed , is a tumour the size of a sparrow 's egg . |
| 2 | Between these , gold-dark , dark-gold and violent pink , lay Lady Rose Martindale , solid but not fat or for in less , indeed very woman-shaped , in pink-and-brown striped silk bathing suit , with gold hair spattered softly over the brown flesh of her shoulders and whitish sand speckled on the gleam of her thighs where she had rolled from side to side . |
| 3 | Cross the pastry strips alternately over the filling to form a plait . |
| 4 | Right : A buddha figure presides serenely over the pine panelled bathroom |
| 5 | The assumption made is that the capital gain or loss occurs evenly over the remaining life of the bond . |
| 6 | The wind dropped gradually over the next 20 minutes . |
| 7 | One girder sailed straight over the sheer drop at a bend where Rosa used to make my heart enter my mouth , plunging for all the world like some bolt of Jehovah 's vengeance a metre into the earth of the football field below where its shaft stuck up angrily for some days . |
| 8 | And there was plenty of crap strewn all over the pavement , so he had to be more careful . |
| 9 | Like all children , his mind jumps all over the place . |
| 10 | As his mind wanders guiltily over the past and longingly towards a future which even he now realises can never be , the Passacaglia motif anchors him more and more inescapably in the present , with the posse of Borough vigilantes coming nearer and nearer . |
| 11 | bit this traffic because there 's snow falling all over the county there are going to be people erm in all sorts of er er problems . |
| 12 | He may have gone into something else later — ’ his mind ran rapidly over the likelihoods-'publishing , a university — I just do n't know . |
| 13 | As she hurried down a long corridor , her mind groped backwards over the events of the previous night . |
| 14 | ALL OUR YESTERDAYS : Fifty years on the American Flag flies again over the Churchill Hospital in Oxford … just for today . |
| 15 | The auk tribe ( guillemots , razorbills and puffins ) , which spend the winter scattered widely over the ocean , will also be heading inshore towards their breeding cliffs . |
| 16 | Light from the ceiling moved uncertainly over the carved wood Quiss was still staring at . |
| 17 | Her gaze moved slowly over the dazzling white decks , and into the dark well of the cabin . |
| 18 | Jenny 's laugh came lightly over the line . |
| 19 | The trooper climbed reluctantly over the handrail and then lowered himself onto the supporting props below . |
| 20 | When a pilot activates his reversers , he also pours on the power to create reverse thrust , to have the blast from the jet engine going forward over the wings instead of backwards . |
| 21 | Furthermore the wind had dropped , the sun shone brilliantly over the ice , and already , early in the morning , small boys were sliding through the radiant air , whooping and hallooing , and sending broken boughs skidding across the frozen surface with a hollow , reverberating whoosh . |
| 22 | In Munich , the Stalingrad disaster prompted the group of students who , largely inspired by moral and religious idealism , had the previous year formed the ‘ White Rose ’ movement and circulated anti-Nazi leaflets in Munich University , to stage a suicidally brave public demonstration of their detestation for Hitler and Nazism in a defiant manifesto displayed all over the university buildings : |
| 23 | On reconnaissance nights , the submarine had to use precious hours of moonless darkness while she charged her batteries before trimming down in the water with her saddle-tanks just awash , the slight swell breaking occasionally over the casing . |
| 24 | How often is that sad refrain heard all over the English-speaking world ! |
| 25 | She turned to us , her fat bottom moving smoothly over the polished seat of her chair . |
| 26 | When the hedgehog travels furtively over the lawn , |
| 27 | The main myth being punctured , or punctuated , is the old erroneous view that humanity evolved gradually over the aeons from an ape forebear . |
| 28 | The brown paper bag tied with white string hit the pavement , split and corn went all over the place . |
| 29 | Her tilted smile put the usual dent , something just less than a dimple , at the corner of her mouth as she pulled on a robe bought only three days previously , sumptuous emerald silk with an elaborate multicoloured dragon embroidered all over the back . |
| 30 | The complexities proved to be even greater than expected , particularly since the rate of claim for compensation increased considerably over the years up to the setting up of the committee . |