Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pos pn] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were able to exchange ideas and opinions with them — so much so , that by the end of the day one archaeological student was using my detector over the spoil heaps , while I turned my hand to the ‘ trowel and brush . ’ |
| 2 | Groping my way over the ribs , my heart thudding , I heartily agreed with him . |
| 3 | It is to the reptiles themselves one must turn to find the greatest display of armoured scales that are all-enveloping , protecting their wearers over the whole surface of the body . |
| 4 | At one stage of the race there were runners on every part of the route , the continuous line winding its way over the fell like a colourful , sinuous snake , disappearing from time to time in the swirling mists . |
| 5 | Tossing his case over the top of it , he scrambled up and dropped lightly down on the other side . |
| 6 | He scooped up some pellets and pushed them into an empty flower pot , keeping his thumb over the hole in the bottom . |
| 7 | Slinging his mac over the back of a pew he sat down and rested his feet on the one in front . |
| 8 | With his mother dead and his divorced wife living in Majorca , there is a side of Graeme Souness that the tabloids never acknowledge , a more solitary side of his life , walking his dogs over the hillsides near Edinburgh , wrapped up in football , obsessed with success and a wealthy victim of Scotland 's passion for football . |
| 9 | Cranston stared moodily down at the floorboards , scuffing his boots over the polished surface . |
| 10 | ‘ We must get all this ! ’ cried the young producer to his assistant , driving his Rover over the moors from Newcastle and pointing to the horizon . |
| 11 | No we wo n't , because , essentially , if you give yourself one target like the exchange rate , then you lose control over one or possibly both of interest rates and money supply , both of which the government has always claimed , are absolutely fundamental to maintaining their control over the economy . |
| 12 | We made it clear that in our views , the Western capitalist countries and their allies are not so much concerned over the ‘ liberation of Kuwait ’ as they are over maintaining their monopoly over the oil and money of the Arab Gulf countries . |
| 13 | With December seeing only 2 full weeks activity and with Scotland enjoying its holiday over the New Year I trust Scottish colleagues enter 1991 appropriately refreshed and renewed . |
| 14 | Picking my way over the cobbles , slimy and damp with centuries of hiding from the sun , I reached the musty room where I collected my raincoat from the attendant . |
| 15 | Picking her way over the rough ground and through the hazards , she gained the kitchen entrance . |
| 16 | The French retained fishing rights and rights to use the western shore as a base which turned out to be a source of dispute for almost two centuries , but the British were clearly establishing their control over the whole Atlantic seacoast . |
| 17 | He led the way into the next field , a pasture : and here they all fell to feeding , nibbling their way over the grass as easily as though their warren were close by . |
| 18 | AI has appealed to Brazilian parliamentarians expressing its concern over the moves to reinstate the death penalty . |
| 19 | Being Saturday , there were a number of burly walkers picking their way over the granite from both directions which , unlike the presence of the bermuda-shorted brigade puffing their way up the other side of Ben Nevis , was curiously comforting . |
| 20 | They had exchanged the slow passage through the forest for picking their way over the rocks and boulders that littered the banks of the upper reaches of the river . |
| 21 | He lowered his own head again , allowing his lips to pressure gently over her face , seeking their pleasure over the rise and fall of her face and neck . |
| 22 | She touched her cheek wonderingly , cupping her hand over the kiss . |
| 23 | Her mam would say nothing , just sit there white-faced , cupping her hand over the latest bruise , not daring even to blink in case he said she was sleeping in God 's time when all he wanted was to raise his children decent . |
| 24 | No more talk about scattering her ashes over the Mediterranean by moonlight . |
| 25 | During the winter of 1936–7 , Franco therefore brought the right-wing militias firmly under army control and set about establishing his authority over the political parties themselves . |
| 26 | Picking his way over the diarrhoea , which had splattered all over the ground and avoiding the frantically flailing hooves of the shocked , utterly terrified , pony , Raimundo grasped her headcollar and , aided by Umberto and the other grooms , yanked her to her feet . |
| 27 | An experiment with a psychic healer passing his hands over the polymer-coated slide , resulted in a tearing of the film membrane in several places . |
| 28 | He made them by scattering his droppings over the sky and this is why the grass and the trees grow so thick on the world . |
| 29 | He smiled , holding the hollowed column lovingly between his hands and smoothing his fingers over the spiralling pattern of the wu-tu , the ‘ five noxious creatures ’ — toad , scorpion , snake , centipede and gecko — then drew it on , easing himself into its oiled soft-leather innards and fastening its leather straps about his waist . |
| 30 | she say that , and she say that and she 's always writing your name over the books and everything , okay , oh yeah , you must ask him if he fancies me and love him and ask him why he do n't he phone me that often , ask him that , you must say , right yeah , but do n't tell him that I told you to ask him , yeah |