Example sentences of "[vb past] over [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The solid trapdoor lifted and crashed over onto the tiled floor , and his heart soared as the torch light revealed the wooden rungs of a ladder descending into the darkness below . |
| 2 | He moved over to the other side of the office and had begun searching through a well-stocked bookshelf when the phone on his desk rang close by Folly 's hand . |
| 3 | Athelstan stood for a moment in disbelief , then he moved over to the other bed post : there , in the centre , the artist had etched a life-like horse . |
| 4 | The play moved over to the other side of the field and they stopped their conversation for a moment to follow it . |
| 5 | An interesting natural experiment arose when the entire school moved over to the new pathway course in 1987 . |
| 6 | Miss Easterbrook moved over to the open notebook . |
| 7 | Some lesser American golfers , lured over by the open cheques that sponsors often have available , had in the past performed less than satisfactorily . |
| 8 | He wandered over to the far wall . |
| 9 | She wandered over to the chicken-wired window , and looked out . |
| 10 | Dougal wandered over to the uncurtained window . |
| 11 | Well he supposed to give up smoking , it had caused clotting in one of his legs and then it just whipped over to the other one , he 's had to have it cut off |
| 12 | On seeking to patent his process , Castner discovered that a similar patent had been lodged in Germany by Karl Kellner and made over to the powerful Solvay Company in Belgium . |
| 13 | A strangely-deserted sidewalk , Rex noted as he leapt out of the cab and stalked over to the fallen driver . |
| 14 | Today she closed the door quietly behind her , and tiptoed over to the polished wooden closet , as she always did , to look at her mother 's dresses . |
| 15 | Trying to avoid gazing at the grisly sight , the Leutnant sidled over to the statuesque Karnstein , and handed the envelope to her . |
| 16 | Breathing a sigh of relief , I drove over to the local airfield and arranged for the flight to take place a week earlier , just in case . |
| 17 | I simply climbed over the eight foot fence , strolled over to the main accomodation block and mingled with all the other prisoners there . |
| 18 | He strolled over to the little Park Police Station among the trees . |
| 19 | Vitor strolled over to the open door to look out at the house with its quaint latticed windows , its white-painted shutters , the walls awash with waterfalls of crimson bougainvillaea . |
| 20 | Such conflicts spilled over into the immediate postwar phase . |
| 21 | These matters spilled over into the British Psychological Society and eventually in 1951–52 led to a major row on the benefits of psychoanalysis , which meant that the relationship between scientific developments and educational practice became further confused . |
| 22 | At least fourteen more Palestinians were killed in subsequent clashes with the security forces and eight hundred were wounded ; the clashes spilled over from the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to Arab areas of Israel . |
| 23 | The reporter thanked him , and the camera tracked him as he trudged over to the other members of the team and they headed together towards a dark crack in the hillside . |
| 24 | Her ancestors came over on the legendary vessel . |
| 25 | When I told Constanza , she who has a memory for these things said , ‘ Good Lord , not M. J. Devaux who came over with the French team after the war ? ’ |
| 26 | Milwall have the lead that 's the important thing here it came over at the far side of the penalty area , had got up for it Ray and the Kennedy there was also a Middlesbrough foot in there . |
| 27 | Ignoring startled looks , she raced over to the frightened young woman and took her shoulders in both her hands . |
| 28 | If only such projects could be taken off the government 's books and handed over to the private sector , to get on with them . |
| 29 | Yet , on a formation basis , all these groups , including the Germans , were to be " treated as Soviet Nationals " and handed over to the Soviet authorities . |
| 30 | In January Mauritania handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross 23 Senegalese fishermen detained since July 1989 . |