Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the old-fashioned , strong hessian is wonderful for keeping you warm and dry and John always sported three sacks — one round his waist , another over his shoulders , and the third with the corner pushed in for a hood over his head . |
| 2 | The light footfalls of their human destroyer faded into the night , and the silence of the brooding trees closed in like a shroud over the scene of his latest carnage . |
| 3 | On winter days the thin spirals of blue smoke were particularly visible , although , in fact , you could see them on most days save when heavy rain , snow , or mist came down like a curtain over everything except the immediate slope of the hill and its scattered beeches . |
| 4 | Went down with a bang over there . ’ |
| 5 | The enormous necropolis is adjacent and contains hundreds of tombs cut down into the tufa over a distance of two miles . |
| 6 | And the archaeological remains give authenticity to the fascinating legends of Greek mythology with the most famous of them all , the Parthenon , looking down from the acropolis over the bustling city of Athens below . |
| 7 | In Australia 's dry soils there are millions of tonnes of salt blown in from the sea over many millions of years . |
| 8 | From Gearstones an undisputed path goes down to a footbridge over the stream , here known as Gayle Beck . |
| 9 | From the Labyrinth 's south-west entrance a paved ramp , now eroded beyond recognition , led down to a bridge over the Vlychia stream ; on the south side this was supported on a finely built stone viaduct , which carried the road on south-eastwards along the north front of the Pilgrim Hostel and then southwards between yet more Minoan houses . |
| 10 | Once you 're at the summit descend by the more popular Miners ' Path which will take you down across the causeway over Llyn Llydaw and finishes up at Pen-y-pass at the top of the Llanberis Pass . |
| 11 | The Aussie forward was stretchered off during the win over Hull at Wilderspoool , after an incident involving former Welsh RU international Mark Jones . |
| 12 | A weak sun was rising off to the east over the distant buildings and its pale light was filtering through the branches of the trees about him . |
| 13 | after a swift , furtive glance at them , jumped the ditch on the other side of the lane and made off at a run over the fen . |
| 14 | Unofficial reports said that the incident might have been sparked off by a dispute over permission to build a mosque . |
| 15 | The violence began on June 4 in the city of Osh , which had a majority Uzbek population , sparked off by a dispute over the use of farmland for housing ( the scarcity of housing in Central Asia had become a major political issue in recent years , and had already been a factor in ethnic violence between Uzbeks and Meskhetians in the nearby Fergana valley in June 1989 , and in rioting in Tadjikistan in February 1990 — see pp. 36744-45 ; 37256-57 ) . |
| 16 | The Guardian of April 25 commented that the Hungarian government hoped that " the new law will provide the much-needed impetus for Hungary 's privatization programme and unlock the door to foreign investors who have so far been put off by the uncertainty over who owns what " . |
| 17 | I decided that perhaps Peace Corps was n't meant to happen for me , but kept on with the appeal over Jamaica . |
| 18 | The back flap of his breacan-feile was drawn up as a hood over his head against the weather . |
| 19 | However the meeting broke up after a row over whether it should be video taped . |
| 20 | Seemed all right at first , but came up like a balloon over the weekend . ’ |
| 21 | I did all I could for that plant , but while my White Poplar in the garden went from strength to strength , sprouting new branches and hundreds of suckers that came up like a forest over all the lawn , the fern bought on that memorable day when the second deluge had fallen just faded away before my eyes . |
| 22 | ‘ Thoroughbreds will always be able to catch up in a race over a long distance . |
| 23 | Tensions between right and left flared up in a dispute over the May 1968 by-election in the City of Londonderry constituency , and this helps to illuminate some of the characteristics of the Derry Labour left . |
| 24 | They 're all th round there , round that dahlia they 're coming up in the corner over there , and there 's some here , and I think they 're all coming . |
| 25 | The theory of women 's arrested development was taken up in the debate over women 's inferior mental ability . |
| 26 | What kind of friend hooks you up on a beam over a terrifying machine ? … |
| 27 | The levels of these may be increased up to a thousandfold over basal . |
| 28 | ‘ And the king was much moved , and went up to the chamber over the gate , and wept : and as he went , thus he said , O my son Absalom , my son , my son Absalom ! would God I had died for thee , O Absalom , my son , my son ! ’ |
| 29 | He was looking up at the sign over the door . |
| 30 | I said I was rather tied up at the school over most week-ends ; though the half-term holiday was the week-end after next and I might just be in Athens then — but I could n't be sure . |