Example sentences of "as it [verb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A PR executive faced with the task of showing the strength of steel-capped safety footwear hired a double decker bus and had it photographed as it drove over the feet of a man wearing the boots . |
| 2 | It was an Arctic blast screaming from the east , picking up extra degrees of cold as it drove over the frozen white surface . |
| 3 | It leapt in the air as it shot over the ramp , making Rachel gasp as she watched him slam the brakes on , flinging her forward to make the seatbelt dig into her . |
| 4 | A car was coming up the track at high speed , creaking and groaning as it went over the bumps . |
| 5 | Yes what er happened , th there was erm erm er the radioactive cloud that came up was swept by the winds around the world and in fact as it went over the United Kingdom er it happened to rain on er Cumbria and North Wales so some of this radioactivity was brought down , it settled on the grass and got into the soil . |
| 6 | As it banked over the Cambrian Mountains , the reservoir which featured in the first party political broadcast sparkled far below . |
| 7 | The train carrying the body of Cadogan West gave a lurch as it passed over the points and the curve in the rails just before Aldgate Station . |
| 8 | Glancing over the line as it arced over the lake , her eyes took on a faintly emerald glow . |
| 9 | In the context above , Mr Lorry did not perceive the actual change itself as it came over the doctor . |
| 10 | I always use a soft pencil as it glides over the page . |
| 11 | I had noticed him near the end of the queue as it swarmed over the ladder . |
| 12 | Again he heard the distant crash as it fell over the cliff . |
| 13 | And it 's a huge great big muscle but it can get a little bit er inflamed , as it passes over the front edge of the kneecap there . |
| 14 | It is greatly helped by a pragmatic government who , as it showed over the Rainbow Warrior affair , is quite prepared openly to back its security services even when they have been caught red-handed in a straightforward act of overt terrorism . |
| 15 | The petrol burst into flame as it flew over the wick in the tiny steel cup , roared through the air and fell brightly on and around the two rabbits . |
| 16 | The public needs to stand up as strongly over this issue as it did over the miners . |
| 17 | The rise in the share of transfers ( pensions , dole , etc. ) also probably took the form ( as it did over the period as a whole ; see chapter 9 ) of an extension of coverage of schemes rather than of a growth in real value in excess of productivity . |
| 18 | It was a perfect summer dawn and the red flames matched the red disc of the sun as it rose over the misty hedges . |
| 19 | Behind his head the lights of the lorry were flashing as it bumped over the hard ridges of ice . |
| 20 | For if literature be , as we believe … a fellowship which " binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society , as it spreads over the whole earth , and over all time " , then the nation of which a considerable portion rejects this means of grace , and despises this great spiritual influence , must assuredly be heading for disaster . |
| 21 | This morning the water was clear and silvery , chuckling a little as it lapped over the smooth , oval , brown stones . |