Example sentences of "bent over [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond the breakwater the waves were getting bigger as the Pirate effed and cee-ed , bent over the uncovered inboard engine . |
| 2 | In the main factory , heads were bent over the new German sewing-machines in which Rose had recently invested . |
| 3 | So I was racing through South London on my bike , nearly getting crushed several times by lorries , head bent over the dropped handlebars , swiftly running through the ten Campagnola gears , nipping through traffic , sometimes mounting the pavement , up one-way streets , breaking suddenly , accelerating by standing up on the pedals , exhilarated by thought and motion . |
| 4 | A man in the long robe of a clerk or scribe bent over the injured baron . |
| 5 | Her head bent over the exquisite gondola . |
| 6 | I went across and bent over the little animal . |
| 7 | Each of the Moi carried a long-bladed machete which had been dubbed a coupe-code in Annam , and taking one from the nearest tribesman , the Senator bent over the dead buffalo . |
| 8 | He went past me and bent over the dead man . |
| 9 | Jack nodded , his head bent over the worst of the wrists , suturing the ugly slash . |
| 10 | The girls were now too close to their exam , too anxious to do more than lift their faces to him , but out of the tiredness and filth of lime he could be seen looking often at their heads bent over the lamplit pages in what looked close to melancholy and sunken reflection . |