Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [v-ing] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall confidence is down because of the gloom hanging over the banking sector . |
| 2 | Headache from the back of the head going over the forehead worse ( < ) night , noise , cold air , better ( > ) heat and pressure . |
| 3 | A second later she had fallen to the ground , her hair covering her eyes so that she had only a vague impression of the man bending over her . |
| 4 | More top brass ? ’ he inquired of the policeman standing over us as he wrote down our names and addresses . |
| 5 | Later in the day , following a meeting in Dartford , Kent , with Tory MPs and members of the public protesting over the route of the planned Channel tunnel high-speed rail link , Mr Parkinson reiterated his faith in a private sector solution to the funding crisis . |
| 6 | The peaks surrounding glacier-dominated Saas Fee may be less distinguished , but the ice-falls of the Feegletscher hanging over the village are in their way just as striking . |
| 7 | And if you 've ever been there and taken the trip on the little boat which takes you right in to the base of the falls themselves , you 'll have seen that there 's a hydro electric station which takes power from the water at night , when some of the force is diverted , and instead of the water going over the falls it goes through the hydro electric station . |
| 8 | The force of the water coming over the day and pounding through the debris is what creates the rapid . |
| 9 | High above me was the narrow gash of Attermire Cave and the craggy outcrop of the scar hanging over the valley like a wave of stone about to break . |
| 10 | filled with the utmost horror at the thought of the spider creeping over her . |