Example sentences of "and [vb pp] over the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Aunt Margaret tucked up Victoria and hung over the cot for a long minute as though she would have liked to sing her a lullaby . |
| 32 | A great deal has been said and written over the past two years about East European grandees being given back their property , but reality lags behind the talk . |
| 33 | It is one of those inexplicable events that a rabbit hole in the middle of a field can be gassed and its population exterminated , the hole filled in and cultivated over the top , yet , even after the passage of a number of years , a rabbit will go to that exact location and restore the old system . |
| 34 | The cloth is liberally soaked and wiped over the surface in a smooth sweeping motion . |
| 35 | On encoffining , the hood would be unfolded and drawn over the face , the top sheet turned up and tucked in around the neck , if not higher . |
| 36 | The projects will be supported and supervised over the summer months by staff of the Enterprise Centre . |
| 37 | A great deal of blood pumped and washed over the clean tiled floor . |
| 38 | It spilled from the safety deposit boxes and washed over the floors of the rooms . |
| 39 | Because of debts they are often forced to sell their land and therefore lose the means of livelihood that their family has known and understood over the generations . |
| 40 | We have shown that these word matches occur so frequently that competing hypotheses can not be pursued and compared over the length of the entire utterance . |
| 41 | Bragg pushed his way through and bent over the body . |
| 42 | Theresa rubbed her hands together to bring some life back into them and bent over the sheets of paper laid out on her work table , trying to forget the cold and concentrate on her designs . |
| 43 | She walked across and bent over the girl . |
| 44 | I went across and bent over the little animal . |
| 45 | He went past me and bent over the dead man . |
| 46 | He took the candle from the table and bent over the fireplace , setting the twigs ablaze . |
| 47 | She watched him through her fingers as he went down the garden and bent over the hole . |
| 48 | ‘ Oh , God , why do n't people learn from other people 's mistakes ? ’ the big man muttered , and bent over the child . |
| 49 | Made of thin rubber and worn over the erect penis , a condom prevents sperm from entering the woman . |
| 50 | The crane jib dipped and raised over the deep hold of the ‘ Marit ’ , each time raising out a neat sling of timber like some massive lucky dip . |
| 51 | I climbed up through one of the thirteen gates and clambered over the piles of collapsed masonry blocking the way to the top of the citadel . |
| 52 | The King 's horse , given all the conditions described above , could well have slipped and tumbled over the cliffs , taking his rider with him . |
| 53 | Deep tan , good body , jeans that were tight and bleached over the thighs but not looking like they were sprayed on . |
| 54 | And his foreman makes sure the containers are loaded onto the trucks and dumped over the border . |
| 55 | First discovered in 1695 , the pavement has been repeatedly buried and re-exposed over the last three centuries . |
| 56 | Each had a feather-plumed bonnet and the filabeg , the small plaid , heavy wool an arm 's length wide and four arm-spans long , pleated and belted at the waist , the free end swung up and pinned over the shoulder of his saffron-dyed shirt . |
| 57 | I would also like to know how members think a branch development strategy should be drafted , approved and introduced over the next few months . |
| 58 | Above that a heavy mantle is wrapped all round the body and brought over the head . |
| 59 | He fired his pistol in the air and charged over the top as if he were chasing some errant fox . |
| 60 | Various other formats have come and gone over the years , but these are the ones which have become established and likely to remain for the foreseeable future . |