Example sentences of "the [noun] [v-ing] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Most of us went , to savour talking to the man who abhorred women , in the forbidden room with its hard chairs and unopened windows and the heart bleeding over the door . |
| 3 | Does he realise that , for example , in University college , Cardiff it is proposed to put an extra 1,000 students into the humanities building over the next three years ? |
| 4 | From this vantage point they were to keep up a steady rifle fire on the sepoys advancing over the open ground until they heard the first ringing of the Church bell . |
| 5 | After seven idle months in office , with the roof collapsing over Brazil , he announced an ambitious economic-recovery plan . |
| 6 | We could see the Kasr el-Nil bridge , the lights of the cars streaming over it and the dark width of the river . |
| 7 | The figure standing over him . |
| 8 | The owner 's son , a silent , backward man in his early twenties , was crouched by the lever that operated the wheel , struggling to stop the wind whipping over the pages of his comic . |
| 9 | The necessary conditions for the formation of sand dunes are a wide foreshore exposed at low tide so that the wind blowing over it can dry the sand and set it in motion ; something to trap the sand and cause it to start accumulating ; and plants to colonise the pile of sand and by binding it together to prevent its complete destruction by the wind or high tides . |
| 10 | During the evening his wife was very nervous and became extremely agitated when the British guns started up , the shells passing over the village with a loud roar . |
| 11 | The old stone felt cold beneath her fingertips , but it was the glance sweeping over her from out of those black eyes that really froze her senses . |
| 12 | Frigidity becomes the spectre hovering over this transition , should it not be properly accomplished , and the frigid woman was one who had failed to make this transference . |
| 13 | Rain sat in the turquoise chair with the purple footstool , Oliver was on the settee not far from the replacement Chinese screen , Cobalt fingered the bronze bird , Tim stood in the doorway and watched the downpour slanting over the deck . |
| 14 | And yeah another one connected to this whole lifestyle , aspirational argument the image the brochures give us of a couple si sitting on a terrace with , you know , you can almost hear the music in the background , the sun setting over the sea . |
| 15 | While I would not seek to question the decision of the judges of a number of the awards ( although you may note for the record , however , that there were a lot of eyebrows raised in the trade by the comments on and judging of Helpware magazine , which won both contract title of the year and runner-up to best consumer launch of the year in the 1992 Publishing Awards ) , I would like to question the appropriateness of the chairman of the judges presiding over a ceremony where his own company won the most number of awards . |
| 16 | Athelstan remembered the hen roosting over the beer barrel and kept his own counsel . |
| 17 | The Basque separatist organization ETA claimed responsibility on March 13 for sending five parcel bombs ( one addressed to the Interior Minister ) , one of which seriously wounded Fernando de Mateo Lage , the judge presiding over the Audienca Nacional ( the court charged with handling terrorism cases ) , when it exploded in his hands in Madrid on Feb. 27 . |
| 18 | When CNN reported on Nov. 8 that it had obtained tapes of his telephone calls , Noriega 's chief lawyer , Frank Rubino , successfully petitioned District Judge William Hoeveler ( the judge presiding over the case ) for an injunction prohibiting the network from broadcasting any material which violated the confidentiality of the attorney-client relationship . |
| 19 | It grew until it was a window and out through the window she could see down a long tunnel ; and beyond that the sun shining and the mountains rising over the fruit trees . |
| 20 | Can I can I , before we go to Mr Potter , erm may be my slightly naive mind here but I distinguish when you start talking about a strategic site approach to planning for and one of provision within North Yorkshire er as being different from an approach based on major exceptions in that in the sense that you would actually plan for the ability to cope with what my colleague calls the ointment coming over the horizon . |
| 21 | As she moved slowly however it became apparent that her tall , slender stance was one of self-defence , not defiance , and she had not taken more than two steps when he was across the room hovering over her . |
| 22 | The traditional type of plotter is known as a ‘ flat bed ’ plotter because the paper is fixed to a flat plate with the gantry travelling over the top but the disadvantage is that the plotter must be at least as big as the piece of paper . |
| 23 | Why should n't the producer come here , rather than the band travelling over there ? |
| 24 | Next morning , painful rays of sunlight somehow filtered through the haze hanging over the city . |
| 25 | And they suddenly began to laugh , the joke toppling over them like a wave , until they wept tears of laughter , stared at by the loud , powdered woman , and by the waitresses newly attired . |
| 26 | ‘ Then it must have been the stream running over the rocks , ’ said Betty . |
| 27 | Actually her global role as described in the handout makes her sound like a sort of spy satellite , beeping her way round the globe peering over the shoulders of Random House New York , Random House Australia , and for all I know Random House Namibia . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The force of the water coming over the day and pounding through the debris is what creates the rapid . |
| 30 | They also ask to send the ball singing over the Stockade at Flinders — ; |