Example sentences of "from over " in BNC.
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| 31 | He rolls up his sleeves and sets in on the dishes that I have eaten from over the course of the day . |
| 32 | " I 'll tell you , " said Dandelion , from over his shoulder . |
| 33 | Illicit stills flourished , smugglers and " rum-runners " brought in alcohol from over the borders , and " bootleggers " distributed the liquor . |
| 34 | I 'll explain it to you , if you 've got to stand in a circle because you ca n't see from over there you wo n't actually ever do this yourself , but you may well see it being done , in fact you probably will . |
| 35 | I write to her with my window open to catch a breeze which is coming from over the plains where the short rains are expected . |
| 36 | With this sensitivity it could easily detect a shrimp from over a metre away for these crustaceans generate tiny electrical fields of up to one thousandth of a volt ( 0.2–1 millivolt ) per centimetre each time they flick their tails . |
| 37 | The light from over there , ’ she said , nodding in the direction of the window , ‘ that 's in gravity , but it 's not being pulled down or anything . ’ |
| 38 | Yeah we get the people going from over to the . |
| 39 | But he stayed where he was and he continued to regard the Robemaker from over the restricting mask and , presently , the Robemaker said , ‘ Does it not irk you and chafe you to be so confined , Wolfprince ? ’ |
| 40 | We got those letters from over an old shop . |
| 41 | Quite apart from over 200 manuscripts , many heraldic or about Devonshire and some medieval , he owned nearly 500 printed books , including about 130 each of ‘ theological ’ and ‘ historical ’ works , over seventy works of ‘ Poesy ’ and over forty of ‘ Morality ’ . |
| 42 | You know what I mean : people expect you to talk about dark strangers from over the water and golden fortunes coming their way . |
| 43 | I 've been watching you from over the wall . |
| 44 | Immediately Nathan pulled her cardigan from over her arm and draped it around her shoulders . |
| 45 | From over George 's shoulder stared the portrait of a general whose handling of an attack in the South African war had caused so many casualties to his own brigade that he had immediately been promoted away to see if he could do the same thing with divisions and corps . |
| 46 | Her father grinned at her from over the rim of his spectacles . |
| 47 | ‘ What greenhorns you are , ’ said Glenda Grower , shaking her great mass of long , auburn hair from over her eyes . |
| 48 | ‘ But then , our Mr McWhirter 's a law unto himself , is he not ? ’ said Glenda , tossing a splendid lock back from over her eye . |
| 49 | ‘ Nothing remains a kick long , does it ? ’ said Hilary , scooping back a lock of fair hair from over his eye . |
| 50 | The Medes from over the way were joining in , perhaps , or the dreadful Throckmorton brothers from Number Thirteen . |
| 51 | USAN I ZUN BI Living for love ; a tropical hurricane arriving from over the sea , generally at dawn |
| 52 | The earl had successfully held minor raids near Carlisle , apparently launched to sound out the defences of the western march , and at Berwick the garrison , with the help of George Dunbar , that angry refugee from over the border , poacher turned forester , had decisively defeated a party of four hundred Scots . |
| 53 | That 's when Mrs Marsh from over the road comes and sits with her while I get to the shops . |
| 54 | Er , it 's very difficult , yes you all laughed when I asked a question last year from over there to get a capital P in Pearson because you all laughed it took twenty weeks to get it in The Times , do you remember ? |
| 55 | The city revolution is far from over . |
| 56 | In the light that shone feebly from over the street he saw her hands grip and rub one another . |
| 57 | ‘ Because that 's exactly what Charlie would n't want them to do : start anything without a clear directive from over here . |
| 58 | The fringe flapped in the little wind , and eddies from over the field brought the resinous warmth of the dying fires and another powdering of silvery ash mixed with charcoal . |
| 59 | The other priests also stood and removed the cowls from over their heads . |
| 60 | Timothy West saw some of those dark Williams depressions descend from over the horizon . |