Example sentences of "[verb] down over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It often gets me when I am in a high building or can look down over the city , or sometimes at a station when there is another journey to begin . |
| 32 | Walk from the Malá Strana end of the bridge past the first six pairs of statues listed below , then look down over the edge to your right over Kampa Island . |
| 33 | A long , narrow band of cloud has been moving down over the country and will continue to do so throughout the night before it moves away eastwards tomorrow , being replaced by clear skies to the west . |
| 34 | People become vulnerable : they feel very thin-skinned ; over-sensitive and self-pitying ; moody and unpredictable , with a cheerfulness that is transparent and brittle ; they may become tearful , perhaps breaking down over an item of television news or for no apparent reason at all . |
| 35 | The geostationary communications satellites placed high above the Pacific to link the banking and trading centres of South-East Asia , Japan and Australasia with those of North America preside over a ‘ window ’ of the planetary territory of geometrically fixed size — rather as if a cone , a dunce 's cap , the height of which is equivalent to the altitude necessary for a satellite 's geostationary orbit , had been set down over the ocean . |
| 36 | The blackouts were already pulled down over the hall windows . |
| 37 | ‘ His hair had been clipped as closely as possible to the scalp , with the exception of a small patch on the crown of the head , which was pulled down over the forehead to form a fringe . ’ |
| 38 | Ha had things been allowed to run down over the war ? |
| 39 | Second , the Algerian negotiations between ETA and the Spanish government broke down over the government 's unwillingness to accept in principle the Basques ' right of self-determination . |
| 40 | A little bit more , just a little bit , and surely she would be able to hang down over the edge and drop gently into the water below . |
| 41 | The inquiry has been scaled down over the year as leads have fizzled out . |
| 42 | But what about this : in 1853 , at Trouville , he watched the sun go down over the sea , and declared that it resembled a large disc of redcurrant jam . |
| 43 | Well , I mean , we had the opportunity , you know chit-chat job and mum said are we gon na go down over the weekend ? |
| 44 | As the coal went down over the winter months , these boards would be taken away to lower the height . |
| 45 | From the train we looked down over the clutter of the rooftops , things broken , things abandoned , things stored and forgotten : broken water-jugs , wheel-less bicycles , rolls of rush matting . |
| 46 | The privy was crude , a small recess in the wall with a latrine seat , just under a tiny , open , oval-shaped window which looked down over the green . |
| 47 | Right , I 've just got a , two or three minutes , I 've just wan na get something quickly done before we , we close and I 'm not gon na look up all the references , because your get them for next week any way in , in the house group , but , now , now in a sense it 's difficult to understand to take all this in after all his God and were people , how do we understand Jesus , it 's , it 's difficult , however knowing something about them does help us to understand something important , it helps us to understand what happened when Jesus ascended , when he went back to heaven , you see when Jesus arose from the earth the , the disciples who watch him it says there in Acts chapter one , they saw him go up in to the heaven , up into you know in a cloud , have you ever thought what that really means what on earth was it , they saw him go up in a cloud , can you image a sort of great clouds coming and dropping down over the mountain top there and was suddenly whisking Jesus up and then watching Jesus going up in this cloud into the sky , I do n't really think it was quite like that , have you ever wonder why it was that Jesus went up in a cloud , you see what was he doing , he was n't beginning a journey to some far off place in the universe , some distant corner where God the father was , he was n't doing that at all , what do you think a cloud can you , give any suggestions of what a cloud might represent because very often a lot of some of the language in the bible is picture language and it , it , it speaks as something else , what do , what do you think a cloud , does any body have suggestions of what a cloud might speak to us about , or speak to us of , sorry , power yeah , any thing else |
| 48 | Next time it might come down over the centre of a large city . ’ |
| 49 | Well mum said were we gon na come down over the weekend ? |
| 50 | It was difficult to see exactly what she looked like , for she and Rupert were bending down over a table examining something together . |
| 51 | The remains of an open-caste mine , shut down over a decade earlier , lay to the west . |
| 52 | Major Wiseman has stated that the plane was presumed shot down over the Channel . |
| 53 | Proceedings had been due to resume on Monday next week , but the commission was on standby to travel down over the weekend if necessary if there was an improvement in his client 's health . |
| 54 | It was fastened tightly on to the right horn , so it dangled down over the cheek and eye . |