Example sentences of "she [verb] over the " in BNC.

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31 As she clambered over the steep Alpine meadows with Portia , she told her friend for the first time about Thomas and how he had helped her when she had nowhere to go .
32 She clambered over the mossy wall at the bottom of the garden and edged round a shed .
33 She clambered over the fence .
34 She clambered over the side of the last truck and crouched down out of sight .
35 Without a word , she clambered over the rail , rather awkwardly because of the camera dangling from her wrist .
36 But she was alone when she climbed over the raised cot sides of her bed and crashed to the floor , injuring her head .
37 Her son has taken her up in his hang-glider ( can you carry two on a hang-glider ? ) , and she recalls her life and loves as she sails over the old family farm and the nearby manganese factory where it all happened .
38 One of the most beautiful uses of pas de bourrée courus is when Ashton places his danseuse in her partner 's arms as she floats over the surface of the floor as if in a dream like ecstasy .
39 She sighed over the poverty and squalor of the streets they had to pass through on their way out of Dublin .
40 She hands over the bags and we walk along side by side .
41 But she hands over the money because this is not the right time to fight him .
42 And that night Ruth arrives home to tell Naomi of all the wonderful things that has happened to her and she hands over the result of her day 's labour .
43 That was her style in the Falklands and it remained her style in a number of the confrontations that she faced over the next years .
44 At journey 's end she folded over the top of the bag and thoughtfully replaced it behind the netting on the back of the seat in front .
45 I give in , ’ she yelled over the wind-scour .
46 But she was smiling as she hung over the cot , gazing with delight at the baby .
47 She stepped over the marble chunk , and walked up to him .
48 As she stepped over the threshold of Rose Cottage , the smell that met her was not that of her own living space .
49 Why not just ask him ? she wondered as she stepped over the outstretched leg of Polly Inferno , aka Amanda Stern from Lanarkshire , who was using the corridor space for some warmup exercises and somehow , at the same time , studying a book .
50 But professional training took over , as she stepped over the white skirt and blouse she had discarded on the floor , to get her jeans from the wardrobe , her eyes still refusing to open .
51 Mrs Lomax did n't exactly shrink back , but she seemed nervous as she glanced over the instruments .
52 She glanced over the assortment of floats and lead shot scattered on the ground beside him .
53 Her trip had been marvellous , she bubbled over the phone , but Rome had been terribly hot and she was glad to be back .
54 She leapt over the rock with one smooth movement and landed in a cat like crouch , weapon raised .
55 She leapt over the ditch opposite the Martins ' orchard wall and hurled herself into the undergrowth .
56 She stumbled over the words , muttered and blushed , her duplicity and stupidity so abundantly clear to her that she was surprised that the charming young woman did not immediately leap to her feet , denounce her as an impostor and throw her out onto the street again .
57 The little kind were very much like pygmy chimps , — she stumbled over the word pygmy , then quickly added , ‘ You know , Pan paniscus , ’ and she flashed the same toothy grin of triumph that pronouncing ‘ magician ’ had evoked .
58 She sprang away from Finn and it was no longer a pretence — she stumbled over the knotted fringe of the rug .
59 ‘ Goodni — ’ But she stumbled over the final syllable , for suddenly his dark head was leaning towards her and she felt his lips lightly brush against her cheek .
60 ‘ So , where does — Monsieur Rohan — ’ she stumbled over the name a little ‘ — fit in ? ’
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