Example sentences of "[verb] over her " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosa had been crying then , with the pieces of the plate her mother had tried to smash over her head in front of her at the table , and her mother had put the back of her hand to her daughter 's cheek , as if to test her for fever . |
| 2 | Now , with her bag slung over her shoulder and her sunglasses propped firmly on her nose , it struck her as simply crowded . |
| 3 | Heat flushed through her body , prickling over her skin and parching her throat , and she lifted a languid hand to push back her flowing hair . |
| 4 | Critics have drooled and dribbled over her out-of-this-world beauty and wide , spacey blue eyes , but now Kim Basinger is confounding them all by playing the title creature-from-another-planet in My Stepmother Is An Alien . |
| 5 | She sprang up , knocking over her coffee-cup in the process , and clutched Robyn by the shoulders . |
| 6 | A torrent of foul , icy water drenched Miss Hardbroom from head to toe , followed a second later by the bucket which crashed over her head with a doom-laden clang . |
| 7 | Twisting her face away from that steady regard , she stared unseeingly into the hot blue distance , glad of her hat to pull over her eyes . |
| 8 | ‘ That policewoman I was telling you about , ’ she exclaimed over her shoulder . |
| 9 | water sloshes over her old trainers |
| 10 | She peered over her spectacles . |
| 11 | Niall 's coat brushed against her arm as he peered over her shoulder . |
| 12 | When Rachel did n't immediately reply Nina peered over her glasses at Greg and said , ‘ I think you may find Rachel is the one person who may disagree with you . ’ |
| 13 | A full skirt of crimson and black swelled over her hips and was lifted and pinned at one side to reveal a cascade of lacy petticoats . |
| 14 | She was sitting in the armchair with the baby curled over her left shoulder , his head buried in her neck , and both his hands clasped around her head . |
| 15 | One Guild member felt that three children had reduced her to a household drudge and in desperation resorted to propping up Lowell and Longfellow over her washtub and learning passages off by heart on washday . |
| 16 | Somehow she rose over her excitement , though , and concentrated all she could on the task at hand . |
| 17 | It was as if she was checking over her life , wondering where she had got to . |
| 18 | ‘ Why not ? ’ he queried as his mouth moved to the cord in her neck , destroying what little command over her senses she had left . |
| 19 | ‘ I ca n't wait to get into those waves , ’ she shouted over her shoulder as they made their way carefully down . |
| 20 | ‘ Now ! ’ she shouted over her shoulder . |
| 21 | I have far larger tasks than to worry over her petty life , ’ Kopyion said . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's what your tiredness is , ’ she pronounced over her shoulder . |
| 23 | " And Miss Adeane lives over her shop , does she ? " |
| 24 | He bent over her whispering , ‘ Better now , my love ? |
| 25 | Helen bent over her mother-in-law . |
| 26 | She was sitting on her futon , bent over her feet , and had turned down her stereo because Brian had just marched in and requested her to do so . |
| 27 | She sighed when she set it back in its saucer — and sighed again with pleasure as she bent over her poached egg . |
| 28 | Matey watched her , dark head bent over her work , hands busy , having mastered the basics of the task with what Matey thought was surprising speed . |
| 29 | She had smiled uncertainly at Isabel and had started to say something , but then Simon had put his arm around her waist and had led her away , his head bent over her fair one , his expression tender . |
| 30 | Debbie 's pert little features settled into a mutinous line as she bent over her typewriter , and Fran sighed as she turned on her heel and left the room . |