Example sentences of "[noun sg] up over " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I never ! ’ said Aunt Bedelia stalking off with her skirt up over her head showing her fleecy-lined Directoire knickers . |
| 2 | He pushed her against a tree and began pulling her skirt up over her knees . |
| 3 | Pulling his sweater up over his nose and mouth to filter out the worst of the smoke , he left the Control and made to ascend the stairs . |
| 4 | He swept her body with a possessive flourish , pushing her sweater up over her head and following suit with the silk top and bra . |
| 5 | Fabia pulled the duvet up over her head and tried to get some sleep . |
| 6 | two more winners to finish off with … longjumper Carl Howard from Oxford took the national under 20 title again … his winning leap 7 point five two metres and … weightlifter Andrew Saxton who was sent home from the Olympics last year after a mix up over drugs was a winner again in the British Senior Championships at Crystal Palace … |
| 7 | Caroline tugged at the thin straps that held the red silk up over the generous curve of her breasts , then smoothed down the skirt as if her touch might somehow magically make it extend beyond her thighs . |
| 8 | She lay on the bed and pulled the coverlet up over herself and the golden Satan shone behind her closed eyes . |
| 9 | Normally she 'd have shampooed his hair twice , but his compliment had rattled her badly , or perhaps it was the deep and husky voice he 'd said it in , and she quickly rinsed the lather off , pulling the towel up over his head to blot excess water . |
| 10 | Or has it been a build up over a ye number of years |
| 11 | With a low murmur in his throat he raked unsteady fingers into her tousled blonde hair , ripped back the bedclothes and peeled the jade T-shirt up over her slender thighs , her stomach , her breasts , sliding it over her head to uncover the unexpected treasure in his arms . |
| 12 | He had taken his glasses off now and pulled his T-shirt up over his head , revealing that manly torso of perfect proportions , over which he deftly fastened the frilled silk shirt , and tucked it into his jeans . |
| 13 | 3 Tightly roll the pastry up over the almond filling . |
| 14 | Bella pulled a cellular blanket up over her head , closed her eyes and lay , as still as she could , under her heap of covers . |
| 15 | Pulled the blanket up over his ears so as to be sure he was mistaken . |
| 16 | Some girl 's going out with a boy , he zipped her tent up over them and she was so shocked she pulled her trousers down by accident . |
| 17 | By the time the witless victim had thought to go back to his cash desk , Melissa had juggled the twins sufficiently to pull her jumper up over her head and was offering a late lunch to Anastasia and Lucifer . |
| 18 | ‘ They say the god Kung-Kung who brought the Great Flood was an eel , ’ Tsu Ma said , scooping water up over his chest and arms as if he were washing . |
| 19 | If we follow standard practice in assuming that prices are fixed as a mark up over variable costs and that the rate of productivity growth is exogenous , a modified Phillips curve of the form emerges . |
| 20 | The feasible real wage will be determined by , for example , unit labour costs and the mark up over unit labour costs . |
| 21 | To take a concrete example , an established characteristic of the pricing decision across many Western economies over several decades has been the tendency for firms , particularly firms in the manufacturing sector , to set prices as a mark up over variable costs , the most prominent among which is the money wage . |
| 22 | Firms set prices as a mark up over average cost . |
| 23 | Oh and Terry he might put a bloody great big sign up over bus . |
| 24 | I like the cat where you press a button and it brings a mask up over his face . |
| 25 | He lifted the soiled nightdress up over her unresisting shoulders and head , and for a moment she was naked , bursting breasts , strangely risen navel , arms and legs fragile and ineffectual beside the central weight . |
| 26 | She flipped the hood up over her head , fussed with it , then pushed through into the unknown . |
| 27 | Just grab the knife up over head and down at the table . |
| 28 | The product 's heritage , Slatt says , gives it a leg up over competitors . |
| 29 | To deny herself equally , she acknowledged bitterly , still painfully aware of her body 's aching need for fulfilment as she pulled the straps of her dress up over her shoulders and then zipped it up swiftly . |
| 30 | And then they would er they would The tramp coles then you would er put this rope up over that side , and then you 'd put one over that side , you see , and that was that would be safe for a long time . |