Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , as the aircraft swooped down over many of the fields that were so familiar to me in my detecting rambles around the countryside , I soon realised that the weather had taken its toll on the cropmarks . |
| 2 | All at once she became achingly aware of the thinness of the cotton shirt that skimmed down over her thighs , the way the deep V where she had left it unbuttoned at the neck gave glimpses of the top curve of her breasts , and she immediately backed away . |
| 3 | Werner was in his late forties with a short , stocky physique , thinning brown hair and a neatly trimmed russet moustache that tapered down over the corners of his mouth . |
| 4 | The water swirled in over small pebbles , widening into a narrow , deep , fast-flowing stream ; shaded from sunlight by overhanging branches . |
| 5 | It was a large , grassy paddock , wired in over the top to stop the high-climbing cats from escaping . |
| 6 | The cart bounced on over the rutted road . |
| 7 | It caught on over here some years later with the Seven Men of Preston setting the trend . |
| 8 | The dark , lazy appraisal moved down over the jut of her breasts beneath the soft material , and she shivered involuntarily , despite the warm night . |
| 9 | Bakhramov 's opinion that an extra-time shot by Geoff Hurst had hit the underside of the crossbar and bounced down over the goal-line prompted Swiss referee Gottfried Dienst to allow the goal which gave England a 3–2 lead . |
| 10 | His brows , which were sandy , drew down over his plummy nose . |
| 11 | As she bent down over the fire , her nose-ring and the silver coins of her necklace glinted fiercely . |
| 12 | They bumped off over the cobbles . |
| 13 | An elegant BMW drew up over the road and Fatimah Bankhead , the chain-smoking Islamic feminist , stepped out . |
| 14 | I cut off the path proper and charged up over a dune and down its other side to where the service pipe carrying the water and electricity to the house appears out of the sand and crosses the creek . |
| 15 | It would not , frankly , be totally surprising if — somewhere between Strasbourg this weekend and an EMU vesting date in the middle nineties — the tide of history began to dissolve the fabric of a Community built up over decades . |
| 16 | Part of it was simple force of personality , buttressed by a Marine uniform ; part of it was expectation , a slow series of teasing appearances and an avalanche of peculiar facts , built up over many months . |
| 17 | Do schools take their small-scale budgetary approaches , built up over the years by dealing with capitation , or do they reappraise their resource management approach ? |
| 18 | The knowledge which the parents possess will be based on perhaps a superficial understanding built up over many years and based largely on misconceptions . |
| 19 | To succeed , they have to be able to draw on their full resources , built up over a lifetime . |
| 20 | Strombolian activity continued for most of this time in the little cone built up over the fissure , until it was a respectable thirty metres or so in height , while the lavas snaked down-slope in several glowing tongues , permanently ruining many of the best skiing slopes , engulfing one by one the pylons that carried the cable-way , and demolishing the upper cable-station . |
| 21 | But the lesson of the Kennedy case is that if you have the chance to take another job before your redundancy has been confirmed , you may have to choose between safeguarding your future and cashing in on the job rights built up over the years in your present employment . |
| 22 | Even their footsteps were silent on the thick carpet of pine needles built up over countless years . |
| 23 | The personal relationships built up over the 15 weeks often encourage longer discussions on how the subjects the pupils are learning about relate to the outside ‘ grown-up ’ world of industry and academe . |
| 24 | It remains to be seen whether the special provision built up over the last decade will survive what may be the collapse of pre-vocational college-based education . |
| 25 | Zurich has benefited in its search for profitable target markets from having a strong international network , built up over nearly a century , with operations in 40 countries . |
| 26 | Many believed that the Liberal Labour alliance was a threat to a system of government built up over centuries and they were not prepared to see this done without at least a clear decision by the electorate . |
| 27 | It has begun to erode the banks which it built up over millennia . |
| 28 | The concept of charity is elusive , moving , embodied in a corpus of decided cases built up over centuries . |
| 29 | The enrichment of the Library 's printed collections by selecting appropriately from the constant flow of new knowledge , as well as completing gaps in those publications already represented in the collections built up over the last three hundred years of the Library 's development , is of paramount importance for scholars and researchers . |
| 30 | Their livelihoods are important and it is entirely right that their expertise , built up over many years , should be made available to reprocess nuclear fuel when appropriate . |