Example sentences of "[v-ing] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ground was soft and squelchy when she got out of the car , and she felt mud oozing over the top of her shoes . |
| 2 | The Town Hall clock struck three , and still it was warm , April sunlight lying across the pool , lacing over the backs of fish . |
| 3 | It is a psychologically unrewarding task for the person soliciting over the telephone , and this is reflected in the vernacular term applied to the location from which such solicitation takes place — ‘ the boiler room ’ . |
| 4 | It seemed downright immoral to torment the poor woman with questions now just for the sake of proving the Jaguar 's brakes were faulty or Fanshawe driving over the seventy limit . |
| 5 | We drove out of the city on the now four-laned highway , passing the airport and driving over the bridge where I silently saluted the ancient tower standing in the tide-water below , the place where the Sheikha had fallen from her camel . |
| 6 | ‘ That you ’ Means the person driving over the prescribed limit , i.e. the identity of the driver . |
| 7 | Circumstantial evidence could take the form of showing the defendant wished to cover up an offence committed by himself , such as driving over the prescribed limit , being involved in an accident and then , as mentioned ( C ) 2 ante alleging that someone else was driving at the time of the accident . |
| 8 | The ton and a half of car rocked , driving over the ice-hardened ruts carved out by farm tractors in kinder weather . |
| 9 | Driving over the wide crossroads , for the second time , without another car to be seen , she had a vision of herself driving around all night . |
| 10 | Donald , who describes himself as a Friend of the Earth , does not himself hold a driving licence , but has taken it upon himself to publish a list of prominent men and women who have had the misfortune to be caught driving over the limit a judge , a chief superintendent , various footballers , actors , television personalities — in what he chooses to call his Hall of Shame : It is the number of celebrities we have discovered that is so shocking . |
| 11 | do n't say that a level crossing or where the road narrows , on approached any type of pedestrian crossing or where it would involve driving over an area marked with diagonal stripes to or che chevrons , do not overtake when you do so would force another vehicle to swerve or slow down , if in doubt do not overtake so where 'd you not overtake ? |
| 12 | Before Grant 's shocked eyes , the nightmare figure fell weakly forward against the far end of the big console , its remaining hand groping over the surface towards a red button . |
| 13 | It is quite acceptable to ask to sample before you buy , although this is only possible if you are purchasing over the counter . |
| 14 | Our dad loves walking over the fields when he comes home tired from working in the city . |
| 15 | I was sailing the Pacific , or a character in a surrealist painting ; often I was walking over the red shale past one football pitch after another , with goal-posts stretching as far as the eye could see , like white crosses over the fields of Arnhem . |
| 16 | The three men were walking over the top paddock . |
| 17 | In less sophisticated times , people searching for minerals picked up clues simply by walking over the ground and examining it visually . |
| 18 | Then a reminder of the tragedy came during World War I when a Polish soldier was walking over the bridge one starlit night when he saw the wraith of a man dancing on the parapet . |
| 19 | They were walking over the deep sun-baked mud-tracks of the lane and you had to watch where you put your feet if you did n't want to twist your ankle . |
| 20 | A man had been walking over the ground outside . |
| 21 | Days of uncertain weather , riding out , walking over the sands , in the beechwoods . |
| 22 | Through the whole of the long night that followed , Boldwood 's dark figure could be seen walking over the hills of Weatherbury like a ghost . |
| 23 | Hundreds of miners from the western valleys were walking over the hill to the stricken village . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , she was walking over the stones and I wondered if she was cut , but she was n't . |
| 25 | Two more of the creatures hovered around the craft , walking over the wings and flashing their teeth at the hysterical passengers . |
| 26 | He had gone up to Magdalen College , asked at the Porters ' Lodge , discovered the grounds were closed ; then just carried on walking over the bridge , around the Plain , and back again down the High . |
| 27 | On the other hand , it 's also like walking over the end of a plug-hole . |
| 28 | I was looking for drugs and walking over the aerosol cans . |
| 29 | but the strong impression I had is walking over the hill from Kettleborough where the gun club now is walking down into this valley and seeing that view of this little end of the village nestling in the hollow and I can remember feeling a extraordinarily strong sensation that I could easily live there |
| 30 | She just goes er walking over the moors |