Example sentences of "and over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the swarm of people flowed down the path , stumbling on stones where a burn ran in winter or after thunderstorms , between the silvery wands of rowans with their clusters of blood-drops and the quivering tapestry of the alders , down into the Tay which ran from the west like molten iron , too flashing bright to look at , and over the Tay , wet to the waist ; the girls and boys who had not gone home were prancing and shrieking when they fell full length . |
| 2 | ‘ Not two miles from Atholl Castle — across the ford and over the hill . |
| 3 | The GWR 150 specials , the Blackmore Vales , Cambrian Coasts , Cumbrian Mountains and regulars for some seasons into Scarborough and over the West Highland . |
| 4 | The question of motive hangs over these first pages , and over the whole novel . |
| 5 | In the null output direction the signal changes are almost solely due to angular movement of the earth 's field and over the small range involved are linearly proportional to angle . |
| 6 | It is because trying to give credit to this great poet commits a patriotic Englishman ( or Scotsman for that matter — Fraser is a Scot ) to very tormenting and unwelcome questions and reflections about the spiritual state of England or Scotland today , and over the last fifty years . |
| 7 | Kuypers was the first to use this technique in studies of the brain and over the next 10 years , now in the United States , he charted at a new level of detail the connections made by the cerebral cortex with nervous elements in the brain-stem and spinal cord that control movement in a number of higher mammals . |
| 8 | And over the whole six-year period 1979-85 the average growth of M3 was 13 per cent , which happens to be exactly the same as it was between 1965 and 1973 , the period analysed by William Rees-Mogg in his famous article in The Times ( 13 June 1976 ) , ‘ How a 9.4 per cent excess money supply gave Britain 9.4 per cent inflation ’ , which denounced the conduct of economic policy in the early Seventies . |
| 9 | They had to take many economic decisions in the course of each annual cycle , and according to their status and wealth they made different decisions from one another in various places and over the year . |
| 10 | I 'd wear my shopping trophies on Saturday night , and over the next week … |
| 11 | Create six essential items for summer at a snip with Betty Jackson 's Vogue Patterns , here and over the page . |
| 12 | Influenced by the lower pound , earnings jumped by 22 per cent during the period and over the nine months . |
| 13 | Besides , eradication efforts in Pakistan have merely pushed the opium higher up in the hills and over the border into Afghanistan . |
| 14 | Oncoming bikers seemed intent on taking the short cut up and over the Aussie 's Nissan . |
| 15 | Now they are scrapping over the same pound — and over the betting levy , which the Horserace Betting Levy Board redistributes from punters to those who run the racing business . |
| 16 | The raid netted him £500 million and over the next few weeks he made his strategy clear . |
| 17 | The train passed a fire station , a brewery , and over the wide murky river . |
| 18 | He cut across the grass , stepping between and over the outstretched bodies . |
| 19 | We walked down to the car-park , through the rhododendrons , round the lake and over the willow-pattern bridge . |
| 20 | Through the ‘ new ’ town of Victorian terraces that came with the railway and over the river into the old town . |
| 21 | Not all of the recipients of honours were backbenchers , and over the following years journalists , industrialists and bankers sympathetic to the cause were handed decorations of one kind or another . |
| 22 | It is like the crew of a sailing-boat ; you build a team and over the years you make your performances together . |
| 23 | One trader happened to have a case of brylcream in stock and over the course of several months he saw the retail price of his 144 jars increase : it doubled , trebled , eventually quintupled . |
| 24 | Lilacs had been twined about the balcony which ran round two sides of the courtyard and over the deep , ancient arches of the north and west walls . |
| 25 | And over the remains the descendants of the crows , the jackdaws and the rooks that had attended Marie 's demise , and later her burial , swooped silently . |
| 26 | Now the path ran through heather high above the burn , past circular sheepfolds long disused and over the stony beds of side streams where the grass hung smooth and inviting , concealing ankle-breaking drops . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , the donor must have been infected with the Aids virus just before his death , and over the next few years seven of his beneficiaries have become HIV positive . |
| 28 | Armed with the classic mandarin 's pedigree , he joined the Treasury in 1961 and over the next 27 years he bounced between his first department and Downing Street , with the pattern being broken only by a spell with the Bank of England and City institutions in 1969 . |
| 29 | Instead he went flat out for the green and hit a magificent draw , or even a hook , on to and over the green . |
| 30 | She embarked on the column in 1981 and over the next 11 years became , if hardly the guardian of people 's secrets , nonetheless a gushing fount of comforting advice . |