Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [v-ing] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | She held her breath at the look of tenderness spreading slowly over Lucenzo 's face . |
| 2 | When we reached our hotel and unlocked a suitcase we had kept , we thought , rigidly fastened back in Devon , we were mortified to find mountains of confetti cascading all over the floor . |
| 3 | The knowledge sent a fierce surge of possessiveness through him , which almost translated itself into violent action when he saw Isabel emerge from the inn with Ralf hovering attentively over her . |
| 4 | These early movies are now lost , but her illustrated day book and many photographs remain — an important part of the record of women working all over Britain at the start of commercial photography . |
| 5 | In view of the NUM 's capitulation this outlook assumes that coal will stay the main power station fuel with demand increasing marginally over the 1983 level by the year 2000 , with production probably falling slightly as a result of closures of high-cost pits and delays in bringing in new low-cost capacity . |
| 6 | Bloody Hitler and his crew of cut-throats tramping all over Europe . |
| 7 | ‘ Such a long time ! ’ she gasped in his ear as they hugged each other tightly , the dogs retiring a respectful distance to sit and watch the homecoming with tails swishing excitedly over the gravel . |
| 8 | On the other hand , they do favour a horizontal row of dots moving horizontally over a vertical row of dots moving vertically . |
| 9 | There are quite a lot of other bits and bobs floating about , asteroids , meteors , little bits of chunks flying all over the place . |
| 10 | Cut to shot of stuntman falling backwards over rail to the floor . |
| 11 | we 've done very well for escaping it , the only trouble is we have n't got the rain and now , this , this coming summer I dread to think what 's gon na happen , look how dry those fields are , just look at it if we get a wind up , if we , a wind starts to blow it 'll move a lot of this , it will just lift it up into the air , we 'll get clouds of soil blowing all over the place . |
| 12 | We used to have a family of martins nesting directly over our front porch , just under my bedroom window . |