Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv prt] over the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I have to listen to one more candidate telling me he sees the job as a challenge I 'll throw up over the boardroom table . |
| 2 | Next time it might come down over the centre of a large city . ’ |
| 3 | Then he could think back over the rising and understand and admit its weaknesses and set himself to imagine a better future … |
| 4 | Yet Iago suddenly wheeled his pony again , and made for the highest point of the ridge , where he could look back over the valley , and see as far as the scattered outer copses and the rim of the forest . |
| 5 | They drew the eye to One Tree Hill , now forested over , and from this clump , at Chested , he could look back over the top of Chiddingstone Castle to another clump at Mark Beech beyond . |
| 6 | She could look down over the rail into a walled sunken courtyard belonging to the basement flat , a brick-lined niche with some white cast-iron garden furniture and some shrubs in open barrels . |
| 7 | Interpreting these counts needs care , particularly those for the winter , when very marked fluctuations have been recorded , for , unlike most other waders , the wintering Black-tailed Godwits may move about over the whole of the estuarine complex from Pagham Harbour to Portsmouth Harbour in Hampshire . |
| 8 | She would look out over the scenery and think serene thoughts , and before too long Rourke Deveraugh would be nothing more than a hazy memory , a burr on the skin that was shaken off and trampled underfoot . |
| 9 | The review continues that work but we shall go back over the ground to make sure that the newer regulations we have introduced include as little red tape as possible , ’ said . |
| 10 | Eventually , after about a week , her little head would pop up over the hill and watch me put out her food as I whistled , but she would n't come down for it until she felt the coast was clear . |
| 11 | Even though you have checked things over thoroughly , there is always the distinct possibility that something electrical will pack up over the Christmas period . |
| 12 | Individual cells may crawl about over the surface of the sponge like amoebae . |
| 13 | Even so , considerable errors can build up over the period of ten or more years that elapses between one Census date and the time when the finalized results of the next Census can be used . |
| 14 | It often gets me when I am in a high building or can look down over the city , or sometimes at a station when there is another journey to begin . |