Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] above " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are starting now , love David ’ , said the first sheet , which was promptly glued to the T of the great , gold SALT 'S sign hijacked from the mill offices and hoisted above the 15 by 9 ½ft frame divided into 144 sections for the fax picture . |
| 2 | This is part of the old corpse road that leads from Keld over the flanks of Kisdon Hill and turns above Thwaite to follow a line above the river , passing by Muker and on to Grinton . |
| 3 | D' ya remember that res , you know when we went to Brussels and stayed above the sort of Indian restaurant ? |
| 4 | An American patchwork surrounded by pictures and arranged above a curved headboard is a simple way of creating a stunning bedhead . |
| 5 | He advocated a unified central approach to budgeting and recommended above all that the State Control , the regime 's auditing body , be given access to the accounts of all government agencies . |
| 6 | Then he would make a pair of horns with his hands and step slowly backwards , and the closer he got to the bedside lamp the bigger the shadow grew , so that finally it outgrew the wall and spread across the ceiling and towered above him , a vast and terrible Demon . |
| 7 | Fears that the staging might be a little too picturesque are quickly dispelled as realistic dummies drop from the ceiling on ropes and dangle above the actors ' heads . |
| 8 | Stephen could remember how hot it had been , the sky a dazzling white-blue , the heat making the air wave and shiver above the dry yellowed turf . |
| 9 | Full of admiration and impressed above all by the signs of Nietzsche 's originality of mind and literary power , he saw in him a new kind of worker for the cultural cause with which he identified his own ambitions : " Now you must show what philology is for , and help me bring about the grand " renaissance " … |
| 10 | ‘ Gone ’ puts the brakes on temporarily , shifts into a slower gear and allows the hidden menace that lurks in most of their work to uncoil like some venomous snake and rises above the ruins . |
| 11 | This was manifest principally as flushing of the skin and sweating above the level of the lesion . |
| 12 | Even leaving aside Ross 's anger at not being consulted about such an important decision , it would be irresponsible to put her own needs and desires above those of the children . |
| 13 | This supports a thick earthen plate which forms the ceiling of the cellar and carries above it the central core of the nest with its tiers of nurseries , fungus gardens , food stores and , of course , the royal chambers where the king and queen live . |
| 14 | Kathleen had always rushed for the post , even in the days when their father had laughed at her eagerness and stood above her as she scooped up the white and brown envelopes . |
| 15 | Half nude , she held onto a big , round glass ball which was slowly lowered from the flies and poised above the stalls . |
| 16 | He joined her in the bathroom , drawing back the shower curtain and shouting above the sound of rushing water : ‘ I 've got something to tell you . ’ |
| 17 | When he writes of prayer , he compares it with ‘ a lark rising from his bed of grass and soaring upwards , singing as he rises , and hopes to get to heaven and climb above the clouds ’ , and so the lark continues through clause after clause , buffeted by storms from which it takes refuge , until finally ‘ it did rise and sing , as if it had learned music and motion from an angel as he passed sometimes through the air about his ministries here below ’ . |
| 18 | Lord John 's leading rescuer , the Life Guards Captain , drew his own sword and stood above his lordship . |
| 19 | He roared up beside her and ground to a halt , the silence after the noise of the engine actually quite frightening , and he was out of the Land Rover and towering above her before she could even open her mouth . |
| 20 | Finished head and rounding above the nostrils ( above ) . |
| 21 | Even so , flesh and cartilage is heavier than water and to remain above the sea floor , the sharks have to keep swimming . |
| 22 | And , in a sentence that should be inscribed in pokerwork and hung above Hussey 's bed : ‘ The constant stress on the visual which infects television production largely undermines any pretension the medium has to be a vehicle for discussion of serious ideas . ’ |
| 23 | Britain 's best known climber and sailor have combined their skills to produce a superb book of sailing and climbing above the Arctic Circle . |
| 24 | To reach an aerobic state the heartbeat must be taken above 120 beats per minute and maintained above this level for twenty minutes . |
| 25 | In most of them now music throbbed , thick white candles flickered and couples danced or sat in little intent circles and chatted above the din . |
| 26 | The steam engine to turn the winding drum , located in a wooden engine-house behind the conduit and constructed above a boiler-house rebated into the earthwork supporting the upper part of the planes , was a twin-cylinder high pressure jet condensing type . |
| 27 | My lover rises and plunges above me , not knowing |
| 28 | He lowered me into a chair at the foot of the stairs and stood above me critically . |
| 29 | Isabel Lavender opened her bedroom door and shouted above the noise of the vacuum cleaner . |
| 30 | It was the price for my more materialist attitude , my seeking to occupy the middle ground , between absorption in life and soaring above the cares of the earth . |