Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The light footfalls of their human destroyer faded into the night , and the silence of the brooding trees closed in like a shroud over the scene of his latest carnage . |
| 2 | From Gearstones an undisputed path goes down to a footbridge over the stream , here known as Gayle Beck . |
| 3 | From the Labyrinth 's south-west entrance a paved ramp , now eroded beyond recognition , led down to a bridge over the Vlychia stream ; on the south side this was supported on a finely built stone viaduct , which carried the road on south-eastwards along the north front of the Pilgrim Hostel and then southwards between yet more Minoan houses . |
| 4 | after a swift , furtive glance at them , jumped the ditch on the other side of the lane and made off at a run over the fen . |
| 5 | The violence began on June 4 in the city of Osh , which had a majority Uzbek population , sparked off by a dispute over the use of farmland for housing ( the scarcity of housing in Central Asia had become a major political issue in recent years , and had already been a factor in ethnic violence between Uzbeks and Meskhetians in the nearby Fergana valley in June 1989 , and in rioting in Tadjikistan in February 1990 — see pp. 36744-45 ; 37256-57 ) . |
| 6 | Seemed all right at first , but came up like a balloon over the weekend . ’ |
| 7 | Tensions between right and left flared up in a dispute over the May 1968 by-election in the City of Londonderry constituency , and this helps to illuminate some of the characteristics of the Derry Labour left . |
| 8 | The man then rose , walked to the window , stared out for a while over the pinnacles of the City , turned and spoke . |
| 9 | I remember Otto mentioning that she entertained him there with Jean-Claude , and only later moved out into a room over the Café du Coin , to be nearer her ‘ young man ’ . |