Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] [adv] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was clearly not content to sink into idle retirement but was soon full of schemes to open up Hannafore , then reachable only by a path that climbed steeply over a down that fell sharply to the Looe river in a precipitous cliff . |
| 2 | Lawton covered as Delaney raised himself , wriggling forward into the nearest pocket of shadow , as Forster and Silk came up like weird , black sea creatures that slithered silently over the rail and into the nearest cover of darkness . |
| 3 | He was thirty-eight years old with a youthfully handsome face , tousled auburn hair that hung untidily over the collar of his open-necked white shirt and a sturdy , muscular physique which he kept in shape with a daily five-kilometre run followed by a punishing workout in his own private gymnasium . |
| 4 | I was a little confused at one point — after one of Leeds smooth silky passing movements in the first half , which ended in a shot that went just over the bar I think , most of the ground broke into applause . |
| 5 | and , and it went , cos it was quite a bit more worth petrol that went all over the place . |
| 6 | She was dressed in a cream shirt and navy-blue slacks that fitted snugly over the hips ; the only jewellery she wore was a platinum wedding ring . |
| 7 | In a syndicated article that ran all over the country , The Washington Post summarised Strickland 's disclosures : ‘ Prof. Rick Heber 's group at the University of Wisconsin may have settled once and for all the question of whether the disproportionate mental retardation of slum children is the result of heredity or environment . ’ |