Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the long curling hair hanging lankly over the driver 's neck , Howard has noticed , is a tumour the size of a sparrow 's egg . |
| 2 | The story got about over the years that his lectures were very obscure . |
| 3 | Cross the pastry strips alternately over the filling to form a plait . |
| 4 | This is entirely due to excessive muscular tension building up over the years and pulling the bones of the spine closer together , by as much as two or even three inches . |
| 5 | The dark , lazy appraisal moved down over the jut of her breasts beneath the soft material , and she shivered involuntarily , despite the warm night . |
| 6 | Right : A buddha figure presides serenely over the pine panelled bathroom |
| 7 | The noise brought Jacqui to the door and light spilled out over the scene . |
| 8 | And the mile-high fuel club topping up over the North Sea . |
| 9 | We were in a car looking down over the Bay and I said I 've got to go out . |
| 10 | Below the attics was a back bedroom looking out over the flower garden , and so on to the main road beyond . |
| 11 | But , with a research department reduced by over a half and with the strategic use of a cash cow , the nylon business produced innovation after innovation . |
| 12 | She sat down and leaned back against the rock looking out over the sweep of moorland . |
| 13 | The overhead door swung up easily to his touch and the light splayed out over the gravel of the drive and the unkempt verges of silvered grass . |
| 14 | And there was plenty of crap strewn all over the pavement , so he had to be more careful . |
| 15 | Spruce allowed his mind to run back over the meeting with the Bishop , Archdeacon and Miss Braithwaite . |
| 16 | Like all children , his mind jumps all over the place . |
| 17 | There were no windows in the hut , but the open doorway looked out over the mountainside across the valley to the emerald paddy fields and , far away to the east , the village . |
| 18 | As his mind wanders guiltily over the past and longingly towards a future which even he now realises can never be , the Passacaglia motif anchors him more and more inescapably in the present , with the posse of Borough vigilantes coming nearer and nearer . |
| 19 | She sipped her ale , then frowned as her mind skittered back over the conversation . |
| 20 | bit this traffic because there 's snow falling all over the county there are going to be people erm in all sorts of er er problems . |
| 21 | He may have gone into something else later — ’ his mind ran rapidly over the likelihoods-'publishing , a university — I just do n't know . |
| 22 | As she hurried down a long corridor , her mind groped backwards over the events of the previous night . |
| 23 | The 40-tonne space complex showered down over the foothills of the Andes in western Argentina . |
| 24 | When the verdict came down over the radio earlier that afternoon , I thought it had to be some kind of misunderstanding — a joke . |
| 25 | ALL OUR YESTERDAYS : Fifty years on the American Flag flies again over the Churchill Hospital in Oxford … just for today . |
| 26 | The auk tribe ( guillemots , razorbills and puffins ) , which spend the winter scattered widely over the ocean , will also be heading inshore towards their breeding cliffs . |
| 27 | Jenny 's laugh came lightly over the line . |
| 28 | This time it was held in St Margaret 's Hope School , the newly built primary school in a commanding position on a hill above the village looking out over the sea . |
| 29 | Nader Nadirpur stood by the balcony window looking out over the avenue . |
| 30 | Of the verderers he could see nothing , but so strong was his sense of present danger that Allen remained half-hidden watching until the sun came up over the forest and the wet rock slabs of the Waste shone like glass and he could feel the first faint warmth of the sun 's beams striking on his face . |