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 | Cross the pastry strips alternately over the filling to form a plait . |
| 3 | Right : A buddha figure presides serenely over the pine panelled bathroom |
| 4 | And there was plenty of crap strewn all over the pavement , so he had to be more careful . |
| 5 | Like all children , his mind jumps all over the place . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He may have gone into something else later — ’ his mind ran rapidly over the likelihoods-'publishing , a university — I just do n't know . |
| 9 | As she hurried down a long corridor , her mind groped backwards over the events of the previous night . |
| 10 | ALL OUR YESTERDAYS : Fifty years on the American Flag flies again over the Churchill Hospital in Oxford … just for today . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Jenny 's laugh came lightly over the line . |
| 13 | The trooper climbed reluctantly over the handrail and then lowered himself onto the supporting props below . |
| 14 | When a pilot activates his reversers , he also pours on the power to create reverse thrust , to have the blast from the jet engine going forward over the wings instead of backwards . |
| 15 | Furthermore the wind had dropped , the sun shone brilliantly over the ice , and already , early in the morning , small boys were sliding through the radiant air , whooping and hallooing , and sending broken boughs skidding across the frozen surface with a hollow , reverberating whoosh . |
| 16 | In Munich , the Stalingrad disaster prompted the group of students who , largely inspired by moral and religious idealism , had the previous year formed the ‘ White Rose ’ movement and circulated anti-Nazi leaflets in Munich University , to stage a suicidally brave public demonstration of their detestation for Hitler and Nazism in a defiant manifesto displayed all over the university buildings : |
| 17 | On reconnaissance nights , the submarine had to use precious hours of moonless darkness while she charged her batteries before trimming down in the water with her saddle-tanks just awash , the slight swell breaking occasionally over the casing . |
| 18 | When the hedgehog travels furtively over the lawn , |
| 19 | The main myth being punctured , or punctuated , is the old erroneous view that humanity evolved gradually over the aeons from an ape forebear . |
| 20 | The wallet-sized Portfolio weighs just over a pound , yet opens out to reveal a qwerty keyboard and an eight line by 40 column display . |
| 21 | The brown paper bag tied with white string hit the pavement , split and corn went all over the place . |
| 22 | Her tilted smile put the usual dent , something just less than a dimple , at the corner of her mouth as she pulled on a robe bought only three days previously , sumptuous emerald silk with an elaborate multicoloured dragon embroidered all over the back . |
| 23 | The complexities proved to be even greater than expected , particularly since the rate of claim for compensation increased considerably over the years up to the setting up of the committee . |
| 24 | Last but by no means least , the Human Rights Sub-Committee under the chairmanship of has done an enormous amount of work on behalf of lawyers in countries where the rule of law remains somewhere over the rainbow . |
| 25 | The reaction that thriller writer Derek Raymond received for his most recent novel , I Was Dora Suarez , was disconcerting in the extreme : his editor vomited all over the fist chapter . |
| 26 | The Forestry Commission at the Royal Showground are very interested in this extra income but have yet to ascertain the extra benefits of limited disease control and the natural organic fertiliser spread evenly over the woodland . |
| 27 | Jackie Gardner takes exhibits to horticultural shows all over the country and the nursery has just picked up a Gold Medal at Chelsea . |
| 28 | ‘ Ca n't read a sodding map , gets his human body splattered all over the street , then takes off without a by your leave or kiss my elbow . |
| 29 | Cissie was kneeling on the rug , her back to the fire and her slim body bent forward over the bath . |
| 30 | Such investigators as Rowntree , A. L. Bowley and L. Chiozza Money demonstrated that the disparity between rich and poor and the proportion of the population living in severe poverty changed little over the period . |