Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [vb pp] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said nothing about the road being blocked behind us , or the man he had flushed out of the mist-shrouded mountainside and forced over the edge into the gorge below . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've put Mr Trumper 's things in the bedroom and checked over the flat . |
| 3 | The noose was tied around his neck and strung over the beam . |
| 4 | ‘ Mervyn had suggested we should make the Dalek transport machines out of cardboard tubes — sprayed silver and fitted over a person 's legs . |
| 5 | The white blanket rolled down the hillside and lapped over the roofs of the dwelling and outbuildings of the little farm . |
| 6 | The cloth is then carefully spread over the board and folded over the back , overlapping by about one inch . |
| 7 | Above that a heavy mantle is wrapped all round the body and brought over the head . |
| 8 | He had returned his father 's shirt and now wore his own vest , washed in the tin bath and dried over the kitchen pipes . |
| 9 | The rain was impregnated with a special fluorescent paint and blown over the car . |
| 10 | He fired his pistol in the air and charged over the top as if he were chasing some errant fox . |
| 11 | I was spellbound by the brass bedstead and all the knick-knacks , but what held my attention most were the knitted bedspreads that were on the bed and draped over the chairs . |
| 12 | Any piece of rotten meat that could still be found in the enclave was slipped over an improvised fish hook , attached to a rope and hurled over the parapet in the vain hope of catching a jackal or a pariah dog that might swallow it . |
| 13 | The Doctor wet his grimy hanky and fussed over the wound . |
| 14 | You could see little footsteps where next-door 's cat had crossed the garden and gone over the fence . |
| 15 | She watched him through her fingers as he went down the garden and bent over the hole . |
| 16 | No , our Jacko had thrown a wobbler and gone over the wall . |
| 17 | To give a suitably ‘ thick ’ appearance to the painted plaster surface applied over the new brickwork of the chimney , ‘ Sirapite ’ plaster was mixed with wallpaper paste and smeared over the overprecise profiles of the new work . |
| 18 | Blend two teaspoons of mild mustard with one teaspoon of butter and spread over the toast . |
| 19 | He took the candle from the table and bent over the fireplace , setting the twigs ablaze . |