Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [v-ing] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slate we wanted to produce we want , you know if there a lot a bit of waste going over the tip , we were n't so much worried bout the waste , cos we was on the bonus we were making the slates and that . |
| 2 | Sprawled on his back on the deck , he lay exhausted under a waterfall of waves breaking over the cabin top . |
| 3 | I do n't think either , given the succession of scandals and the aura of sleaze hanging over the Secretary of State 's quango sector that anyone would deny that in terms of value for money and financial probity , direct democratic control is a far better watchdog than the financial control systems of the Welsh office . |
| 4 | Soon after , he checked out in Vegas , the suspicion of murder hovering over the coroner 's report . |
| 5 | Outside there was the sound of wheels crunching over the snow and the creaking of a cart . |
| 6 | If an owl swoops down on the kangaroo rat , the kangaroo rat is alerted by the sound of wind passing over the bird 's wings and can evade the grasping talons . |
| 7 | However , Mr Palmer said that a constant video of cars passing over the Severn Bridge at the time , showed no Renault 25 . |
| 8 | There should n't have been a cattle herd of feet trampling over the grass . |
| 9 | Only she could see him , a gash of red streaking over the pasture . |
| 10 | In her chamber , her naked sexuality is like a flickering tongue of flame playing over the body of her lover . |
| 11 | Apart from ice-skating and hockey in my youth , I was not keen on participating in sport , but the sight of skiers gliding over the unmarked hills of newly fallen snow was enticing ; so when the actor Jack Bowdry invited me to have a go at the ski-run atop Grouse Mountain , across the inlet from Vancouver , I agreed with alacrity . |
| 12 | But the reward for setting off early is the sight of dawn breaking over the South Rim and spilling into the Canyon . |
| 13 | Economics and geography could be altered by human , at least European , agency : ‘ Reversing the trend of people going over the border is the long-term objective ’ ( whose objective — whether that of the World Bank , of Britain , of other unnamed financial interests , or even perhaps of the Lesothans themselves — is left unclear ) . |
| 14 | Sitting alone in that darkened little room , I could sense the shadow of death lying over the hospital as tangibly as I could see the shadows of night in the corners of the room and outside the window . |
| 15 | The economist 's Utopian dream of a rural railway without station staff , platelayers and expensive signalling staff came closer with the introduction of radio signalling over the Far North lines from Inverness . |
| 16 | A huge operation swung into action after a fire at a Cheshire chemical factory sent a cloud of gases drifting over the area . |
| 17 | In two large strides the Trunchbull was behind Eric 's desk , and there she stood , a pillar of doom towering over the helpless boy . |
| 18 | Er , now the county really ought to look at this problem of grass growing over the pavement but the Cou Borough Council are using the shields that are not capable of cutting grass edges , grass verges . |