Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This telephone call made me think back over the years .
2 ‘ Four of them got together over a couple of decanters of port and I listened to what I could .
3 Now I realized how over the centuries this window must have provided an incomparable panorama of the goings-on in the village .
4 That 'll be lovely , I say politely over the telephone , do come round , it 'll be nice to see you .
5 From the inner-city I steer shakily over the Liffey and through the cobbled streets and mixed primary colours of old Dublin , through a wide stretch of bleak , bland suburbs and onto a motorway .
6 I waded out over the shallows until I came to them , and gathered the ones I could , looking up from my harvest as Esmerelda and kite struck out for the North Sea .
7 In an attempt to retrieve it gracefully , I did a half turn ; the backs of my knees hit the arm of one of a pair of chairs and I toppled backwards over the chair and landed on my hat , wedged between the chairs with my legs in the air .
8 ‘ The Faskally boatman brought me across the foot of the loch and I came straight over the hill to the Brig of Grandtully . ’
9 I walk quietly over the patio , onto the grass and towards the house , just waiting for the blaze of light from the security lamps .
10 I hear a clattering in the air as McDunn gets out of the Jag and I look up over the trees into high , bright overcast .
11 When I look back over the years I see impatience as the great sin of life .
12 I clambered back over the wall , crossed the orchard and , as usual , entered H.Q by the back door .
13 I 've been bald from a very early age , but I happen to be in the hairdressing industry and I travel all over the world teaching .
14 I lit up a Rothmans as I walked jerkily over the park , shivering , the cigarette rushed to my head and I felt better as I drew on it strongly , cupping the end in the palm of my grubby hand .
15 After work the same evening , my husband and I walked all over the golf course and were eventually rewarded by spotting the dog in the distance , although we failed to coax her towards us .
16 I stepped carefully over the city wall , which was less than a metre high , and walked slowly through the two main streets .
17 I stared out over the crowd .
18 There the colonnade was wider and the slender arches more open ; standing in the deep shade , I looked out over the tree-tops and the sea to the languishing ash-lilac mountains … a déjà vu feeling of having stood in the same place , before that particular proportion of the arches , that particular contrast of shade and burning landscape outside — I could n't say .
19 And when I thought back over the conversation , I realised that it was an extremely unlikely thing to have happened .
20 I thought back over the times I had watched the ploughing ; in late autumn at the potato harvest , and in the summer , slopping through the flooded paddy fields .
21 ‘ Things are obviously becoming very busy and I went in over the weekend to do a bit of work .
22 I went totally over the limit .
23 Consequently , I fell straight over a bench , + bruised my skin nastily .
24 No , I think probably over the years every avenue , other than perhaps this one , has been exploited to the full .
25 ‘ Well , Doc , I do normally but I did n't over the weekend . ’
26 Charlie 'd said he wanted to phone Lilian and when I come back over the road he was in a phone box .
27 What 's worse … when I travelled all over the lane ,
28 I pondered hard over the reply to my friend 's question .
29 The men it was meant for now rush into the road in front of her , one of them vaulting straight over the taxi bonnet as Rainbow bangs on the brakes .
30 But I wanted to do them because they give very good training and will let me work all over the world .
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