Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] over [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Come and fill me in over a cup of coffee . ’ |
| 2 | The ascent on to the ridge evolves in easy stages , taking you up over a number of small , craggy knolls until you reach the commodious upper slopes of the Munro . |
| 3 | When an old issue of bonds is approaching maturity , the Bank of England will probably enter the market to buy them back over a number of weeks or months , rather than waiting to the maturity date and then suddenly releasing a large amount of liquidity into the economy . |
| 4 | Shiona eyed him challengingly over the bonnet of the car . |
| 5 | He wanted to hit him all over the face with his fists , to smash away his stupid smile , to stop him talking . |
| 6 | One large hand held her down over the back of the upright chair , so that the top of her head was pushed into the seat . |
| 7 | Like all the maidens , in all the stories , half seduced and half petrified , she consented to Fenna 's plans and he swept her high on his great wings and bore her away over the roofs of London and higher and higher cavorting and caracolling through the star-spun night . |
| 8 | Ian , 27 , broke his wrist when his Honda CBR 600 spat him off over the high-side during a race . |
| 9 | David Calvert-Smith , prosecuting , had alleged that Bartman attacked Lady Cross in the basement of the Anno Domini shop , beating her repeatedly over the head with two heavy fire irons . |
| 10 | Without warning he grabbed her tennis racquet — which she 'd been swinging so nonchalantly and grasping her by the scruff of the neck , pushed her roughly over the back of a chair . |
| 11 | I 've worked with him now over the course of four years , I know him backwards . |
| 12 | Naturally he wanted a top man to carry his bag , a man who knew St Andrews like the back of his hand — someone young and capable of clubbing him perfectly over the home of golf 's fickle links , no matter what the weather . |
| 13 | He looked up into her wide blue eyes which were scrutinising him intently over the mug of tea which she was holding with two hands . |
| 14 | In her panic , and to make sure he stayed unconscious , she hit him twice over the head with the base of the standard lamp . |
| 15 | He lifted his close-shaven muzzle and looked at her hard over the monitor of his reader . |
| 16 | ‘ No reason , ’ he said easily as he sipped his tea , his eyes watching her steadily over the rim of the mug . |
| 17 | Guido took a mouthful of his whisky , his eyes scanning her amusedly over the top of his glass . |
| 18 | He is conscious of Marjorie 's watery blue eyes scanning him speculatively over the rim of her teacup , inviting further discussion of Sandra , but he ca n't face it , not this morning , not with a day 's work ahead of him . |
| 19 | I guess he thought it safer to ask me there over the noise of the engine and in the babble of conversation than in some quiet spot alone , where we might be bugged . |
| 20 | Martin Fleischmann told me how over a whiskey in Pons ' kitchen he remarked , ‘ It 's a billion to one chance , shall we do it ? ’ and Pons replied , ‘ Let's have a go . ’ |
| 21 | Perhaps it was her own pride reawakening after all these weeks which prompted her to defy Luke 's distaste , albeit only after she was sure he was asleep , moving up close to his back again , lifting an arm and curving it loosely over the side of his body . |
| 22 | Any sort of boat could have been used to ferry a body to midstream and to put it gently over the side in darkness . |
| 23 | That way , they will search for it all over the universe before discovering it . ’ |
| 24 | They went to Waldegrave 's chamber and smeared it all over the tunic of our comatose priest . |
| 25 | You know how a man can say nothing and you hear it all over the house for weeks ? |
| 26 | He had turned to look at her , slipping off his coat as he did so and tossing it carelessly over the back of one of the armchairs . |
| 27 | ‘ We found a few , ’ he told her , answering her question about the mussels , pulling off his jacket as he did so and draping it carelessly over the back of the chair . |
| 28 | ‘ It would be useful , ’ he said , ‘ if practitioners were made aware of the information that is required from them so they can build it up over a period of time . ’ |
| 29 | But he got the ball near the left edge of the green , flicked it confidently over the bunker to about four feet and holed out with ease . |
| 30 | Hauser was talking again after removing his jacket , placing it carefully over the back of his chair . |