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

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1 They had reached the further side of the field during this animated discussion and Meredith hopped nimbly over the gate with twice the speed and dexterity with which she had negotiated the stile .
2 It was built by Francis Smallman , whose initials and those of his wife Ellen appear all over the plasterwork ceilings .
3 ‘ God , though , it 's tempting , ’ William says , leaning back and letting Andy crane out over the pyramid of glasses again .
4 THE RUC and West Belfast MP Dr Joe Hendron clashed today over the level of effort by the security forces to combat loyalist terrorism .
5 Andy and William are standing on a seat ; Andy leans out over a table laden with glasses , a champagne bottle in one hand and his other arm held by William , who leans out the opposite way to balance him .
6 Is that a miniature Stonehenge hovering symbolically over the stage ?
7 Visual illusions are an excellent illustration , in fact , of the division between a specialized and autonomous mechanism for seeing and the cognitive system which determines whether we should believe what we see , as Helmholtz pointed out over a century ago .
8 They had been inside no more than thirty seconds , Bienvida trembling all over the way she did from terror and excitement , when they heard the voices of Peter , Tom and Alice , as these three people crossed the hall and went upstairs together .
9 Roman drove steadily over the causeway and she looked apprehensively at the expanse of sea on either side .
10 Officially , Spain starts just over the top , but this is a Spanish landscape , dry and rough compared with most of what you see on the wetter , French side of the mountains .
11 David Swan fell backwards over a chair , clutching his knee in agony .
12 DEC paid well over the odds for the shares — Olivetti says that 28.53m shares were sold to DEC at 4,547.4 lire per share , which compared with a lowly 1,340 lire price in the market at the time of the transaction .
13 Endill peered slowly over the edge of it .
14 A delicious smell of casseroled chicken , heavy with herbs and garlic , hung in the air as Ace bent professionally over the oven .
15 An elegant BMW drew up over the road and Fatimah Bankhead , the chain-smoking Islamic feminist , stepped out .
16 That has given momentum to the rumour that Merson and Graham clashed verbally over the player 's weight on Monday .
17 Rory leaned forward over the table , closer to his brother .
18 As the Waaagh roamed freely over the Worlds Edge Mountains it was joined by multitudes of Goblins including the Night Goblin tribes of Red Eye Mountain and many Forest Goblin tribes from the Great Forest .
19 Kynaston stepped gingerly over the carpet to Harry , prancing on tiptoe like an inexpert dancer .
20 Seconds later , Larsen tumbled breathlessly over the edge of the stone coping , helped by a strong one-handed pull on his collar from Grant .
21 He said that looking out from the platform towards the town reminded him of the late President Kennedy looking out over the Berlin Wall .
22 I wonder if it will catch on here , and fantasise about enormous Khat raves all over the country : ‘ Mastication — featuring DJ Chewing Tunes and MC Yorker , 100K lasers , 60K sound system , gyroscopes , brain machines , Yemeni massage and solid silver spittoons . ’
23 The ghost of Shostakovich hangs heavily over the Cello Concerto , although the Sixth Symphony , with its barrenpointed landscapes clearly points more in the direction of Kancheli .
24 The Glosters served all over the world and we sample life in India during the 1930s .
25 Armed only with a sketchbook , Olwen travels all over the country in search of botanical gardens and interesting conservatories .
26 Angrily Paige leant forward over the table .
27 Sam looked out over the flooding river and breathed in the damp smell of the morning as if testing wine for bouquet , and I thought that he lived through his senses to a much greater degree than I did and was intensely alive in his direct approach to sex and his disregard of danger .
28 Tabitha leaned out over the railing .
29 After ten minutes , Callaghan peered wretchedly over the rim of the crater .
30 Since leaving South Morecambe , Colin has been manager responsible for CCG projects all over the country , as far as Hull , Peterhead , Essex , Nottingham and Lincoln .
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