Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun sg] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They chucked the peach stones over the parapet so that peach trees would grow in the garden next year and surprise everyone . |
| 2 | On 9 April 1946 , he demonstrated car 303 on the Marton route after the regular service had finished , to members of the press who described the riding qualities over the disintegrating track as ‘ sensational ’ . |
| 3 | With medieval courtesy , the recipient dropped a thank-you note over the donor 's base . |
| 4 | At an auspicious moment the groom threw a gold chain over the bride 's neck and presented her with a wedding dress and jewels . |
| 5 | At last , satisfied , he went to the sink and washed his hands , then came back and threw a muslin cloth over the board and its bloodied contents . |
| 6 | Fred was thin , Arthur very fat , and Fred 's head made a pecking movement over the bulk of his friend with the effort of bearing the load . |
| 7 | What she got a breakfast session over the |
| 8 | A second survey covered Northern Ireland at a similar density ( Applied Geochemistry Research Group , 1973 ) and revealed an arsenic anomaly over the Sperrin Mountains where the Curraghinalt gold deposit was later found . |
| 9 | As they passed an STM tip over the surface they applied short bursts of alternating voltage , a few milliseconds long and slightly more than 1.5 volts in amplitude , over particular atoms . |
| 10 | Philip pulled the camouflage net over the entrance . |
| 11 | For the first time since the process of unification began it placed a question mark over the future of Kohl , who had made 14 campaign appearances and admitted that the result represented a " bitter defeat " . |
| 12 | It was already nightfall when Whitlock crossed the Heuss Bridge over the Rhine and turned the Golf Corbio into Rampenstrasse , his eyes screwed up behind his tinted glasses as he tried to distinguish the numbers , many of them faded and indistinct , on the rows of warehouses lining the river bank . |
| 13 | I saw the glass case over the mantle , filled . |
| 14 | Check for colour arrangement , select the fabric and then lay the nylon panels over the plan using the bias and ensuring that the ripstop squares are symmetrical on each half of the kite . |
| 15 | Now in the care of a young Englishman , Jonathan Pease , at Chantilly , Golden Pheasant inflicted Nashwan 's only defeat when he took the Prix Niel over the Arc course and distance three weeks ago and , being lightly raced , he looks capable of improvement . |
| 16 | A plaintiff once brought a defamation action over the allegation that he was a highwaym . |
| 17 | After she fell in love with Astrid , she became Dragonfly Moonchild , the world her oyster , and for the first time on the daily journey , she saw an adventure playground over the hoardings by the Elephant and Castle , and all the poles were painted like a carousel . |
| 18 | Nashwan won the Eclipse Stakes over the Champion Stakes distance at Sandown in July but was disappointing in the Group Two Prix Niel at Longchamp on his latest outing , finishing third to subsequent Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe flop Golden Pheasant . |
| 19 | The Heathite ministers effectively won the Cabinet debates over the public-spending round in the autumn of 1980 , but their victory was short-lived . |
| 20 | The outcome put a question mark over the long-term survival of the centre-left coalition which took power in March [ see p. 38821 ] with a strong commitment to constitutional reform . |
| 21 | I rattled the plastic cover over the Amstrad but it was firmly locked in place . |
| 22 | The unfortunate Capel Junior made a terrible hash of things and belted the ball yards over the bar . |
| 23 | FERRANTI 'S shares encountered hectic trading when they returned from suspension yesterday as a host of conflicting rumours swept the stock market over the company 's future . |
| 24 | A boy dangled a paper lantern over the dancers ' heads , a globe of pleated paper with a lit candle inside , bobbing at the end of a pole , a second moon . |