Example sentences of "walk over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I was looking for drugs and walking over the aerosol cans .
2 In less sophisticated times , people searching for minerals picked up clues simply by walking over the ground and examining it visually .
3 A man had been walking over the ground outside .
4 On the other hand , it 's also like walking over the end of a plug-hole .
5 Then a reminder of the tragedy came during World War I when a Polish soldier was walking over the bridge one starlit night when he saw the wraith of a man dancing on the parapet .
6 He had gone up to Magdalen College , asked at the Porters ' Lodge , discovered the grounds were closed ; then just carried on walking over the bridge , around the Plain , and back again down the High .
7 Hundreds of miners from the western valleys were walking over the hill to the stricken village .
8 but the strong impression I had is walking over the hill from Kettleborough where the gun club now is walking down into this valley and seeing that view of this little end of the village nestling in the hollow and I can remember feeling a extraordinarily strong sensation that I could easily live there
9 So people walk over the racecourse , do they ?
10 Had she known what was in store , Ruth thought afterwards , she would have begged to walk over the top with the horse .
11 Having obtained permission to walk over the land , a group of people divide the area between them ( usually in the squares of a grid marked out in some way on the ground ) , and each person collects and records any finds in their particular area .
12 He had his time-proven tests for this : one was simply to walk over the land and to ‘ feel it through his boots ’ , ; then again he would take up a handful of soil , carefully crumbling it to test it ; or he would bend down and draw his fist backwards through the soil .
13 She was too tired now to walk over the moor but she would set off first thing in the morning .
14 From Tekek , it 's possible to walk over the island to Juara village .
15 Peter stepped down from the boat , and walked over the water towards Jesus .
16 We say Lake Rotoroa several thousand feet below , walked over the lip of a long , smooth slope and were suddenly back among trees .
17 However , I want to ask the name of the man who walked over the child . ’
18 ‘ And the clouds came down , and we lost the path , and we almost walked over the top of a thousand-metre cliff , and … ’
19 Oh you walked up , you walked over the hill ?
20 Yanto was deep in thought as he walked over the canal bridge that evening .
21 In the nineteenth century , Swinburne , having been thrown out of his local , the Green Man , on the west side of Putney Hill , walked over the common to the Rose and Thorn ‘ where , according to a letter of Watts Dunton , he drank eight pints of strong ale and was violently sick over the landlord 's daughter , a woman called Henrietta Luce who later married a distant relative of Trollope 's .
22 Then my father must have answered the buzzer in the house , because Diggs stooped slightly and talked into the grille beside the button , and then pushed the gate open and walked over the bridge , on to the island and down the path towards the house .
23 Get there early — at least one hour before you expect to see the badgers — and do n't walk over the sett or across the entrances .
24 He used to go He came up when he would go from Blair and he would come up our glen and he would maybe walk over the hill to Braemar , or over the hill to Clover I suppose .
25 And the abbots used to come up and then they would stay and have their meal in Kilray down at what they called the aiden or the tavern , and then they would walk over the hill of Kilray right up until they came to Dalvaine .
26 He says he 's does n't know if his legs will stand it when he walks over the lip .
27 The dowser uses some kind of indicator , such as a twig , metal rods , or a pendulum to show the presence or absence of archaeological features as the dowser walks over the ground .
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