Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv prt] over the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the death of Tito in 1980 , and with the growing economic crisis , which is felt by Serbians to have particularly affected them ( although there is , in fact , little evidence that Serbia 's relative position has fallen in comparison with Yugoslavia as a whole ) , a growing number of Serb intellectuals have been looking back over the past and asking themselves whether Serbia was discriminated against under ‘ Titoist ’ rule . |
| 2 | A long , narrow band of cloud has been moving down over the country and will continue to do so throughout the night before it moves away eastwards tomorrow , being replaced by clear skies to the west . |
| 3 | She saw the building that Adolph Brückner had looked at on his arrival that day , the pain in his head threatening like the thunder clouds that were drifting back over the mountain tops . |
| 4 | These little buildings were spreading out over the savannah in a game of checkers , with the goal of linking all the pieces into a chain of sound administration . |
| 5 | Black clouds were rolling up over the forest to his right , which now looked hostile , as though it were waiting for him to make a false move ; to tall perhaps , so that it could advance and swallow him , like a wild animal . |
| 6 | The song was bellowing out over the din of the battle . |
| 7 | He was looking out over the prison courtyard , watching the sheets of rain falling , the brightness of the observation lights along the prison walls reflecting in his eyes . |
| 8 | So I flipped some cattle from the farm of and right between Egilsay and Rousay just a short distance , oh maybe a quarter of a miles or thereby , and oh did the shipping perfectly well and and went home and by the time I got home the message had arrived back before me that the there were two old cattle among the younger ones that the fellow had put there just to feed up and the last we saw of them was going up over the island and that was okay we thought everything was okay . |
| 9 | The blade was going in to its hilt , in , and in again , and the blood was spreading out over the priest 's hairless chest . |
| 10 | Dusk was drifting in over the park , covering the snow in gritty grey shadows , bringing the houses around the park alight almost simultaneously . |
| 11 | They ran side by side , easy with training , breathless only with amazement , and now the sun was coming up over the edge of the sea and the whole world was sharp and glittery , concrete and weeds , and the barbed wire hanging drops of dew and spiders ' webs . |
| 12 | A thick , gold moon was coming up over the sea , glittering on the roofs of the town below them . |
| 13 | Worst part was swinging out over the water — the only way to get into this Fort Knox of a Marina — clutching the slithery pole — trying not to shout ‘ Help ! ’ — leg splayed out over the harbour all murky and oily below … |
| 14 | Fog was creeping in over the island and in the distance the deep boom of a foghorn sounded , echoing her own sudden melancholy . |