Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He straightened up and gazed anxiously over the end of the bed at her . |
| 2 | Turning her head , Polly sipped her coffee and gazed out over the expanse of water . |
| 3 | Lissa wandered over to the window and gazed out over the expanse of carefully tended shrubbery that bordered the car park . |
| 4 | They did not immediately sit down , but leaned on the low parapet and gazed out over the river and the mountains , she with her head inclined towards his , he with a hand resting on her shoulder . |
| 5 | ‘ So am I. ’ Heather turned again to the opening and gazed hard over the fields to where the spirals of smoke were rising behind the bushes . |
| 6 | The longer upper tusks grow upwards through the skin and curve backwards over the eyes . |
| 7 | This way the lining stretches as easily as the knitted skirt and fits smoothly over the waist . |
| 8 | Fibrous tissue replaces this , the capillaries heal and contract down over a period of months to leave a linear scar . |
| 9 | Then he jumped on to his black horse , and rode off over the moor with the hounds running and crying around him . |
| 10 | Serves 4. 4 lamb steaks , about 675g ( 1½ lb ) 4 garlic cloves , skinned and crushed 3 tbs extra virgin olive oil 450ml ( ¾ pint ) dry cider 225g ( 8oz ) trimmed leek 100g ( 4oz ) potato 25g ( 1oz ) spinach and parsley , mixed 4 tbs single cream or low-fat fromage frais Crush garlic and rub well over the lamb . |
| 11 | Mix the herbs into the softened butter and rub all over the lamb . |
| 12 | After his death his empire could barely be sustained by the new rulers ( including Charles the Bald and Charles the Fat — is it possible to hold an empire together when the populace is taking the mickey out of you to that extent ? ) and crumbled away over a period of two centuries . |
| 13 | I cut off the path proper and charged up over a dune and down its other side to where the service pipe carrying the water and electricity to the house appears out of the sand and crosses the creek . |
| 14 | The contents of all of them had been pulled out and scattered all over the floor . |
| 15 | The Soviet statistics were terribly messy and scattered all over the place but Davies and Barker finally succeeded in teasing them out and knocking them into some sort of shape . |
| 16 | Or you can simply sabotage the thing by coughing loudly and exploding all over the place and then of course they simply ca n't use it . |
| 17 | The arm uncurled onto Richard 's chest and moved there over the nipples and down onto the tensing stomach . |
| 18 | But the elephants went gaily dancing and trumpeting away over the mountains , through Roumania and Georgia , through Turkey , Iran , and Afghanistan , until they came to their native land . |
| 19 | A wind was gathering at the coast , preparing to sweep across the fields , lean against the few trees and race on over the road , across to the far side of the island . |
| 20 | He stands and looks out over the lights of London . |
| 21 | Defries and Ace crawled up to a hollow , and peered cautiously over the lip . |
| 22 | Modelled here by Adele Curry , a student at the Blackpool and Flyde College of Hair and Beauty , the amazing creation which took two weeks to complete and stands well over a foot high is in celebration of Blackpool Tower 's £13 million transformation into Tower World . |
| 23 | Her heart felt amazingly light , and she knew it was because of Tom and the way they were talking and laughing together over the morning 's task . |
| 24 | There 's no way that a farrier can shoe a horse that is so angry or frightened that it is rearing and leaping all over the place . |
| 25 | What has changed , and changed radically over the period from the late 1960s to the early 1980s , has been the perception of that culture . |
| 26 | Bakhramov 's opinion that an extra-time shot by Geoff Hurst had hit the underside of the crossbar and bounced down over the goal-line prompted Swiss referee Gottfried Dienst to allow the goal which gave England a 3–2 lead . |
| 27 | Montreal is an unusual city , made up of 50 villages which have grown and merged together over the years to form the modern conurbation : about 100 square kilometres in size ( 60 square miles ) , encircled by the St. Lawrence River . |
| 28 | The aim of Heidrick and Struggles ' approach is to build a team that can truly work and integrate together over a number of years . |
| 29 | Now , as a new year begins , will you help Save the Children to continue providing care and support all over the world ? |
| 30 | As he spoke a dark pool of blood began to gather under the luxuriant mane of Harriet 's auburn hair which had escaped from the loosened snood and spread slowly over the ground . |