Example sentences of "and [vb past] [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 | Then he jumped on to his black horse , and rode off over the moor with the hounds running and crying around him . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The arm uncurled onto Richard 's chest and moved there over the nipples and down onto the tensing stomach . |
| 10 | Defries and Ace crawled up to a hollow , and peered cautiously over the lip . |
| 11 | What has changed , and changed radically over the period from the late 1960s to the early 1980s , has been the perception of that culture . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Stamping their hopelessly outsize boots , they trudged in single file out of the gutted , white-stone church and slogged off over a ditch away from the barricade . |
| 14 | In addition the epicuticle may include a superficial lipid layer ( Lockey , 1960 ) covered by a protective cement layer of unknown composition ; the cement layer is secreted by epidermal glands and poured out over the surface . |
| 15 | On my perch , arms wrapped tightly round the shrouds , I was alternately laid back over the deck and thrust out over the water . |
| 16 | Geoffrey Wilkinson 's deputy was Peter Bardon who joined the RAF soon after the Second World War and served all over the world , particularly in the Far East . |
| 17 | Nails bit his tongue and slithered all over the place . |
| 18 | And yet she held her breath as she leaned out from the cover of the first-floor corridor , and hung cautiously over the oak rail . |
| 19 | Then he took his hands from the organ and looked all over the keyboard as if to make quite sure that all the keys and stops were there . |
| 20 | There was no answer to that , so Charles sat and looked out over the water to Steen 's bungalow . |
| 21 | At midday we climbed the minaret and looked out over the rooftops of Cairo , stretching like a vast uneven plain from the Moqqatam Hills to the tall modern buildings along the river . |
| 22 | He forced open his windows and looked out over the courtyard , over the town to where what he now knew as Skiddaw stood in dusky largeness , a prehistoric beast couchant . |
| 23 | She took her hand away , leaned on the rail and looked out over the sea . |
| 24 | Their bedroom was in the front of the house and looked out over the sea , a vast expanse of blue , sparkling in early morning sunshine . |
| 25 | He moved again to the eastern window and looked out over the cottages of the headland . |
| 26 | I scrambled to the top and looked out over the sand and rocks to where Paul stood , a tiny figure against the reflected brightness of the pools and wet sands , overshadowed by the tilted cone of metal beside him . |
| 27 | They stopped on the promenade at Cultra and looked out over the blackness of Belfast Lough , alive with twinkling lights . |
| 28 | He stood at a window and looked down over the trees , where rooks were crossing sticks in a light sway of air . |
| 29 | Surere had managed to obtain a wig that rose high on the crown and fell heavily over the back and shoulders . |
| 30 | During a healing session , scads of reddish-brown aromatic powder ( ‘ just like savoury mixed spice ’ , says Boltwood prosaically ) , suddenly appeared from his fingertips , and sprayed all over the stage and the people sitting nearby . |