Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] over [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Ursula Berowne sat immobile in her sitting room on the fourth floor of 62 Campden Hill Square and gazed out over the top boughs of the plane trees as if at some far distant unseeable vista . |
| 2 | Rather than watch them go , I stayed by the sink and gazed out over the playing fields . |
| 3 | Dawn Run took the lead from the start and hopped nimbly over the first two fences . |
| 4 | Humpbacks , sperms and rorquals formed the basis of an extensive antarctic whaling industry , which began in 1904 at a single whaling station on South Georgia and expanded enormously over the next three decades , making use of both shore stations and pelagic fleets . |
| 5 | The costs will be in the region of £30,000 to £60,000 for full optical systems , but entry level systems for hypermedia , CD-ROM , WORM and videodisk technology can be obtained off-the-shelf at the moment , and built up over the next five to ten years . |
| 6 | The relative positions of the players changed and changed again over the second half and , as we waited on the eighteenth tee , Miguel had edged yet again one shot ahead of Jack . |
| 7 | Bank overdraft Flexible borrowing up to a certain ceiling for people with bank accounts , usually without security , and paid off over a few months , but can be extended over several years ; interest , calculated each day on how much the account is overdrawn that day , fluctuates in line with bank base rates ( usually about two per cent higher ) . |
| 8 | She stood up and clambered clumsily over the fallen rocks towards where Klift had been standing . |
| 9 | She forbade him to accompany her beyond the door and walked alone over the golden sand past the flower-beds to the gate . |
| 10 | The engine was built at Swindon in 1929 and worked all over the Great Western before withdrawal in 1964 . |
| 11 | Finally we sat in the hide open to the general public and looked out over the wide expanse of water at Low Ellers . |
| 12 | I turned and looked out over the slanted , foreshortened wedge of streets and stocky tenements , and for once the strain in my ears found the appropriate line , the right score . |
| 13 | ‘ When we pulled out of Jaffa , I stood on the stern and looked out over the old city , ’ he said . |
| 14 | She stood up , stretched , then moved to the window and looked out over the busy concourse . |
| 15 | He could hear her barking and looked down over the steep side of the embankment to the bottom of the trees . |
| 16 | Whirling like a miniature tornado past Lucenzo 's menacing bulk , she persuaded her legs to stop wobbling by sheer force of will and strode angrily over the deep snow to the nearest bus stop . |
| 17 | A more informative example is that of samian pottery , produced mainly in factories in France and Germany during the Roman period and exported all over the Roman Empire . |
| 18 | Every brook coming down from the heights was swollen into a torrent , every valley river gulped these tributaries into its heart , and burst out over the narrow meadows into languid shallows , while in the centre it rushed ahead with treacherous force . |
| 19 | This type of vessel seems to have originated in Urartu ( south of the Caspian ) , but it was imported and imitated all over the Near East and in Italy as well as Greece . |
| 20 | When we reached the farm the track ran out , so we had a word with the farmer , a friend of Brian 's , and set off over the open fields . |