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 | She stood up and clambered clumsily over the fallen rocks towards where Klift had been standing . |
| 4 | She forbade him to accompany her beyond the door and walked alone over the golden sand past the flower-beds to the gate . |
| 5 | The engine was built at Swindon in 1929 and worked all over the Great Western before withdrawal in 1964 . |
| 6 | Finally we sat in the hide open to the general public and looked out over the wide expanse of water at Low Ellers . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ When we pulled out of Jaffa , I stood on the stern and looked out over the old city , ’ he said . |
| 9 | She stood up , stretched , then moved to the window and looked out over the busy concourse . |
| 10 | He could hear her barking and looked down over the steep side of the embankment to the bottom of the trees . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |