Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The song was bellowing out over the din of the battle . |
| 2 | This was performed by radiolabelling the food and monitoring its reflux with a small directional gamma detector , which was placed externally over the oesophagus , and connected to an ambulatory data recorder . |
| 3 | There was a rather stagy photograph of the man who 'd written the article casting on a shingle beach ; in a companion photo , he 'd set up a three-rod line and was gazing mistily over the breakers . |
| 4 | The cassock had a thin hood , held in place over the attendant 's head and face by what looked like the brim from an old and worn red hat ; it was squeezed down over the attendant 's head , the top of the hood showing through where the hat 's crown should have been . |
| 5 | As fast as FAX and having user groups for just about every computer and software product around , it is becoming one of the main channels for passing information around the scientific community for example , much of the debate on Cold Fusion was carried out over the Internet . |
| 6 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 7 | Campari was cascading silently over the rim of her glass , and dripping in a slow red trickle from the table to the patio . |
| 8 | The dried blood from my nose was smeared all over the front of my mouth and it cracked when I tried to move my lips . |
| 9 | By 1800 the new Shorthorn was Britain 's tallest breed , the bulls standing 152cm at the withers ; the famous Durham Ox was 165cm tall and weighed 3,024 pounds as a five-year-old in 1801 when it was exhibited all over the country , remaining a star travelling showpiece until it dislocated its hip in 1807 . |
| 10 | She wore a matching crepe dress , which draped across her large bosom and red neck , and a mink stole was hung negligently over the back of her chair . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The special school sector was built up over a century or more . |
| 13 | At other points the road was built out over the river , at one point over the top of former pilchard cellars , still to be seen . |
| 14 | He heard again the noise of doors opening , voices , saw a light streaming across the street , and he was scrambling frantically over the bomb-site , tripping over a pile of rubble , tearing his coat on a fence , and running down the shockingly open street , running for his life . |
| 15 | One minute he was busking away on the cabaret circuit , the next he was on late-night TV , and then suddenly he was grinning all over the tabloids . |
| 16 | An Iranian airliner was shot down over the Gulf by a missile from a US cruiser in 1988 , killing 290 people . |
| 17 | In May 1960 more talks began at leaders ' levels in Paris , with Eisenhower anxious to play the role of peacemaker in his last year in office , but the conference collapsed when a US spy aircraft was shot down over the USSR . |
| 18 | He returned for five days in November 1991 when Selena Scott made a TV film A Prince Among Islands , which was shown all over the world . |
| 19 | Yeah , but it was pouring all over the forecourt . |
| 20 | But the skies were darkening and the rain was pouring down over the fields . |
| 21 | It turned out he was paying well over the odds . |
| 22 | This man was peering winningly over the rampart . |
| 23 | And he must have been testin' in part fur flight refuellin' because Rodriguez says in his book he was refuelled somewhere over the Bellingshausen Sea , which is a long way west of the area where Sunderby lost his life . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I thought he was going well over the top , actually . |
| 26 | That pattern was duplicated all over the subcontinent . |
| 27 | and Mrs was born in over the river . |
| 28 | However the cry was raised all over the floor : " They 've removed their team leader " Some thirty young dealers applauded the courage of these two . |
| 29 | As Colonel Windsor laid aside his pen , dawn was breaking murkily over the County Longford village of Granard , some 150 miles north of Cambridge Barracks . |
| 30 | The tree-branches creaked and the dry leaves rattled , for Baba Yaga was flying back over the trees in her pestle and mortar . |