Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heir to the throne , a shy , sensitive boy , was often held upside down over the lavatory by schoolmates who delighted in pulling the chain . |
| 2 | He would be able to stretch his legs out over the end . |
| 3 | We shook hands on the deal and I grabbed the handles and began to push my first cock sparrow back over the bridge towards the Whitechapel Road . |
| 4 | He moved away from her and swung his legs back over the side of the bed . |
| 5 | The windows are open to the night , spilling the sound of the pretenders ' first album out over the slope of grass towards the small loch and the lights of the library and Admin buildings on the far side . |
| 6 | It was done in fact by a brilliant military er tactic er and indeed the Americans succeeded in throwing the North Koreans back over the Yalob the river Yalob So up to that point limited force had been used to achieve a political objective , the objective was to s s to erm contain communism wherever communism looked like spilling over into other countries , non-communist countries . |
| 7 | Verily , these people are set upon pushing the noise boat out over the horizon until it arrives … somewhere . |
| 8 | The technique of panning , therefore , is to cause the gold to sink in the pan by jiggling it about and washing the gold-free surface gravel out over the rim of the pan . |
| 9 | Henry cast his mind back over the evening . |
| 10 | The transmission faded and he frowned , casting his mind back over the conversation . |
| 11 | These rich passenger vessels , if that is what they are , have a high prow and a relatively low stern ; a carved representation of a leopard or lioness stretches and peers out over the stern . |
| 12 | ‘ Nothing too personal , I suppose , but he was throwing his weight about over the steps at the old people 's place . ’ |
| 13 | Nevertheless he seemed willing enough to accompany the Finnish detective in the dangerous climb down over the tumbling rocks to where his cousin and his cousin 's pretty , peroxided fiancée lay . |
| 14 | They intend to cross the island and gaze out over the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 15 | He woke First Man and made him eat , too and ‘ Adam ’ threw the apple core out over the crowd 's heads . |
| 16 | When I fly out from the nest over the moors to its great and awesome cliff and gyre on the winds out over the sea then can I call myself a Wrath eagle . ’ |
| 17 | They put something like 30,000 Chinese refugees back over the border each year and it was a custom of international law that such immigrants are received back , she said . |
| 18 | And this policeman , I were coming down Lane off over the hump back bridge . |
| 19 | A successful £13.1m rights issue in January this year helped offset the £14.2m spent on acquisitions designed to focus the business on over the counter products which now comprise 25pc of group turnover . |
| 20 | We asked BBC producer and presenter Mike Edgar to pinpoint ten new Northern acts who 'd be worth keeping an eye on over the coming year . |
| 21 | Caroline tugged at the thin straps that held the red silk up over the generous curve of her breasts , then smoothed down the skirt as if her touch might somehow magically make it extend beyond her thighs . |
| 22 | A cheery bing-bong-a new addition , the kind of chime you hear in airports-peals out over the PA system . |
| 23 | I estimated that perhaps fifteen minutes ' fishing would salve my honour , and not expecting to catch anything , I let the wind flag my flies out over the water . |
| 24 | He raised the tip of the rod , and gave the slightest flick of his wrist , swinging the line in a smooth curve out over the water . |
| 25 | 3 Tightly roll the pastry up over the almond filling . |
| 26 | It then took the rest of the century to get my leather jacket on over the plaster . |
| 27 | ‘ So we 'll keep the long stuff down over the season and see what flowers come up . ’ |
| 28 | From Gourette you can continue to climb , bending now sharply to the left on the way up to the Col d'Aubisque , though pausing above Gourette at a viewpoint called the Crêtes Blanches , where there is a hotel and , more to the point , a wonderful view back down over the ski village in its cirque as well as westwards to the peaks on the far side of the Ossau valley . |
| 29 | A row erupted at a council meeting over the issue this when Sefton 's chief executive Graham Haywood urged councillors to back down over the strict conditions . |
| 30 | The way he stood , I remarked to the Reverend Feather , the way he bowed his head down over the loss of your mother , Stephen . |